[ SECRET POST #3352 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3352 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 032 secrets from Secret Submission Post #479.
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

Re: Not like those other fans

[(Anonymous)]

I understand. I'm not a shipper; I'm really into the plotty genfic stuff. But the ships, man, that's some of the bedrock. You can't just excise it.

Re: Not like those other fans

[herpymcderp]

Without LJ, there would be no DW or Tumblr. Without a bunch of slash fans getting together to colonize LJ, there would be no LJ.

And that would mean no fandom.

I can think of at least ten conventions that exist because they were started by people connecting on LJ, seeing that there was an audience. Plenty of fandubbing and fansubbing groups formed through the same means. Costume and wig companies for cosplay, translation groups for manga, localizers, Ao3... even fucking DeviantArt started out of people who came together ON LJ. Because of shipping.

Those kids don't even know what it was like to be a fan in the days before the heavy licensing and professional distribution of anime. The fact that they even get their Steven Universes and Korras and Adventure Times and whatever other fan culture startups is because of fandom. ...And fandom is this way largely because some really, really old fans decided they wanted a good place to talk about their Star Trek slash.

Re: Not like those other fans

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I'm not dated back to the era of Kirk/Spock, but I WAS in some of the first mailing-list clubs. Early AOL era, Usenet years. 'Estrogen Brigades.' The fandom wank of now isn't a new thing, it never was.

Shit.

People still do research about what happened in the fandom aftermath of The Sorrows of Young Werther.

Re: Not like those other fans

[herpymcderp]

Yeah, I was on a few MLs and one or two oekaki boards before I got linked to LJ. It literally changed the scope of fandom forever. Before that there was no good way to advertise or be able to talk to a lot of people without opting in to a whole bunch of stuff you might not want to opt into.

Once LJ got off the ground, fandom, merchandising, and fan culture exploded in a five year period.

It's not to say it was a new thing, but the back then it was so underground it was hard to find out about. Now you just have to turn your head and a Hot Topic exists.