Beach Boys Fandom

What are you evaluating? Fandom. Specifically, your second assignment is to choose a single aspect/feature of fandom that you feel readers need to consider more carefully than they do now. Please use the fandom that you previously researched for our first essay. This individual feature should be an activity/behavior (e.g. cosplay, or the creation of fan fiction, or fan videos) or a defining characteristic. Your job is to make a claim about this feature/activity and then support it by establishing criteria for doing so. This means you are saying ____ is good/bad (except we are thinking more in terms of healthy or unhealthy, or empowering, or liberating, or dangerous, or misogynistic, or toxic- most of these terms are more “good” or more “bad” than not but being specific from the get-go will help guide your argument in a way that feels more urgent and driven). Requirements: A complete draft of your essay, 5 pages minimum, that clearly builds off of the template your first draft created.