Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Named a must-read book for summer 2022 by Bustle, Fast Company, theSkimm, Nylon, Chicago Tribune, Lit Hub, and Publishers WeeklyOn the internet, fandom can be a route toward cyberbullying a baby, or it can be a way of figuring some things out about yourself. Sometimes, it can even forge a writer as funny and perceptive as Kaitlyn Tiffany." --Amanda Hess, The New York TimesWistful, winning, and unexpectedly funny. --Katy Waldman, The New YorkerA thrilling dive into the world of superfandom and the fangirls who shaped the social internet. In 2014, on the side of a Los Angeles freeway, a One Direction fan erected a shrine in the spot where, a few hours earlier, Harry Styles had vomited. "It's interesting for sure," Styles said later, adding, "a little niche, maybe." But what seemed niche to Styles was actually a signpost for an unfathomably large, hyper-connected alternate universe: stan culture. In Everything I Need I Get from You, Kaitlyn Ti