Love That Turns Loud: Toxic Fandom, Identity, and the Joshua Shear Story
Miami understands passion.Here, music is not background noise. It is memory, neighborhood, and belonging. Most of the time that devotion builds community. Sometimes it builds cages. The story surrounding Joshua Shear began like so many fan stories do. He was known online as a Kottonmouth Kings loyalist, the kind of supporter who knew deep cuts…
