Fans are supposed to love the things they love. So when did fandom become a harassment campaign?

In Episode 3 of Bits n Scripts, we go deep on one of the most important and least honest conversations in entertainment culture: toxic fandom. Not legitimate criticism we're not talking about that. We're talking about the organized, coordinated, monetized machine that has spent the last decade using the language of fandom to push something much uglier into mainstream entertainment discourse.

We start at the beginning. In 2014, GamerGate erupted as a coordinated harassment campaign targeting women in the gaming industry and researchers have since documented how it built the pipeline from gaming forums to far-right political radicalization. We trace the Breitbart connection, the Steve Bannon connection, and how a movement that started with  ...