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Origins of this content
This texteo sits on the Fred Fan Rant hidden YouTour so as to be simultaneously "published" in a special issue on fan/remix video at Transformative Works and Culture. It is extracted and refined from a talk presented at the UCSD symposium, Youth Media, Sensory Ability and Visual Culture, 2010.
Contextualization
Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) "is a problem with inattentiveness, over-activity, impulsivity, or a combination."[cit]

"Boredom is linked to both emotional factors and personality traits. Problems with attention also play a role, and thus techniques that improve a person's ability to focus may diminish boredom."[cit]

"The apathetic child is feeling a lot of pain and chooses to be apathetic as a means of insulating himself or herself from others who might possibly cause him or her pain." [cit]
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Fred's Fans Don't Care

I have spent too many hours looking at uncountable vapid videos like leafzkikass'. Oddly, given my typical verbosity, I find nothing useful to say. I suppose it is true that he too is "playing with power at a micro-level" and "exerting control over an imaginary world." [cit] But maybe the work is so banal I just don't care enough to do the hard work to make it make better sense ... I hereby introduce the "I don't care" modality as item one in my Fred fan video lexicon. "I don't care what all you internet gangsters say this guy is not funny." Note how Clone126whoOWNS and I put great care into declaring that we don't!

What I do care enough to see in these childish power plays—too much fun! Chaos! Fred wars!—is only an unsatisfying this:

Freds's fan's videos are a jumble of juvenile works that make fun of Fred motivated by jealousy and inspired by a project of ambivalence, or even nihilism, that refuses to know the differences between a host of critical binaries, in particular those of being mean and being nice, people that suck and those who have talent, the deserving and the undeserving, caring and not caring, losing and winning, stopping or even "killing" versus tolerating, and criticizing and copying.