Aja IS the PR

[snacky]

John and I were discussing how bookshop caused an explosion in One Direction teenhat fandom last week, and I explained to him one of my deepest fears:


Snacky: my bff's 12 year old daughter is a huge One Direction fan
Snacky: she texts me pics of them
Snacky: I am just praying that she doesn't have a tumblr
John: she sits you down in tears
John: "there's this monster out there," she says. "its name is AJA"
John: and you'll say "it's pronounced asia"

Comments

[torachan]

This is totally beside the point, but omg it is? I have been pronouncing her name wrong all these years. XD

[crantz]

I still usually do, and Snacky patiently corrects me. Damnit, it looks like Ah-jah

[torachan]

It does! And tbqh I'm probably going to continue pronouncing it that way even after this revelation. XD

[crantz]

It's a hard habit to break. And people know what I mean, anyway.

[snacky]

Glad to be of assistance! :D

[phosfate]

I figured it was like the Steely Dan album.

[snacky]

Me too!

[lilacsigil]

My 9-year-old nephew is a huge One Direction fan but I know for sure he doesn't go on Tumblr, so he's safe...for now!

[snacky]

Aw, baby fan! It's adorable, but ominous, because you know what's out there!

[sorchar]

Teenhat! I love it.

Also, I seriously don't know how Aja manages to do this in every fandom she's in.

[ymfaery]

It's her special mutant ability?

[snacky]

In Aja's defense, she wasn't actually IN this fandom, she was just writing about tinhats in her article, and used them as an example as a group of true believers.

Then they flooded the comments to call her a homophobe and a bully and a fucking peasant, and threaten to sue her, thus proving her point pretty well.

[sorchar]

Ohhhh. I actually didn't realize she wrote the article. *facepalm*

[dorothy1901]

Asia, really? Huh. I've been mentally pronouncing it ay-jah. I have learned something new! (I have also re-experienced something old, namely Aja ==> kerfuffle.)

[ymfaery]

I don't think I can ever remember Aja = Asia because there's a bento place here called Aja, and "A-jya" is how the Japanese pronounce it.

Also, teenhats are gonna hat. ;)