[ SECRET POST #2686 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2686 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Controversial opinions

[(Anonymous)]

I think the online fandom community before 2007 was better than it is now.

Re: Controversial opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Why 2007, anon?

Re: Controversial opinions

[(Anonymous)]

It's the year Youtube included ads.

Re: Controversial opinions

[(Anonymous)]

You mean pre- Sept. 11th. 2001 don't you? Fandom post 9/11 is just full of full on fascists ranting about executing people for the greater good. It is depressing.

Re: Controversial opinions

[dethtoll]

Boy, what fandoms do YOU go to?

Re: Controversial opinions

[(Anonymous)]

...whaaaaat.

Re: Controversial opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Tar roads anon, is that you having a bad day?

Re: Controversial opinions

[(Anonymous)]

I'd say the opposite honestly... people were VERY anti-Bush, and it got a little insane at points, actually. I wasn't a fan of Bush either and I still had issues with the way people would express their dislike of the guy.

Re: Controversial opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Folks wouldn't be half so bad on Bush if it hadn't been for the way the Florida courts and his brother behaved during his first election. I think it would have come out that he won anyway, but they way they behaved during the counting just made it look like there was something fishy going on there. That and invading Iraq on such spurious grounds, should have genuinely finished the job in Afghanistan first before opening up any new fronts. And there were worse tyrants in Africa than Saddam was that deserved toppling if America was going activist.

Re: Controversial opinions

[dethtoll]

The weird irony is that the US had seriously ramped up humanitarian aid to Africa under the Bush administration. (Granted, it wasn't perfect with the involvement of FBOs, but still!)

Say what you will about literally everything else Bush did, but our involvement in Africa I think laid a few bits of groundwork for making Africa a better place, something that I think Obama has let lapse, which I find interesting in the face of China moving in to build roads and business ties. You'd think we'd be on top of that.

And of course, things like the kidnapped Nigerian girls, or the anti-gay laws in Uganda and elsewhere, shows there's still a lot of work to do.

Re: Controversial opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, for sure. I think the whole internet was, honestly... but I think the internet was mostly fandom or fandom types anyway, plus gardening/DIY type websites and homepages teenagers put up with silly music that best exemplified their ~~randomly weird lol~~ personalities. But one of my fandoms was also epically big (Harry Potter) and apparently even in 2005, that really was the exception.

Re: Controversial opinions

[kallanda_lee]

I sort of was :( Or maybe I'm just old now.

Re: Controversial opinions

[nightscale]

Idk, I think a lot of the fandom nastiness just blew past me back then or I didn't see it because I didn't hang out on any of the blogging platforms back then.

Re: Controversial opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. I'd even take it up to about 2010 and back. But then it just went down the shitter.

Re: Controversial opinions

[otakugal15]

2007 due to the LJ Strikethrough? Cause I can kind of sorta see how that may have contributed to what it is now. the major backlash over the bannings and stuff...yeah.

Re: Controversial opinions

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I certain blame it, Strikethrough caused the start of the LJ exodus, which left a lot of people drifting so when Tumblr happened, Fandom gravitated to it.

Re: Controversial opinions

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I blame Strikethrough.