Everything I Need I Get from YouKaitlyn TiffanyLabel: Farrar Straus & Giroux IncDescription: 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 an irreverent signpost for an unfathomably large hyper-connected alternative universe: stan culture. In Everything I Need I Get from You Kaitlyn Tiffany a staff writer at The Atlantic and a superfan herself guides us through the online world of fans stans and boybands. Along the way we meet girls who damage their lungs from screaming too loud fans rallying together to manipulate chart numbers using complex digital subversion and an underworld of inside jokes and shared memories surrounding band members' allergies internet typos and hairstyles. In the process Tiffany makes a convincing and often moving argument that fangirls in their ingenuity and collaboration created the social internet we know today effectively making One Direction the first internet boyband. Before most people were using the internet for anything Tiffany writes fans were using it for everything.With humor empathy and an expert's eye Everything I Need I Get from You reclaims internet history for young women establishing fandom not as the territory of hysterical girls but as an incubator for digital innovation art and community. From alarming fandom-splitting conspiracy theories about secret love and fake children to the interplays between high and low culture and capitalism Tiffany's book is a riotous chronicle of the movement that changed the internet forever.
