A Defense of Stanford Pines | A 10-Year Fandom Retrospective

What we can’t woobify, we vilify. What we can’t vilify, we diagnose. And sometimes, in the Gravity Falls fandom, we do all three.

Content warnings for:
Discussions of abuse, discussions of ableism, and occasional adult humor

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Closed captioning by:
David Glennon
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Video Chapters:
0:00 Tumblr Hating on the Elderly
2:34 30 Years and Now He’s Back
12:16 Mystery Trio and the introduction of Ford
22:22 In the trenches of the Stan War
34:13 Projecting on Old Men
56:31 Let the trial begin (opening remarks)
1:01:14 The Defense - Ford’s childhood/teen years
1:15:48 The Defense - Ford’s researcher years
1:25:55 The Defense - Ford calling Stan/Portal Incident
1:42:29 The Defense - And Now He’s Back
2:09:07 Ad for MTMB
2:12:32 The Defense - Ford and Dipper
2:36:04 The Defense - Weirdmaggedon
2:47:50 Death of the Author
3:01:16 Bill Cipher
3:13:46 No Defense - Fiddleford
3:43:12 Projecting on Stanford Pines
3:56:00 Mental Illness
4:41:22 Closing Remarks
4:44:05 If Icarus Could See Me Now
4:49:40 Credits+After Credits

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Sarah Z's video on Narcissism (it did not come out at a time where it influenced my video’s script - I just think it’s neat):
   • The Narcissist Scare  


Used for footage:
Jonathan Frakes telling you you’re wrong for 47 seconds:    • jonathan frakes telling you you're wrong f...  

Sources quoted:
A transcript to my interview with Alex Hirsch: https://sites.google.com/view/hanahyp...

Ovid’s Icarus: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/vsfd18/ov...

Narcissism and self-esteem reactivity: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Assessing Biased Attitudes Towards Clients with Cluster B Personality Disorders: https://encompass.eku.edu/cgi/viewcon...

Rates of abuse and neurodivergence:
https://link.springer.com/article/10....

A Cognitive-Behavioral Formulation of Narcissistic Self-Esteem Dysregulation
https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/full...