The Future of the Church Is Fandom
This is simply what casual posting and social signaling looks like when you’re in an internet community. But now the slots have been filled with religious totems. It’s just that it is now easier than ever before to do those things publicly for instantaneous social validation, rather than toiling patiently and without acknowledgment for the sake of a higher end. For our purposes, we will define it as a culture developed between enthusiasts of a shared media interest, usually a fictional universe or media creator.
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- Maybe we hold our entertainment to be as sacred as our church, or more so.
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- In the last five years, Armenia has made substantial development gains.
- And the more they’re spending time on their digital devices, the more likely they are going to get swept up into some idolatrous fandom or even more extreme ideologies.
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The current Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for FY19–23 supports the rebalancing of Armenia’s economy toward a new growth model focused on boosting exports, enhancing human capital, and sustainably managing natural resources and the environment. The new CPF for FY24-28 is under preparation and will be aligned with the Government Program for 2021–26 approved in August 2021. In the last five years, Armenia has made substantial development gains.
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PORNOGRAPHIC EXPERIENCE AND ITS NEUROBIOLOGICAL CORRELATES
Operating in an online community, you learn to social signal in a particular way. D’Ambrosio talk about in their recent book You And Your Profile, we use social media profiles as a way to curate our public identity and validate our efforts. Young people express their identity online through signals very different from how previous generations did in primarily physical social spaces. The owners and operators of GirlsDoPorn knew the type of women they wanted to appear in their amateur porn videos—college-age millennials—would not agree to casually participate in the porn industry. After all, these women grew up in the Internet age, where amateur porn has been rampantly available for years.
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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.
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. The World Bank Group is also focused on sharing country knowledge and operational experience to leverage other development partners’ resources for effective public investment. However, Armenia needs to unlock key constraints to achieve inclusive and sustainable growth. Operating in a turbulent and uncertain geo-political context, the country struggles with low investment rates, weak attraction of foreign direct investment, limited human capital, connectivity constraints both within Armenia and with other countries, and limited diversity in its export base and destinations. Armenia is also vulnerable to climate change. These women were recruited via Craigslist modeling ads and then directed to fill out contact forms on benign-sounding websites like BeginModeling.com and CaliforniaModeling.com.
As in 2022, the services sector, particularly in IT, trade, and transportation, played a significant role in driving this growth. “That’s where almost all of pornography that’s produced goes,” Wolfe said. That’s precisely why GirlsDoPorn owner Michael Pratt, videographer Matthew Wolfe, and actor Andre Garcia created a bait-and-switch scheme to get the women to appear in their videos. Jane Doe 7 ended up filming a porn video under duress in a hotel room where furniture blocked the door, preventing her from leaving.
But the point is, each ‘fandom’ or subcultural circle (neo-denomination?) will have its own anarchic mix of cultural symbols, based on the personalities of those involved, and it will likely accelerate to the point that only the most cosmopolitan (and autistic) Very Online will be able to easily navigate most of them, at the expense of other studies. Recent findings suggest that specific manifestations representing human relationships and communication characterized as feelings of connectedness, bonding, and being listened to create an atmosphere of self-forgiveness and acceptance are inversely related to hypersexual behavior (Sniewski et al., 2018). Other findings indicate that men who manifest hypersexuality have also been found to be more depressed and anxious, and prone to substance abuse (Bancroft et al., 2003; Schachner and Shaver, 2004). Because of this process, it is possible that sensitized sexual arousal to Internet pornography may cause that sexual experience with a real partner may no longer trigger the sufficient dopamine release to produce and sustain sexual arousal and erection (Melis and Argiolas, 2011; Prause and Pfaus, 2015; Schultz, 1998).
- According to recent studies, the growing consumption of Internet pornography mainly in male population becomes an increasing problem, which is closely linked to compulsive sexual behavior.
- How could we expect an aging church leadership to keep pace with the frenetic energy of meme culture?
- Research of addictive behavior related to pornography suggests that approximately 56% of men experience pornography as a form of relaxation decreasing subjective feelings of tension (Cooper et al., 2004; Weiser, 2000).
- That’s when I would lose my first job because of GDP.
- As in 2022, the services sector, particularly in IT, trade, and transportation, played a significant role in driving this growth.
I just wish there had been someone there to enculturate them into a good life instead. Secondly, fandoms, and the vast nebulae of communities and platforms that they appear in, disseminate niche information and trivia very effectively, since they are run by enthusiastic nerds. On the fringes, this means that it’s easier for small scrappy teams of friends to gather intelligence on the periphery, wage information warfare, disseminate detailed agitprop, etc. But this universalizing interconnectivity in the mainstream means that the average internet community can be moderated and thought policed a lot more than you would think, especially by the standards of comfort enforced by women, and so many such communities quickly homogenize their values around progressive and egalitarian stances. Alastair Roberts has written about this at length.
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.
I’m tired of thinking that no one knows what I’m going through, and today I realized there are probably close to three hundred girls that do. 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. I want to do everything in my power to make sure that this doesn’t happen to anyone else. Even if I can just save one life, this exposure will all be worth it. Stalkers would post my full name, my phone number, my social media accounts – and even my address, driver’s license number, make/model of my car, and license plate number. I was terrified someone would try and find me.