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"Stan twitter is toxic" The floor is made out of floor

Jas: is stan Twitter toxic? Me and the fellow directioners: yes.

when u started talking about imagines and the niall imagine showed up i started laughing so hard help

i'll never forget what stan twitter did to taylor swift, that was dark.

I think your distinction between being on stan twitter first and paving the way for the culture of stans is so important. directioners didn’t invent stan twitter at all but they did impact it heavily and that was really well explained in this

Isnt it weird how teenage girls and their interests are looked down upon and made fun of through out society yet they’re the ones who arguably make the biggest impacts on how our society moves culturally. Such a weird phenomenon.

‘sh*t directioners say’ just unlocked a memory so deeply ingrained in my head oh my god i miss it so much

This almost felt like a hey angel video with the talk about 1D....let me go cry... 😢

the fact that you’re able to be funny and show your personality while still being so informed and relaying good info is amazing you’re going to be great at music commentary

Two things 1. thank you for acknowledging the the LGBTQIA+ influence and the BIPOC influence on Stan Twitter and Stan culture, I hadn’t even thought about that before and it was very enlightening 2. I would love to see a video on fanfic. As a reader I’ve done a lot of research on various people’s opinions on the ethical side of it. I would love to hear you opinions and facts on it. This video was so detailed and interesting. Another great, informative video, thank you! ❤️❤️❤️

honestly i think with stan twitter people have a whole perception that is is ALL toxic wherein it’s just whatever fandom you’re in, the louie side is fantastic (in my opinion) and there is little to no drama but when you start to lean to the one direction side and begin to cross the boundary it becomes more... distorted shall we say, different fandoms hold different opinions (of course) and express them in different ways (of course) but people need to realise it’s not the whole of stan twitter that’s toxic just, certain parties that ‘ruin’ it (shall we say)

when you talked about feeling guilty because you can't be on stan twitter i felt that 😅 i literally went off all my socials bc of my mental health for two months one time and like 40 people unfollowed me just because i missed some stuff. after that my mental health got even worse because i felt like i HAD to be on twitter all the time

iv'e been a swiftie for a few years (i only recently got on stan twitter like a year ago) and tbh i think the pandemic made stan twitter way way worse... one thing is that taylor used to make her little inside jokes with us on tumblr & twitter but now she barely even uses social media bc of all the hate shes gotten over the years. i can also say for sure that taylor def has a personal connection w her fans but i feel like stan twitter has kind of ruined it. she sends us gifts and letters, money, invites us to her house, her m&g's are free, i can go on (she obv cant do all that during the pandemic) but now swifties are one of the main fandoms on twitter that fight other fandoms and attack people for no reason. + its really sad honestly bc taylor wouldnt like that at all :/

1. you explained EVERYTHING to a T 2. your tattoos are so cute 3. your outfit is just **chef's kiss**

OMG THE WORLD NEEDS THIS

I just wanna know who saw STAN (Stalker fan) by Eminem and thought *Yes that’s a good thing to call myself* 😀

d£@th threats are so normalised on Stan twitter it's scary.

Wow you’re really one of the only people that I can actually listen to speaking for 30+mins straight,you’re explaining everything so well and still add personality to it ,I love that

Pro tip for Stan Twitter: don’t introduce your irl friends to your online friends. It mostly always never ends well ( in my case anyways ) 😃👍🏻

It’s a good day when Jasmine posts

Thank you for spilling ✨ facts ✨

i was on 1d stan twitter for almost a year before i left bc i just couldn’t handle it anymore, i made so many amazing and nice friends on there and it was fun for the most part, but i was constantly seeing ppl who weren’t even in the 1d or solo 1d fandoms say terrible things about my favs and it just wasn’t good at all, and also everyone is so concerned and obsessed with the amount of streams on a song or the amount of stans an artist has and just doesn’t care about if a person is talented or anything that it just gets so exhausting having to deal with people like that and ruins the whole point of having a stan account tbh, like if you are only going to talk about a person that your account isn’t even for and say “ * blank * is such a flop they can’t even get on the charts while * their stan * is on the top of the charts” “imagine stanning * blank * couldn’t be me” “* blank * cant sing idk how they have fans honestly” it’s just makes no sense whatsoever and i don’t get how ppl think saying that stuff is ok, but honestly tho if it wasn’t for ppl who say rude stuff about other ppl for no reason i would probably still be on there bc it was genuinely so fun talking with ppl who have a common interest as me, and as i said before i made so many great friends while i was on there :)

people tbh don't give enough credit to eminem for literally inventing the word "stan" and for basically introducing what on earth a stan was

I find cancel culture on Twitter to be quite ignorant. It’s educational values are lost when people are trending hashtags which put certain artists down or which are insulting. Why can’t an artist be held accountable for their actions without insults or cancelling them?? If you can have a conversation on their platform to make your point, that seems more efficient and effective to me. Otherwise, it begins to fall under the umbrella of toxicity. But it’s a culture that will just keep evolving and will continue to do so, so long as there’s this competition led marketing in the music industry.

I want a fanfic video

stan twitter back in 2012-2013 was elite

I don't want to be that person, but I will probably come out as that person by this comment. Thank you for including kpop in this. As a kpop stan, it means so much.

Adding to the appreciation of Jas's recognition that much of "Stan language" came from the BIPOC community, especially the Black queer community, some further sociolinguistic reading about language and race and gender: Stephen Mann's (2011) "Drag Queens' Use of Language and the Performance of Blurred Gendered and Racial Identities." This is not at all a starting piece, there is so much other background info, but this is one piece I have really enjoyed from a linguistics course in university!

I just made a stan account about two weeks ago, and I've already seen/experienced most of what you covered in this video. I've had a lot of fun with quick updates, talking to mutuals, and gushing over the louis airport pics (still not over them) but I've also seen a lot more of the toxic side of the fandom and it scares me

now is my chance to say what I need to say: Stan Twitter makes me feel like home, like there's always someone. because of how many fandoms I'm in & how many people stan the celebrities I stan too. I legit met my girlfriend- well not on stan Twitter but through being a stan. can it be intense? yes absolutely. is it not easy to understand at times for people who aren't stans? totally. but is it a safe space for stans? YES. it's legit -besides all the hysteria- a home

you did a great job describing stan twitter! the anxiety and FOMO that came along with stan twitter is exactly why I stopped using stan twitter regularly :) it's also weird as a 23 year old who has been on stan twitter since 2011 but now feel out of place, since everyone else is so young.

I deactivated or left all of my fan accounts because of how toxic fandoms are. My ADHD blurs the lines between what’s nice and what’s not and I’ll end up commenting something hurtful without realizing it, thinking it’s an innocent opinion or comment. I’ve tried to get people to understand that and apologize but I’ve hurt a lot of people without meaning to so I just stepped away. It hurt me more than it was worth.

IMAGINES omg what a throwback 😂

the way you talked about the pressure of constantly being on there and being shamed for leaving and actually having a life was something I wish I had heard when first joining. hopefully newer people can see this video and realize what I wish I had earlier, so thank you for this :)

not even that fandoms themselves are toxic but on the individual level there’s a lot of need for validation and like trying to become moots w people who are more popular than you idk it fucks w ur mental health. I felt like no matter what I was always missing content and it was really draining and exhausting

just popping in to say how toxic stan twitter is. its the worst truly. fandom wars, being "cancelled", having drama with other people in your group chats or in "your side" of twitter, people priv quoting. It really builds up to become a massive source of anxiety, especially for me, because its fucking scary to wake up to a massive ratio and hundreds of dms telling you to d13 or something along those lines. I srsly hate stan twt, along with the things you said

let’s talk about it 😌✋🏼

personally i've been on the solo louis tomlinson side of stan twt for ages and i've experienced little to none toxicity coming from the people on there. everyone i've met is so nice and all they care about is supporting louis and showing their love for him. and also staying in their own lane without talking shit about other people's favs unprovoked which is so weird to see nowadays :( i wish all fandoms were that way so everyone can enjoy stan twt the way (or we) do

as a 1D Stan this was so interesting to hear and tbh Stan twitter can be toxic as fuckkkk but I see how we didn’t start Stan twitter and it’s not just toxic but it can be and mentally draining it can be an amazing time too this video is important and helpful

i’m so excited that you’re doing commentary style videos on here especially since they’re revolving around pop culture, that is like my favorite genre of video on youtube and i can’t wait to see what you bring to it 😄

queen you literally just spilled and made me watch a half an hour video of you talking about stan Twitter like it was so informative you're the best youtuber to watch ily

Honestly many will say that armies are very toxic but I'm so proud of them cause they are one of the fandoms who are very aware and educated of what is happening around the world and they are the ones who constantly donates to what matters, so grateful for y'all!

You’re so good at mixing information with showing your personality and humor, the perfect mix for a `not so serious’ informative video!

i love how you manage to cover a topic like this while still being funny you’re so amazing

the rebranding and making videos you wanna make and wearing what you wanna wear and moving and oh my god i love you

Can you be my teacher? Your explanation is **chefs kiss**

Gonna share this on my stan twt in hope that ppl on there will watch this, such a great explanation of what needs to change and what the problems are on stan twitter! Loved this video!!

can you please make a video talking about the whole #justicefor1dandlittlemix and #justiceforfifthharmony thing and jedward speaking out and just your whole opinion on what they said about the xfactor and louis unfollowing after

the fomo rlly got me, like ive taken a couple of breaks (all of them being kind of big regarding period of time) but its like it literally took over my entire life. we stan jasmine for putting into words what we cannot ❤️💀

This was so informative I wasn’t really on the internet that much until 2017 so I always wondered where fan edits and Stan culture came from. amazing video btw this deserves wayyyy more views

omg jas i love this kind of format it's so interestinggg

as a young person who is interested in sociology and the music industry this was so interesting!! great work in edition too, also you are very articulate. congrats!

This is really helpful for new people coming into stan twitter and i hope this would reach as many people as possible

absolutely loved this video and would appreciate more such videos like the one you mentioned about fanfics

15:20 omg yes please do a video on fanfics

You nailed everything on the head! I’ve been on stan Twitter for a long time and I’ve seen a lot but this video was very informative and fun especially to watch as a stan!! Keep pushing out this content!!!🤎

jasmine i loves this video , i learned more things in this video than i have learned this whole school year hope ur doing well ana very proud of your accomplishments

such a profound explanation thank you for this much needed video girlie

i LOVE this video. i was on stan twitter all of high school and i ended up deactivating around may of last year and it’s crazy how much it was affecting my mental health without realizing it. i was actually on tv show stan twitter and not music but i had mutuals that were involved in all kinds of different fandoms so i definitely saw what you talked about in this video. one of the funniest parts of music stan twitter to me was comparing charts. i don’t want to get all “not like other girls” here because i do love plenty of popular artists but as someone who does listen quite a few “underground” (like less than 30,000 monthly spotify listeners) artists, it was funny to see people care so much about popularity. just listen to the music, who cares how well it’s doing if YOU like it? i also was someone that was guilty of doing unfollow sprees like every other week just to keep that skinny ratio and it’s funny to look back and wonder why i cared so much about that.

your channel is so underrated this was one of the best/most informative videos i've seen in a while! your way of explaining things is just amazing and soooo entertaining 💕

this is definitely one of the best and most interesting videos i have watched lately!! i just love your way of explaining, like making little jokes here and then but also making it really understandable (also for the people who have no idea about stan twitter)!! i've been on stan twitter for like 4 years, on and off, but i actually did learn some new information about this topic because of your video. i don't feel that comfortable on stan twitter lately, because of how exhausting it is, and this video really made me realize once again how big of a thing this whole stan twitter is, like putting so much effort in everything and stuff. i do love how you mentioned the good things at the end, because this also reminded me again why i even joined stan twitter :) anyways i never comment that much, but thank you so much for making this video!!

You’re so good at talking and getting every point across! ily jaz! Thank you❤️

there are so many layers to stan twitter and having watched it evolve over the years was wild but you brought up a lot of important points to get a basic understanding of the topic and its issues because this place has ISSUES lmaoo but yeah it is also an important outlet and escape for so many so it's difficult to just label it one thing (and even more difficult to navigate)

I just wanna say that you explain everything really well and you are really good at talking about stuff like that! I find these videos really interesting cause I wanna learn more about things like that.

Super informative video, thank you! :) I agree, it’s crazy how there isn’t that much information - and subsequent insight - available surrounding the fandom-like world of Stan Twitter, because it is such a relevant and integral part of various social media platforms and the cultures that exist within. Keep up the great content! 🌻

ahhhh wow i love how extensive your commentary is. also so grateful you included how much stan culture language comes from Black ppl! unrelated but my god the lyric drawings blasted me back to eighth grade lmao 2012 was a WACKY and wonderful time to be alive, on the internet (ahem, tumblr) and a directioner 😌😩

yess pls fanfiction history lesson

i love jas edits!! she is like an alter ego of you. It is like on one shoulder is jasmine and on the other is jas edits like in the cartoons .

Honestly stan culture is a huge part of why I left the directioner fandom. I mean, I didn't consciously unstan it just... faded out of my personality and it became more draining than uplifting and cool. I still listen to their music and solos too (and I'll scream my head off in joy if Larry finally comes out lol) but I just can't be bothered to be there for all the drama that's happening every single day.

Hey, could you consider making a commentary vid on like closeting in The Industry, and what managements Can truly get away With sooo easily. It’s so horrible and i Think With all thats happening on Twitter right now it’s important

I'm one of those people who didn't know about all this culture and who hasn't experienced something harmful on Twitter. And all the things you mentioned in the end about the good sides of stan Twitter are honestly the reasons I'm there) And your tweets make my day as well)

Your videos are so interesting and insightful

as a kpop stan who's been on kpop twitter for a bit, i'd say fancams and fan edits were separated for a while before they kind of became synonymous on twitter. fancams were videos filmed by fans at concerts and shows before becoming more mainstream within the industry (where broadcasting companies, i.e. mnet and kbs, started making more official "fancams" of kpop idol's performances, which is ironic as they were called fancams for the sole reason that they were filmed by fans, but now they're usually by these big companies.) those fancams are the vertical, longer videos of performances with very professional set ups and cameras. fan edits are a bit different. they were clips edited together, taken from vlogs, stages and other forms of content in general. i guess this are the videos with more resemblance to the vines that you mentioned. i don't know much about the fan edits outside of kpop twitter, but non-kpop fans probably started calling their own edits fancams because they're used for the same purpose as kpop fancams - to promote their faves and get people to watch their performances. but from what i've seen, non-kpop fancams/edits were different from kpop fancams and just adapted to being calls fancams through some weird evolution. now "fancam" is just a wider term for videos focusing on someone's faves in general, whether performances or movie scenes or vlogs and whatnot.

here. this belongs to you 👑

You did a very great job explaining making sure you were inclusive etc. Thanks for the video and I'm so excited for more of this genre of video!

love your hair!!

I ALREADY LOVE IT OMG

I've been following you since the good old days (the old channel) and there's nobody I trust more to talk about stan twitter. It is an interesting topic to discuss but it often derails tremendously because the people speaking about haven't lived it. Seeing it as an outsider might seem crazy and it might make the worst parts stand out more, but it's not that bad. I'm old now, but I've been part of this changing culture for years and yes, it can be toxic, yes, it can be a lot of things, but all communities have sides like that. The only reason is more demonized when it comes to stan twitter it's because of people's view on 'fangirls' (and misogyny, to an extent). Idk, I like that you put a positive bit at the end. I'm tired of male youtubers making vids mocking a culture they can't really understand bc they never experienced it, it's nice to hear an objective perspective. Hope you can continue the series with more fun vids ❤️

not jas edits being iconic as always 🙄✋🏼

was a part of stan twitter for a few years before realizing the mob mentality you talked! i think it definitely changes your outlook in life and makes you in this "alert" mode that i think it's not healthy irl. now i just use my acc to share fanart or original art XD great video as always !

As a person who is currently on stan twitter and have been for long periods of time it was very interesting to hear what stan culture looks like if you look at it objectively because I’ve never really thought abt it this way before

Purr sis. You snapped. Period

Thank you for doing good research for this. Great video :)

its really interesting looking at different parts of stan twitter, as a fan of both the mcyt and 1d subtwts, you can really see different perspectives and how much it overlaps. especially nowadays, i feel like most of the teenagers on there want to do good in the world, and try to help rt and spread awareness, which i think is often overlooked by the fact that we often accidentally trend things due to twitters algorithm. if you relatively stay in your subtwt, it can be a really accepting place, but once you reach out it can be really toxic depending on the fandom. ( this is just personal experience for me in my next statement) for example, a lot of the mcyt selfie days that people do for fun are often found by other fandoms and it can be really disasterous, with super rude and dangerous comments to people with unstable mental health. i think some fandoms have gotten really brave in their actions because they dont see what their words do to other people. stan twitter is just such an interesting phenomen to look at, and i definitely think its only going to get worse unfortunately.

Mark my words: this girl's gonna be HUGE

Thank you for making this video

well make take on stan twitter is that I freaking love it! yes i've been attacked many times before by people who share the same interest as me or people from other fandoms just because I voiced my opinions, however I made many great connections with people from all around the world and have made some really good friends throughout the years especially if no one around you irl understands your love for stars and music ,, it's pretty awesome to be able to argue with like-minded people online even though it can be harmful sometimes. I think the good overweighs the bad

Omg you moving to commentary type videos gives me LIFE

i also think it's important to note the huge influence kpop twt has on stan twt. literally every edit trend or just trend in general starts in kpop twitter and ends up in all sides of stan twitter

oooh tea, i’m excited to watch

manifesting a hit video for jas 🕯🕯🕯

This is my first time watching this video and I literally love ur voice and I listened to the whole video during my break which I usually watch shows so thank you .Ice been looking for a video like this

Love how she starts off with “I’m worried”

this is unrelated but your vibes remind me of a close friend I have and its very comforting

this is actually one of my fav vids!! i just came across your channel and i might subscribe😳

I don't know why, but I'm so confused with twitter. I tried to go on it so often, because in so many fandoms it's just very famous, but I always give up. For me it's so chaotic. Tumblr the same for me. Maybe it's because I simply didn't grew up with those platforms, but with instagram and tik tok 🤷

i lovee this video its so nostalgic omg i miss these times

1:53 this hand motion reminds me of someone and I'M LOVING THIS YES MISS

YOUR HAIRRR 😍