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F!S Anon Meme (the Tenth?)

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b. Positivity thread
c. What do you think of other F!S members?
d. Best Comments thread
e. Canceled Shows thread
f. Confessions thread
g. TMI thread
h. Which fictional character would you be...
i. "Is this offensive?"
j. In the good ol' days of fandom...
k. Popular fanfic you don't like
l. Really weird things you read in fanfics

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I wish I knew what was going to be the next fandom juggernaut on the HP or Ranma level. Both of those were all consuming at their height, but then the 'net was so much smaller then. And had much less just *likes* and more actual comments, emails, forum postings, and webrings with comment sections. I feel there has been a step backwards recently to just consuming media without talking about it in any real depth.

I'm sort of surprised The Hunger Games wasn't like that, but I think by the time it got a lot of hype, the second book had already been released, so there also wasn't the epic gap Harry Potter fandom got. Plus, you also have a point that the internet's larger and people are more inclined to react to media with a casual shrug. To be honest, that's how people are in real life - it's why I liked the internet so much in the first place. Which sucks.

I dunno, Hunger Games always felt a bit too manufactured to be popular to me. It was very calculated to hit certain demographics, but didn't really have anything to appeal beyond that demographic. HP-verse succeeded because there was so much insane background detail that Rowling put in that there was a bit of it for everyone. Plus it had the whole "hidden world" thing going for it, running alongside our own, so that helped people imagine how they could interact with it. Hunger Games didn't have that.

I suppose the closest thing to it is the MLP fandom (note to self: change icon, its giving the wrong impression) which is pretty popular, but has picked up a hatedom because of the talking animal thing. Its one thing to fantasize about your teenself snogging Snape, it is quite another to imagine your pony self snogging a pony. That is squickier (although, frankly I felt people wanting to snog Snape was pretty wrong too).

Pretty sure that FiM's hatedom has less to do with the talking animal thing than the misbehavior of certain segments of its fanbase.

I think it's more a combination of it getting so big that it got hype backlash, furry hate, hate towards older guys taking over a girl's fandom, and a really big haterboner towards it from certain parts of sjw tumblr. The behavior I've seen from it really isn't any worse than any other major fandom, but it seems like people not involved in the fandom at all go out of their way to make fun of it.

I gotta say, I've seen more people complaining about misbehavior than I have the misbehaving. Of course, icon notwithstanding, I'm not really a fan of the show beyond having caught a couple of episodes while kids have been viewing the tv. Is it just people imagining their ponyselves making out with the canon ponies, or is there worse?

Why do you have an icon for a show that you're not a really a fan of?

I just googled "goofy face", well goofy face -disney, and this came up. I must get around to finding another one.

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