you should take notice of this jhh: I think he’s observing the fandom. He’s deliberately trying to rile people up. Check out his “Journal of Fandom Studies,“ his book forward (« Seeing Fans”) his inclusion in the book “Millennial Fandom” and so forth on his website. This is an area of study for him. And right now, he’s playing people – likely for fodder/research for a book or paper. He knows nothing.

I’ve heard about this book. I don’t know how legit it is, but if he really is writing and studying fandoms, I think it doesn’t have to mean that he’s playing us. When you are doing research on a subject for a book or a thesis or whatever, your goal is not to fuck with your subject, so to speak. You don’t twist facts or alter reality. You don’t provoke situations.
Fandom is a fascinating sociological subject to write about and I think only a real fan has the ability to write about it good, which he clearly is. I actually look forward to read that book!