This Toxic Fandom

The bois are back to where it all began with an EXTRA chaotic episode to start of Season 9 of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars! The girls are tasked with choreographing and dancing to the song Drag Queens Save The World, and the bois are going to need someone to save them as they talk about Dear Evan Hanson, pretend to be Miss Vanjie, and get out the sillies after an amazing season! Will the bois be caped crusaders, or will they be cra...

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...

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 e...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 g...

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 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...

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...

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 ...

Content Warning: For some reason Joe brings up ALF of all things?! Do you remember ALF? He's back! In reference form! Steven may never recover. We're down to 11 girls and after a fun flamenco number they're forced to be THE DOLLS and create their very own fashion doll! Marketing, storytelling, and fashion all clash in the toy aisle as some girls get the prompt, some girls flounder, some girls panic and drink something they shouldn'...

Well, it's time to ask the age-old question: Does RuPaul actually know what ASMR is? The girls are broken up into teams for maximum carnage and forced to write lyrics to RuPaul's latest ear-worms such as ASMR Lover, Star Baby, and one other song I can't remember but will inevitably be humming for the rest of the week. One of the contestants continues to be a bully but a really ineffective one and we have OPINIONS on Dawn and the li...

It's not live and we're not in New York but dammit, we have a show to talk about and we're gonna make it work! The bois talk about Cher, the talents of a certain Plane, and much All Stars 8 we have RDR Live, a parody of SNL, which has devolved into a parody of itself. Like do we need to celebrate a show that came out forever ago, possibly lost it's luster, but matters because it's made some pop-culture icons that define generations...

The bois bring back their honory boi (I guess goil?) Kayla as they talk about 48 looks and nearly die from all the fashion! Or just die from having to talk about 48 looks! Either way - Holy crap that's a lot of clothes to look at! The runways include Mother Goose, a famous mom (or really just anyone you can justify) and then making clothes for your mother out of clothes for your father! Clothes out of clothes, why hasn't anyone don...

The bois are gathered in Time's Square with a bunch of cardboard signs and they're DETERMINED to get X-Tina off of Carson's top 10 and get Brittney back in there because she deserves it! Oh, wait, no, it's the second part of the season 16 premiere! We meet seven new queens that make them go bananas, stop by the DMV with two special guest stars, and wonder: Why would you give the premiere guest star a bunch of air horns? We'll see b...

Adult film star and generally amazing person joins the bois as they dive into the first real season of RuPaul's Drag Race they've watched since the podcast began! Hooray! No more asterisks and only one uncomfortable photoshoot! In the premiere episode, seven new queens join the title of Ru Girl as they put on a talent show that's inexplicably hosted by Derrick Berry (who's less of a get as Joel Someone IMHO) and themed after an MTV...

The season may be over, but that doesn't mean the bois don't have something to say about a Christmas movie that needs some Jesus. As Steven has a mental breakdown over poor writing, Joe tries to summarize it, and David... Actually seems to have a good time, good for them. Available on Paramount+ until it inevitably gets consolidated into a megacorporation for the holidays, join us as we watch what may be the worst Christmas special...

After ten weeks of shocking swerves, zigs, and zags, we've come to Coronation Street (or just a coronation!) and will finally see which one of our top three finalists will take home the crown and scepter and a show in a basement in Los Angeles! Ah, the glamorous life of a Drag Queen. For this celebration the bois have broken out their hottest takes, the silliest fakes, and Steven possibly stepped on a rake! Or he just needed a rhym...