and troy smiles, “right, because you were with roz the whole time.”

“i mean, yes, but also because you and dallas kent spent years calling me and jj ‘rush hour’ and asking hayden if his wife was his beard to cover up his big gay relationship with me.”

the rest of the centaurs blink. harris puts his head in his hands and groans.

the problem i think everyone is having here is not realizing what fandom really means and that is Community. he wants a community of fans who cling to his every word and are willing to go to bat for him and his people. he wants people who really Believe in what he is doing, whatever that is. fanart and fanfic are more just side effects of fandom, symptoms of the root cause. kids have made him fanart for sure, i know there were people on tiktok who really did try to build a community for mr beast. but the problem is, like so many have already pointed out, is that there is nothing to grab onto. his personality is "smiling man who can yell into a microphone and has money"

hes not interesting, he has said he has made sure he does not show any strong opinions or pov because he doesnt want to alienate anyone but that has effectively made him duller than a beige wall. hell, he doesnt even realize what made his own show appealing, with people complaining about how they never focus on the contestants, we dont get attached to anyone, so no one cares about the people losing or betraying.

fantasy readers: this is fucking awesome. this rocks. youre so good at this man

nonwhite fantasy authors: so the knight is a black woman, and there are no orcs,

2nd base: exist in a public space together

3rd base: you witness me have a real, candid emotion