[ SECRET POST #2861 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2861 ⌋

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

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously, it is really not any worse now than it has been in the past fifteen years (the limit of my experience).

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, this is my perspective as well. As someone who's been in fandom since the early 2000s, I feel like most people who clutch their pearls over the current state of fandom either haven't been here very long, or haven't been paying attention. Do they know anything at all about the history of fandom...?

[(Anonymous)]

Didn't a HUGE part of fandom basically start with Kirk/Spock slash anyway?

At least, organized media fandom?

[(Anonymous)]

Yup, it did. That's why it's so baffling to me when people posit shipping as being responsible for what they insist to be the decline of fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, shipping created modern day fan fiction. Not just shipping, but specifically slash shipping.

I've met genfic aficionados who think like the OP, but really, they've got it the wrong way around. Genfic is not the norm in either fanfic or published fiction.

The latter especially is a polite fable that's maintained by the media, I think in the hope that the average man isn't even more scared off reading books.

[(Anonymous)]

it's just young people who were "in fandom" (ie, were really into a show with their friends at the lunch table/maybe went with a con supervised by mom) suddenly discovering the metric fuckton of porn now that they're grown and don't have content filters on their computers. It's ALWAYS been there, and it always will be. Once you get over the shock you might even enjoy it, op!

[iggy]

Definitely. I've been in fandom since the nineties, and shipfic is no more prominent now than it was back then.