Since we have many new readers and not everyone has read all of our posts, here are some of our most popular posts of 2012!
Hallyu / Korean Wave / Korean pop culture
We write often at The Learned Fangirl about kpop and k-dramas, so it’s not surprising that these are some of our most read posts, including:
- The Dark Side of Hallyu (Korean Wave)?
- Guide for the Perplexed: Korean Dramas
- The Learned Fangirl Discusses 2NE1
Representation(s) in U.S. and U.K. pop culture and fandom
- Why “women in rock” magazine issues are both highly relevant and highly depressing
- The Space Between: Laina Dawes – Metalhead/Music Writer
- Learned Fangirls discuss fandom misogyny
- Default Whiteness in TV, and why online video’s not much different
Social media and online culture
- The Short Second Life of Post Secret; or How Griefers, Sexters, and Haters Ruined an App in Only Four Months
- How to work in social media without it wrecking your personal life
- TLF’s Favorite Internet Memes of 2011
- Binders full of women, Big Bird, and bayonets: Memes and Online Political Discourse
Fangirling it up
- Learned Fangirls talk about Prometheus! (Spoilers)
- Three Reasons Why Avengers will be the #1 fangirl movie this year
- How I learned to stop worrying and love Ripley: A feminist nerd finally watches Alien
Video games and other stuff