20 or 30 years ago, many cities had a group of nerds who would get together monthly / quarterly / annually to put on a live action RHPS and/or watch the film. They would dress up in themed/fetishy costumes to go. There was a sort of ritualised audience participation portion where the audience yelled certain things at certain times in the plot, IIRC threw popcorn, and other stuff. I don’t think I ever actually attended in one of these but I knew various people who were in the subculture. my view of it was the crowd was largely queer/bi/pan/poly/straight/genderbender white people.

• is anybody still doing this? (maybe it’s still as active as ever and I’ve just changed who I know?)

• did the internet kill it and if so, how?

• gen z: are you familiar with this phenomena?

bonus question: what is the current analysis of RHPS, particularly, but not limited to, the concept of gender as depicted?