The Fandom Advantage: How Fan Creativity Fuels Pro Entertainment Careers

About this episode

The episode features a panel discussion on how fan creativity influences professional entertainment careers, recorded at San Diego Comic-Con.

Fansplaining returned to San Diego Comic-Con this year (our tenth anniversary!) with a fantastic panel of fandom folks who work in pro entertainment careers. There's an audio recording here on our feed, and over at the website: https://www.fansplaining.com/articles/sdcc-2025-the-fandom-advantage You can watch video version as well as read a full transcript. Because the intro to the audio is only on this feed, that's transcribed below. Transcript of intro : Hi everyone! Elizabeth here. I am fresh off San Diego Comic-Con 2025...or not...fresh, but I'm off. [laughing] I got home in the wee hours of yesterday morning. Had a wonderful time, but am happy to be home and sleeping in my own bed. So as you almost undoubtedly know, because we mentioned it a million times over the course of the podcast, Flourish and I first met at San Diego, we were on a panel together in 2015. So this is the ten-year anniversary. And so I was really honored to be able to host a panel again on Fansplaining's behalf, though it was obviously bittersweet because Flourish wasn't there...though I will say I sent over some pictures, and I think Flourish, I'm just dragging them back towards coming, just for…

People in this episode

Host: Flourish

Topics covered

• fandom
• creativity
• entertainment careers
• Comic-Con

Keywords

• San Diego Comic-Con
• fan creativity
• pro entertainment

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Fandom Advantage: How Fan Creativity Fuels Pro Entertainment Careers, Interview with the Vampire, The Witcher, Supernatural, Star Wars, In Defense of Fandom

Places: San Diego

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