Very interesting video not just for the headline content but for the exploration/preservation of fandom history.
As an older fan myself I hadn't quite understood or processed how and why fandom had shifted younger, across the board. In retrospect it's obvious that barrier for entry meant the only fandom members that were able to participate at all when I was first coming across it in the early 00s was that subgroup of people who had the will, technical know-how and disposable income to even set up the forums and online contribution spaces to participate in the discourse - none of that was existing infrastructure you could just enter and start talking in at the swipe of your finger like it is today.
It's important to preserve this kind of thing though as technology marches on and especially nowadays as bad faith actors and AI collaborate to try and retcon our actual real past in realtime.
