Hey everybody, welcome to another edition of Rob Observations. I am your host, Rob Leifeld,

doing this 34 years, writing, making, creating, publishing comics. Happy to share this incredible

journey of my life, lifelong obsession with comic books since i was a we lad pulling

these comic books off spinner racks in markets all over southern california that turned into a

really awesome fun career i i just am uh living a charmed life. And now we're doing this podcast. And I love

hanging out with you guys each and every week. And today we're going to jump right into it.

Thank you for listening. Thank you for being a fan of the show today. We are discussing fandom.

Fandom then and now.

Fandom in the modern age.

Fandom with social media, with Facebook, with Twitter, with Instagram, with TikTok.

What does it mean?

How has it altered our comic book experience? How does it alter the comic

books that we make? And so we're going to dive deep into that with a couple of recent incidents

that really opened my eyes and just refocused to the current age. And what I personally, from from my seat that I look at everything as in regards

to this industry and fandom as which is as a writer as a creator as an artist as a publisher

and as a fan myself as a fan myself and what i think is is is going on in regards to

um where everything is heading how everything is being shaped because i it would be uh completely

irresponsible to not embrace that fandom has 100% continued to evolve. And it's interesting to see exactly, you know,

how fandom is shaping what is to come. And how who's paying attention and why and what are the after effects and maybe a

little bit about etiquette etiquette is there any etiquette in social media but uh prior to that a a

hot topic uh conversation for this morning i have the finale, and I don't normally use this

to talk about current projects. I've talked a lot about my projects in the past. But as you

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