This Toxic Fandom

This Toxic Fandom celebrates 15 years of RuPaul’s Drag Race, from the drama and conflama both on and off the show to the moments that made us feel something special. Join your hosts, Joe, David, and Steven, as they death-drop in, get silly, get fabulous, and get to the heart of this fandom - Be it toxique or iconique.

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Episodes

Monday Apr 22, 2024

After sixteen grueling weeks of fashion, comedy, chaos, clout, and burger fingers, it's time to crown America's Next Drag Superstar! Who will it be?! Well, we'll find out after celebrating Cassandra Peterson (better known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark), moms around the world, and one of the best seasons of Gay America's favorite reality TV show! The bois dive into what made this season so special, what they wanted to see, and how they could all go for some Boba. Join us as we watch the grand finale of RuPaul's Drag Race season 16 and see who will take home the crown!
 
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Monday Apr 15, 2024

We're going off the rails this season and we couldn't be happier! As the bois watch the HIGHEST RATED EPISODE OF DRAG RACE EVER the eliminated girls come back and fight for the title of She Already Done Had Herses and $50,000! Hand puppets, stunts, splits, Miami, New York City, reveals upon reveals, giant hats, googly eyes - There is nothing this episode doesn't have! Join the bois as they gush about Megami and discuss who really earned the title of She Already Done Had Herses (which is just as fun to type as it it is to say!)Check us out on TikTok at https://www.tiktok.com/@thistoxicfandom and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/thistoxicfandom/  

Monday Apr 08, 2024

We're not doing a music video?! My brain! It's on fire! As is Nymphia's pussy! As the top four girls go from relaxed and celebratory to panicked and hilarious, they're forced to dive deep into the murky waters of RuPaul's kiddy pool for an underwater lipsynch of silliness, and then they have to dig deep into their own personalities and souls and get really real as they make their own memoirs! Proving that you can recycle from even your own season and make something great, how will the bois handle this shocking and literary twist because reading is WHAT?! Hard! Join us as we dive into RuPaul's Drag Race Season 16 and get illiterate on the runway!
 
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Monday Apr 01, 2024

The girls are given hunky background dancers for a show RuPaul really wants you to go see in Vegas and has to turn them into glamorous drag queens! Do they do it? Of course, you've seen a makeover episode before, and so have the bois, so they spend time faffing about in their own werk room talking about delayed queer adolescence, the terrors of tucking, and why Joe finds makeover episodes to be a personal attack. Join them as they dive into fashion faux-pas and dancing divas on this week's This Toxic Fandom!
 
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Wednesday Mar 27, 2024

What do you mean this episode came late?! It wasn't like Steven was just really busy and left the other bois to figure out how to podcast without him! Then again, they're so cute and charming in this episode it's hard not to enjoy it. Oh dear, is Steven paying them compliments in the copy? Yes, but they never read this so it's okay. This week the girls of RuPaul's Drag Race have to decorate bathrooms and see if they can spill more tea. Or share actual traumatic moments. I'm still not over that, are you? Morphine makes us think about the bathroom bills America is dealing with (because Republicans are FREAKING WEIRD and not allowed to enjoy Drag and be obsessed with who uses what bathroom at the same time) and Dawn might have to phone home. Y'know. Like ALF. Yeah I'm never recovering from that one. Tune in and join in the fun 'cause Dad's MIA and the bois are having a bathroom party! Woo!
 
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Monday Mar 18, 2024

Hi, welcome to This Toxic Fandom's TED Talk on how to be a fandom and only be moderately toxic. The bois this week get corporate and discuss the nuances of celebrating a month in a week, the longing for forbidden fried chicken, the trouble with confused editing, and how some people come out emotionally and other people come out with a powerpoint like they're Debbie from the Addam's Family or something. The girls this week have to give a presentation on Drag in the office and then walk the runway in a totally gnarly 80s-inspired fashion. Who wore it best, and will we be seeing AI queens on drag race!? Find out in this week's mandatory meeting-- I mean, this week's This Toxic Fandom!
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Monday Mar 11, 2024

The campaign trail is a bumpy one as the bois have to watch the first less-than-good episode of this season of RuPaul's Drag Race! With a lack of elimination, an episode title that leaves them scratching their head, and a complete lack of a message, will the Bois find something worth talking about, or will they wander around the wastelands looking for anything else to talk about? I think we both know the answer, dear listener, but the bois bring the energy and try to bring the funk (with a side of mayonnaise) on this week's This Toxic Fandom!
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Monday Mar 04, 2024

The bois learn to dance dance dance with their hands hands hands above their head head heads! Or something like that. Maybe that song is just stuck in my head. Regardless, in this episode of RuPaul's Drag Race, the queens are tasked with making high-fashion goth inspired looks. Of course, they do this after getting rid of the only girl who had a goth phase, but hey, who are we to judge? Well, we're podcasters! It's our job! As they discuss fashion, goth, and the horrific mental image Joe gets of "club kids", they celebrate the gender spectrum and get into the nitty gritty of a goth runway!
 
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Tuesday Feb 27, 2024

While Steven is still in recovery from a musical episode, David and Joe team up with adult content creator and general zaddy, Daddy Kylex!  And it's just in time, too, because it's the snatch game! Again! Will this be a legendary flop like season 14? An overstuffed mess like S15? Or will it actually be... A good snatch game?! Give it a listen to find out! Because with a snatch stuffed by a daddy, it's hard not to have an extra-long episode! Oh god, I'm so sorry you had to read that, but seriously, it's a great episode and a great guest.
Special thanks to Nick Crawford for editing this episode.
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Monday Feb 19, 2024

The pain, the pain of it all! It's another musical episode! Will Steven survive the endless references he doesn't understand?! Will Joe and David get into a heated debate over the best uses of Fossey styled choreography? Well, freakin' DUH, but hey they have a good time and even talk about an amazing runway with a gay Cloverfield monster! That's just special! The bois are going deep and getting broad(way) - It's time for the sound of Rusic, y'all!
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