Mandy Olson is the Senior Community Manager, Entertainment working on the Community Experience team. Her mission is to provide the best fan experience for the top Movies, TV, Books, Music, and Lifestyle wikis, but she is also passionate about celebrating and serving the global Fandom community through her various Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts. Outside of Fandom, you can probably find her binging horror films, making fan art, or getting tattoos. Sometimes all at once.
History[]
Mandy joined Fandom in 2015 and has been hooked ever since. She first started out spending WAY too much time discussing theories on various wiki forums, before eventually becoming addicted to wiki editing. She has been an admin on a wide variety of Movies/TV wikis throughout the years, but her claim to wiki fame was resurrecting the RuPaul's Drag Race Wiki from the dead and building it into the empire it is today, which is how she got offered a Wiki Manager position in 2019. In 2020, she became a full-time Staff member, and she still can't believe she actually got hired here. It feels like a fever dream.
Community Connect Involvement[]
Mandy attended both virtual Community Connect 2021 events, but Community Connect 2022 was her first IRL Connect experience, where she participated in the Fandom Through the Years panel, and totally did not cry afterwards at the amount of applause she received. If at any point you saw her walking around in a messy bun wearing sunglasses indoors... no you didn't.
Trivia[]
- She grew up in one of the saddest cities in the U.S. (yes, that is a real thing)
- Her username is based on the "I don't know her" Mariah Carey meme.
- She is a huge fan of horror and has essentially made it her entire personality.
- SAW is her ultimate horror obsession, and she also happens to be an admin on SAW Wiki.
- She's a Scorpio, if that wasn't already obvious.
- She is stuck in a perpetual emo phase.
- Rap God is her go-to karaoke song.
- She has been a self-taught portrait artist since age 10.
- She led the creation of the LGBTQIA+ Wiki, which has been one of her favorite projects to date.
- She slept on the streets of NYC for 9 whole days just to get front row tickets to see the original Broadway cast of Hamilton before they left the production. If that doesn't prove her level of insanity, I don't know what does.
- Her tattoos do not have meaning, so don't bother asking. She simply had money and no one stopped her.
- Her (not so) hidden talent is being able to cry on command.
- She loves using her double jointed knees to freak people out.
- Itsbartbytheway is her sworn mortal enemy.
Testimonials[]
- “For what it’s worth Mandy I think you’d be an excellent cult leader”
- “i had no idea you were like the jeff bezos of animal crossing”
- “today I learned you’re a sociopath”
- “you're a little witch”