On the other hand, when I try to define the differences between sf lit fandom and media fandom approaches to the source text, the degree and type of emotional connection keeps coming up as very important.
On the third hand (yay sf!), I've often been disappointed at sf lit fans' reactions to the source text because it's just as shallow, shippy, and shallowly character-oriented as media reactions.
I think that both sf lit fandom and media fandom can and do respond in both of those modes to the source text. Your preference or perhaps just what you're used to (in yourself and/or what you expect from others) in sf lit fandom seems to be lit-critical and in media fandom seems to be emotional, BUT THEY BOTH DO BOTH (often at the same time) AND THAT IS JUST THE WAY IT IS. Sure, if you're priviledging one type of response over the other in a given context and your expectations aren't met, then there's a gap there. But as regards vids, please don't box them into some notion of what you think media fandom looks like, especially if it's one as tiny as this one sounds. Because they're bigger than that. They regularly do more than that. Much of it a form of lit-critical, in my estimation, and I'm collaborating with others to try to work out the ways in which we see vids operating to be able to explain that a little more by next year.
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On the third hand (yay sf!), I've often been disappointed at sf lit fans' reactions to the source text because it's just as shallow, shippy, and shallowly character-oriented as media reactions.
I think that both sf lit fandom and media fandom can and do respond in both of those modes to the source text. Your preference or perhaps just what you're used to (in yourself and/or what you expect from others) in sf lit fandom seems to be lit-critical and in media fandom seems to be emotional, BUT THEY BOTH DO BOTH (often at the same time) AND THAT IS JUST THE WAY IT IS. Sure, if you're priviledging one type of response over the other in a given context and your expectations aren't met, then there's a gap there. But as regards vids, please don't box them into some notion of what you think media fandom looks like, especially if it's one as tiny as this one sounds. Because they're bigger than that. They regularly do more than that. Much of it a form of lit-critical, in my estimation, and I'm collaborating with others to try to work out the ways in which we see vids operating to be able to explain that a little more by next year.