There’s beginning to be a glimmer of possibility as boomer leadership slowly fades away, the possibility of institutional revolution, and young people are hungry for influence. Even if any one particular personality platform or movement dissolves, the future of the visible church will be hashed out in private group chats and comment sections long before it becomes official policy at a presbytery or synod. Thirdly, internet circles develop a complex ecosystem of influential personalities who can become well-regarded within their niche for their contributions— or notorious for their failings, as the case may be. But there’s no official way to totally ban a voice unless you own the platform or run the server. Rarely can you successfully excommunicate somebody; instead, you can only try to discredit and devalue their profile. You can get followers by having a podcast, or creating art, or telling a life story that goes viral, or just by being funny.
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For example, a large-scale study by Andreassen et al. (2018) including 23,533 adults reported an association between narcissism and sex addiction. Perhaps no one exemplifies the trend of the fusion of church and fandom at this present moment more than Richard Ackerman, the Redeemed Zoomer, a Presbyterian YouTuber in his early twenties whose meteoric rise (by the standards of Christian internet figures) this past year has been powered by a strange hybrid of Minecraft videos and viral church history discussions. Though it seems absurd, it’s not inconceivable now that the future of entire national denominations, and certainly individual congregations, will be shaped by how their leadership reacts to movements like the kind he is pushing for. It’s not that rhetoric from leading personalities like Ackerman will have some permanent cultic sway over diehard fans, but that the networking opportunities and opinions formed on the platforms developed in the wake of such big debuts of personality will form increasingly crucial parts of average people’s identities. In the future, basic literacy will require knowledge of internet culture, fandoms, and history all at once, knowledge equally devoted to twitter personalities, Japanese video game characters and 16th century theologians.
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We even have memes about this, such as the infamous orthodox iconography / funko pop comparisons that have sprouted up. In other words, the institutional future for your church. Running with another white male who speaks fluent Rust Belt doesn’t give Trump an edge against Kamala. This is bravado talking, not ditsiness (the worst word, for the worst of all female character tropes). When the accountant tells her she must declare bankruptcy, Mia realises that this will apply only in the US and hightails it home to reconnect with her dysfunctional family, old friends and potential contacts to forge a new life.
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The internet is not the only way to reach people, or even the best way, but right now it’s where people’s eyes are. These institutions are what set the aggregate parameters, the tone and basic learning habits of social piety in that generation. Do we even know what evangelical culture would look like apart from these things? Is there even an evangelical culture apart from these things? The next generation will have even more fragmented media influences in a microcelebrity ecosystem that will be much harder to trace, in blogs and forums whose archives may be easily lost forever; in private group chats, mailing lists, and in Twitter feeds.
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Consider the way that evangelicals online will commonly geek out about Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and their favorite theologian all in the same breath. Just as there are a million ways for a fan to share their enthusiasm about a fictional universe, there are a million ways for religious people to show off how ethical they are. This is why the future of the church, for better or for worse, is going to take the shape of fandom. Did the Trump shooting really give him ‘moral authority’?
I got out of the shower and had over a 100 text messages and missed calls on my phone, and that’s when I knew. I would have never consented to having a video of me on pornhub, ever. And yet there I was, exposed on front page, the most popular porn site on the internet. For three days my video stayed on the front page. I was in a small program, and reputation was everything. The stress of knowing people know, wondering who doesn’t know, and hiding piled up and eventually everything fell apart.
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- Recent research focused on pornography addiction indicates that the gradual increase of Internet availability, as well as anonymity and privacy of its using, significantly increased pornography consumption mainly in male population (Burtăverde et al., 2021; Griffiths, 2012; Mauer-Vakil and Bahji, 2020; Pizzol et al., 2016; Price et al., 2016; Ross et al., 2012; Wright, 2013).
- I start to wonder if they are all still alive, as morbid as that seems, I know I’ve thought of suicide too many times to count.
- You can get followers by having a podcast, or creating art, or telling a life story that goes viral, or just by being funny.
I was harassed 24/7 by old classmates, strangers on the internet, even a few customers from my job recognized me. That’s when I would lose my first job because of GDP. Each time I would attempt to reinvent myself – new hair, new city, it didn’t matter. At the very least, the inevitable challenges the Zoomer Reconquista or any analogous internet based churchwide movement will face over the following years, internally or externally, will reveal just how many limitations there are in attempting to transfer online energy to real world action. What was once laughable now seems eerily within reach.
- The World Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC) have a rich and diversified portfolio in Armenia and have financed projects across a range of sectors, including financial markets, manufacturing, agribusiness, services, and mining.
- Internet culture is very decentralized, but it nevertheless has hierarchies.
- The collective social pressure of thousands of overlapping fandom circuits moderated according to a spectrum of leftist values is what formed the parameters of the average young millennial’s brain, even if they themselves are not deep in the fandom culture themselves.
- At the very least, the inevitable challenges the Zoomer Reconquista or any analogous internet based churchwide movement will face over the following years, internally or externally, will reveal just how many limitations there are in attempting to transfer online energy to real world action.
- Prosecution of minors under child pornography laws, the American Academy of Pediatrics warned in 2019, “has the potential to have dire legal ramifications for teens,” as sexting among young people—and prosecution of them under child pornography laws—continues to rise.
The collective social pressure of thousands of overlapping fandom circuits moderated according to a spectrum of leftist values is what formed the parameters of the average young millennial’s brain, even if they themselves are not deep in the fandom culture themselves. I was there as an adolescent watching it all happen, not realizing the long-term significance. All of my peer age internet friends joined Tumblr around 2011 to participate in various fandoms and, after a year or two of decentralized catechism, eventually embraced transsexual identities and vaguely leftist politics. They wouldn’t have figured this out on their own. They had to be enculturated; or, as some would say, groomed.
In addition, the connection between religiosity and a culture emphasizing sexual purity can exacerbate this negative influence, including feelings of great guilt (Grubbs et al., 2015). These findings suggest a relationship between perceived addiction to Internet pornography and psychological suffering related to a moral conflict and incongruency due to guilty feelings (regardless of an individual’s religiosity) (Bradley et al., 2016; O’Sullivan et al., 2014). Some of the most influential media fandoms online over the course of my youth (and during the general mainstreaming of fandom culture in the 2010s) have been Harry Potter, Pokémon, Minecraft, Five Nights at Freddie’s, Star Wars, Marvel, Doctor Who, Sherlock, Homestuck, as well as K-pop and anime fandoms without number. But we can of course see how the weird dynamics of online fan fervor in these media-oriented communities carry over into internet communities based around any other topic under the sun, including those that grow up around the profiles of internet influencers. Sometimes I think it would be best to call these ‘influencers’ fishers of men, casting wide nets and bringing in all the nations to hear their voice. Before you shrug all this off, consider that fandom culture is what mainlined wokeness into the bloodstream of our society.