there’s a growing number of people who claim to “do their own research” but what they are actually doing is reading other fan blogs’ opinions and theories
real research about stunts comes from spending hours finding and reading actual information, not internet strangers’ ideas. You research queer theory, law, pr, image manipulation, hollywood and music industry history, marketing, art theory and history, and so on. Then you synthesize what you learned from many legitimate sources and use what you learned to analyze what is happening in the fandom. That’s what you write in a research post.
Regurgitating other fans’ ideas is not research. Stop calling it that.