Fangirls’ Yve Blake on her tribute to fan culture: “teenage girls have such cultural power”

Though Fangirls takes some dark and surreal twists, with a number of satirical plot elements, it is – at its core – primarily a celebration of teenage fans, who are often belittled and underestimated.

“They have such cultural and economic power, teenage girls. I think it’s so ironic that people roll their eyes at them,” she says. “Why is it that when, culturally, something is beloved by teenage girls, and people who aren’t men… why is it affiliated with this sense of cringe and it being low brow and embarrassing? I feel like we’ve seen so much dissection of this in in the last year and a half with Taylor Swift’s tour. I don’t know how to feel about the fact that the show first premiered in 2019, but it feels as prescient as ever.”