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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2017-08-29 06:42 pm

[ SECRET POST #3891 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3891 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2017-08-29 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm on the far flung fringes of a "problematic" ship (not really, there's just been some wank), and it is nice being on the edges and not having to deal with all the crap. I'm aware it's out there, but it doesn't directly affect me, so I don't really watch myself, or anything like that. I know what you mean, sometimes it's nicer being on the outside, and then other times I miss the camaraderie of a smaller, more personal fandom.

To be honest I don't think that most of the wank is caused by social justice or whatever; I think the pot is regularly stirred by trolls who just want to hurt people or watch others jump on/off bandwagons. I mean, why do trolls do anything? I'm personally convinced there's a bunch of "lOl Triggered much?!" white boys in their mama's basements chortling themselves sick over stirring up flack in fandoms and pretending to be SJW and/or telling people to kill themselves over their ships.

I just don't buy that it's all teens with poor judgment or people who've gone off the deep end of social justice. Nope. It's always in wild-west places of the internet, too, where there's nothing to stop anonymous posting, making new blogs every day, or spamming the tags of a ship you don't like.

I mean, back in my day, there's a load of people who would've liked to tear up the fandom communities and plow through anyone they could just to tear apart those women who were shipping "their" characters or whatever. (Meaning, white men own everything, stay out dirty girl cooties.)

I don't think things have changed that much. These days, guys like that just have more access.

Are there women involved in bullying? I'm sure there are. But I do think a lot of it is these trolls.

(Anonymous) 2017-08-30 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
How.... do you know the gender of the trolls?

(Anonymous) 2017-08-30 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
Call it a wild guess based on a lifetime of experience, anon whose gender I have no clue about. *sickly sweet smile*

(Anonymous) 2017-08-30 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
I agree with this.