What Were YOU Doing at the Devil's Sacrament: Real Person Fiction

Join Emily and Vee as they tackle real person fiction (RPF) and all that it entails, from fanfiction to biopics. Plus, Vee creates a new evidence-based RPF chart for your everyday use. 

Topics include: Celebrities, real person fiction

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Sources from today's ep:

• Lemon on Fanlore
• The Citrus Scale by imetyouonljpodcast
• RPF on Fanlore
• "This is a deepfake!": Celebrity scandals, parodic deepfakes, and a critically speculative ethics of care for fandom research in the age of artificial intelligence by Eva Cheuk-Yin Li and Ka-Wei Pang
• Vee's RPF Acuity Scale
• The Seattle Kraken embraced thirsty ‘BookTok’ hockey romance videos. It backfired. by Daysia Tolentino
• Parasocial interaction on Wikipedia
• Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity, from Bronze Age to Silver Screen by Greg Jenner
• Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death by Charlotte_Stant
• Paul McCartney Said He Once Masturbated with John Lennon: "It Was Good Harmless Fun" by Starr Bowenbank
• Emily's mom reacting to the Paul McCartney news
• Grandma Heated Rivalry gift by margarettiktokgod
• Bandom (Decaydance+, My Chemical Romance) on Fanlore
• Stephen Colbert King of Glory dance

Thank you to Erik Potteiger for producing our song and Haflacky for our logo design.