[ SECRET POST #2819 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2819 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, this is so tumblr. And I say that as someone who likes tumblr. I don't know what it is about the atmosphere of that place and how fandom operates, but... this sort of over the top drama plays well. Maybe it helps if one's audience is younger and also prone to Super Dramatic Feels About Things, but exaggeration and the implicit demand for emotional support is not weird, somehow.

Either that, or there's some mental health issue going on. I had a friend like that: super funny and fun to be around, except that she was bipolar and when she crashed, she crashed HARD. You couldn't say a damn thing that wouldn't offend her, everything made her psychotically angry, and because she was smart and observant she would say some truly ugly shit if she thought you were "judging" her in any way. And by judging, I mean declining to hang around for more abuse.

Note: I'm not saying all bipolar people are like this, I know they're not. My friend wasn't managing her condition well.

[(Anonymous)]

A few years ago, you would have been saying "this is so deviantart" or even "this is so livejournal". BNFs in general have always had a tendency to seem normal and then go into hysterics by the drop of a hat.

[(Anonymous)]

*shrug* I've known BNFs who weren't drama queens prone to hysterics. But people tend to remember the special snowflakes.

[a_potato]

Agreed. It's not a tumblr thing (and it goes back further than livejournal; people would have public meltdowns on message boards). Tumblr seems to have made these types of people more visible, but it certainly didn't create them.

[(Anonymous)]

(original person who made the comment)

I know. I wasn't trying to say it was a phenomenon you could only find on tumblr, only that it was very common on tumblr. In some ways, I think tumblr has popularized it as a style of communication within fandom, but I'm well aware they didn't originate it.

[a_potato]

I apologize for misreading you!

I do agree that tumblr has popularized the style a bit. The platform is so focused around the individual that it almost begs for dramatics.

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, I should've been more clear that I wasn't someone who hates tumblr and considers it the fount of all evil! I like it, but I don't really do fandom stuff there.

And yeah, I agree tumblr facilitates that behavior. There'll always be someone to validate it, and reblogging makes it easier to find that validation.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, no. I don't know about Deviantart, but as someone who used LJ a lot, no, LJ was never as bad as Tumblr is. LJ was awful from time to time, Tumblr is cancer tier.