[ SECRET POST #3012 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3012 ⌋

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

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18. [ SPOILERS for Hotline Miami ]



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[Grounded For Life]


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(Beasts of the Southern Wild)


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #430.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I've only been gone a year or so, OP, and I feel the same way.

Even before I left (and partly the reason I did) though, it was becoming increasingly clear that fandom as a whole is a very different entity to what it was five years ago. Instant gratification is up, attention spans are down. If you don't jump on the zeitgeist for a certain fandom in the first twenty minutes, you're too late and no one cares what you think/create. As soon as you do get into something, everyone's into something shiny and new. Fanfics are less stories as they are SJ manifestos. Everything's problematic and even if it's not then it needs a sixty-page meta to justify why you have so much as a passing fondness for it.

You can blame/credit (depending on your POV) Tumblr for that, but honestly it's probably just the way fandom's evolving with the current generation of fans and how they interact with their world.

[(Anonymous)]

Instant gratification is up, attention spans are down.

In a nutshell, yes.

The weirdest part for me is that some of the best fic writers in my fandom migrated to tumblr and promptly stopped writing anything longer than 2 or 3 sentences. If someone had told me 5 years ago that would happen, I would have laughed myself sick.

I know it's an oversimplification, but sometimes I wonder if the continual diet of shiny is making people stupid.

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AYRT

I don't know if it's making people stupid as much as it's making them complacent.

When you can get three-digit notes on Tumblr for a 500 word stream of something that isn't even a drabble, why put the effort into a 5000 word - or god forbid 50,000 word - fic just for a couple of comments on AO3?

I found zero gratification in that, either as a reader or as a creator, so I quit. No one was interested in lengthy, complex fic that a reader needed to engage with on even a slightly deeper level than fluff/PWP/character studies masquerading as fic. And besides, if you didn't write it in the first couple of weeks of a fandom's Tumblr existence then as far as fans were concerned it didn't exist. You'd missed the boat.

It's like anything else; if you don't have to work for something then you see no value in it. Fandom's become very transient that way.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeeeep

[(Anonymous)]

I must be really lucky or something, because this hasn't been my experience at all. I got into one of my fandoms almost two years late and there's still activity and interest in fic.