It was a rapture and a revelation all at the same time. En masse, celebrity stan accounts posted tearful farewells over the weekend as X was suspended in Brazil amid a showdown between Elon Musk and the country’s judiciary.
University students show their phone screens after social media platform X was blocked nationwide, in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. FILE - Actor Dianna Agron attends the Chanel Tribeca Festival luncheon to celebrate Through Her Lens: The Women’s Filmmaker Program on June 7, 2024, in New York.
An academic from Belo Horizonte, Sabrina Spolidorio has studied fansubbing — where devoted viewers come together to subtitle. She has a simple theory for why Brazilians are such engines of fandom, using a word that came up in interview after interview: Brazilians are just “passionate.” They’re also looking for a sense of belonging, she said.
“One of the reasons was I was always on the phone, always checking for content,” she told the AP. “It’s kind of like a drug, it seizes something in your brain. You want to be first to post it.” For CCXP, the suspension doesn’t pose much of a threat to the convention’s success. In a statement, vice president for content Beto Fabri said they’d already “focused on valuing and building relationships with the geek community” on WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook and their own platforms.
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