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Whether you love Taylor Swift, Hamilton, or anything in between, this one is for you. 🧡 #TEDTalks

When you think of fangirls, what comes to mind: large swaths of fandom (usually for a boyband) whose feelings culminate in tears and joyful screams? Perhaps you grimace or roll your eyes at the thought. In this fun, lively talk, playwright Yve Blake asks us to reevaluate our reaction to the misunderstood passion and power…

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When you think of fangirls, what comes to mind: large swaths of fandom (usually for a boyband) whose feelings culminate in tears and joyful screams? Perhaps you grimace or roll your eyes at the thought. In this fun, lively talk, playwright Yve Blake asks us to reevaluate our reaction to the misunderstood passion and power of fangirls, emphasizing why we should all embrace our own unbridled enthusiasm.

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  1. @Cymphonyquadnauau

    August 12, 2025 at 1:08 pm

    I appreciate your creativity. Each new video is a little treat.🤹⛹️🟫

    • @AnnieB-v8j

      August 12, 2025 at 3:55 pm

      Bot.

  2. @NupeAtl

    August 12, 2025 at 1:17 pm

    Both can be true…

  3. @ewalichorowicz4614

    August 12, 2025 at 1:21 pm

    I like the use of humor 😄

    • @mathewpoole3589

      August 13, 2025 at 5:23 am

      Yeah, those hysterical psycho fangirls are just so crazy that they always make me laugh.

      Good times 😂

    • @l01230123

      August 13, 2025 at 2:55 pm

      @@mathewpoole3589 Jeeesus dude we get it: you’re horribly unfunny and don’t like it when women have emotions. 😅

      Sad times 🤷‍♂️

  4. @justinhale2584

    August 12, 2025 at 1:22 pm

    Don’t be so hormonally indecisive? Maybe that won’t seem to be the case

  5. @sjaneesh7066

    August 12, 2025 at 1:27 pm

    pure words ❤

  6. @giffardthegrandiloquent5180

    August 12, 2025 at 1:39 pm

    No girl or woman I know has ever punched a fridge. I know two men who have but women are the crazy ones. 🤷🏻‍♀️

    • @amandasnider2644

      August 12, 2025 at 1:49 pm

      Well let me introduce myself: When I was 13 my parents got a brand new stainless steel fridge…a pristine fridge.

      For some reason I wanted to prove to my younger brother that I had an abnormally hard head and that headbutting isn’t painful for me…I demonstrated by headbutting the brand new fridge…

      There’s been a dent in the fridge for 15 years since…😂😂😂

    • @PiotrKaszuba8403

      August 12, 2025 at 9:54 pm

      Not only punching a fridge is an agression or fault behaviour. There is a lot of differences between sexes how they are acting badly.

    • @liledevil

      August 13, 2025 at 4:01 am

      ​@PiotrKaszuba8403 < what he sad. How many women have had their car keyed by a crazy ex vs how many men have? Or false accusations being made, regardless of any legal consequences.

    • @sunshinewtwodollasigns100

      August 13, 2025 at 9:35 am

      Guys, if you’re out camping, you can still punch a cooler.

    • @PiotrKaszuba8403

      August 13, 2025 at 9:46 am

      ​@@sunshinewtwodollasigns100 What about ideas for girls? Don’t be misandristic😉

  7. @jonasp.3900

    August 12, 2025 at 2:02 pm

    Great talk! ❤🎉

  8. @PiotrKaszuba8403

    August 12, 2025 at 2:10 pm

    It’s not about the topic itself, whatever is Taylor Swift or football, anything else. It’s about being fanatic or not. Not about what, but more why and how.

    • @carsonhunt4642

      August 12, 2025 at 3:44 pm

      She ironically also contradicts her own statement within a minute lol. Social sayings exist to “correct” behavior to whatever structural norm is in place. Calling someone “crazy” is a way to perhaps prevent that bad behavior.

    • @kangarookohai

      August 12, 2025 at 8:47 pm

      But there’s underlying misogyny that often devalues women and girls’ passion for things.

    • @PiotrKaszuba8403

      August 12, 2025 at 9:10 pm

      ​@@kangarookohai Sure, but only from a crooked point of view, so that point of view is the causality of it. What I’m interesting in is a core of it and from none bias perspective.

    • @timy9197

      August 12, 2025 at 9:15 pm

      Different fandoms are treated differently regardless of how they’re expressed

    • @timy9197

      August 12, 2025 at 9:18 pm

      @@carsonhunt4642what’s the contradiction?

  9. @its1979yall

    August 12, 2025 at 2:23 pm

    …..She’s absolutely right…I agree……Also, however…she’s absolutely wrong…….(a woman isn’t less capable etc etc)…(nor is a man more fit etc etc)……Everything is subjective all depending on whatever..etc etc…..(Nevertheless….I get what she’s saying🤔)…….(😑but the same is applicable towards a male)…..End of story…

    • @kangarookohai

      August 12, 2025 at 8:50 pm

      She speaks with a lot of examples. She’s outlining a lot of double standards.

    • @PiotrKaszuba8403

      August 12, 2025 at 9:55 pm

      ​@@kangarookohaiI agree, but it also creates new ones, as it is not touching the roots of the issues.

  10. @Eric-lr3zj

    August 12, 2025 at 3:19 pm

    “I’m obsessed with making myself out to be a victim because I’m a woman when white women are the most privileged people in modern society.” 🙄

  11. @ThatIndividual72104

    August 12, 2025 at 8:32 pm

    I guess she has a point… but her initial example is a reach…..

    • @kangarookohai

      August 12, 2025 at 8:50 pm

      Not really.

    • @ThatIndividual72104

      August 13, 2025 at 12:01 am

      ​​@@kangarookohaiit absolutely is a reach. Sure the two phenomenon are similar but i think engaging in the idolization of a stranger to the point of religous ecstasy is much more worthy of being made fun of than the cathardic activity of watching sports, which both men and women engage in btw… both have there extremes, but base line idolizing of a stranger is still bad, just watching sports and wanting your team to win isnt. Ones a much needed release of emotion, the other is a practice is fantasy and insanity 😂 in what way does a young girl benefit from fan girling over justin beiber? Or a young guy fan boying over drake?

  12. @Trevor21230

    August 12, 2025 at 11:30 pm

    While I do agree, I don’t think a Justin Bieber concert was a great example. He was 15 and being blatantly sexualized and made into a object of romantic attraction by the songs he was being asked to sing. I don’t think girls crying from joy at the sight of child exploitation is the image she actually wanted to evoke.

    Also, it is worth noting that crying about sports is absolutely not a universally accepted thing for boys.

    Again, there is a double standard, but there is also nuance. One cannot be adequately addressed without the other.

    • @magneticmelancholy

      August 14, 2025 at 3:43 am

      You need evidence of a double standard which she has none. Her “double standard” is really just a biased opinion formed from her specific life experience.

  13. @liledevil

    August 13, 2025 at 3:57 am

    Honestly, I do not think those “fanatics” at soccer games are the most rational either. They are often the ones engaging in racist, misogynistic and straight down offensive chants under the guise of “fanatism”. I wouldn’t those make the important decisions in our society.
    And yeah, I think the “fanatics” at any boyband concert are the same. Though honestly, at least they often have their age as an excuse.
    There is nothing wrong with being a fan or supporting a team/artist. It’s the crazy “fanatism” where ratio gets pushed aside by emotion that I am no fan off.

  14. @dw1ght_k_schrute727

    August 13, 2025 at 7:26 am

    OK Karen 😂

    • @l01230123

      August 13, 2025 at 2:59 pm

      OK ignorance 😅

      Nothing _cooler_ than a wanna-be cyber bully who doesn’t even get what a Karen is…

  15. @sunshinewtwodollasigns100

    August 13, 2025 at 9:32 am

    The bodyguards at the Nicki concert said the football fans are worse than the Barbz.

  16. @magneticmelancholy

    August 14, 2025 at 2:56 am

    A woman fallaciously arguing that women are just as capable as men in their ability to reason? Crazy 😂

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