[ SECRET POST #3543 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3543 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Back in the day nobody tried to make themselves seem special at all. It was just understood that we were weird and we didn't fit in with the normal kids and finally we were among our own kind who enjoyed the geeky entertainment.


It's true that people competed to try to be the super-fan of the world by knowing ever more obscure trivia but it wasn't a personal statement of who they were.

But nowadays it's sometimes more like group therapy that happens to also like a certain TV show.

[(Anonymous)]

+1000000000

[(Anonymous)]

Unscrew those nostalgia goggles a few notches. There have always been people in fandom who've tried desperately to be the bestest and most specialest ever. The only difference back in the day is that the typical fan discussion formats were more compartmentalized than things like Tumblr, where pretty much everything is out in the open.

[(Anonymous)]

Not to mention that back then the level of social media and access to said media was nothing compared to what exists now, so you just plain didn't hear about the drama like you do these days.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, the bestest. But not the specialist in terms of personality traits. The bestest *fan*. Who'd met the stars the most. Who owned it on vinyl. Who was fluent in the language. That sort of thing. Not how damaged and weird they were.

But even if you're right, that's kind of the point. You could be on a bulletin board and never encounter this kind of thing if it was relegated to off-topic folders. On Tumblr there's virtually no escape.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree that the way that communities were structured made it easier to find your niche and avoid the sort of undifferentiated massing-together that Tumblr has created. But that doesn't mean that the people are somehow remarkably different. And blaming it on them is stupid.

[(Anonymous)]

You're forgetting the glory days of Snape wives, FFVII house, "you laugh because I'm different, I laugh because you're all the same". Same shit, different coating.

[(Anonymous)]

This is complete, complete bullshit. Totally unrealistic nostalgia.

It may have been how you felt back then, but it's not by any means an accurate portrayal.