Relevant fandom icon is relevant.

In three weeks, I'm heading a Con.TXT panel. I'm proud enough of this to tell some of my immediate family members, which means providing relevant details so they understand what I'm talking about - and the fact that I don't mind crossing the streams like that is a big thing.

Five-Minute Fandoms and Oneshot Deals:
Music videos, abandoned TV pilots, video game character trailers, songs, commercials - maybe they're not all five minutes, but you can get through the entire canon in the time it'd take to watch an episode of CSI. Considering the ratio of media consumed versus media produced, there's clearly something big going on here. What's the appeal of these? Is it the freedom and flexibility of having so little to work with? Does having less to start with make it easier to transcend typical fandom pressures? How do things stay fresh when there's so little to start and there might never be more? And is it the fact that it's possible to get someone else up to speed in the time it takes to watch an episode of CSI part of the draw?

Saturday morning, 11 AM. Bring your tiny canons and your media theories and we'll be happy to have you.