About the fannish reading thing

[emmuzka]

redbrickrose pondered in her lj if the point of view in Fall Out Boy fandom would be a Pete Wentz default. I took this up from ethrosdemon to think about it. I post this also in my lj for you shall not waste Thinking Work.

So, about the FOB pov. I believe that even when the fans are quite free to generate their own view of the fandom subjects as characters, the subjects of the fannish love are capable to affect their fannish reading. What they say, what they choose not to say, who they kiss on stage… The fannish reading would be quite dull if one would accept only candid photos as “historical true documents” or something.

So okay, yes, Pete would be the pov in FOB fandom. (Or rather, the protagonist, because pov suggests that this would be a matter of a point f view in fan fiction and nothing else.) Let me tell you why I think this:

In real people fandoms, the subjects themselves are in key position in how they are perceived as characters. And if one of them, namely Pete Wentz is an over sharer? Then his view would be overly dominant. The fans would be more free to decide if they like *him* in the light of the facts about himself that he shares, but as he is the key information giver, the info about the other band mates are already more or less coloured by his opinions, giving the fans less room to decide by themselves if they like something or not.

I think that Pete might be an exception regarding the subjects' power to affect and morph the fannish reading. When counting in all his media presence and not just the official interviews and such, his presence is really disproportionally large. Not that this would be a bad thing, just that the fans will be reading about, let's say Patrick, not from hundreds of different sources with hundreds of pov's, but disproportionally, with 80% or something coming from Pete's pov.

- And, for the fannish purposes; could someone make a picture where the all damn bandom guys would be standing in a police line-up? I would like to see exactly how short or tall are they and how tall they are related to each other.
- Please someone tell me the names of FOB’s agent and publicist if they have them.