[ SECRET POST #3891 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3891 ⌋

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Comments

I'd say the flavor has changed some, but the terrible person thing still existed.

[(Anonymous)]

NA

Back when (circa 1993), it used to be you were gross and wrong and stupid if you shipped slash versus het, or, out of fandom circles, you were gross and wrong and stupid and weird if you admitted to being into fanfic at all. The scope has definitely changed, because fandom has grown a lot and is no longer hiding in the shadows. A lot of the really bad wank was somewhat easier to ignore because there were so many fewer people doing fandom and even the wanksters were quieter because they didn't want to catch the attention of the moralizing non-fandomites.

Re: I'd say the flavor has changed some, but the terrible person thing still existed.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I remember those and I agree that they were bad, but those examples I feel only prove my point. When you shipped slash, you were gross and wrong... for shipping slash, because you were a slash shipper. When you shipped at all, you were gross... for shipping, because you were a shipper. People went after you for the things you did.

Now people skip directly to who they assume you are, and assume your ships are reflective of everything else in your life. Your pairings are a lot of white people? You must be racist in real life. You ship a 17 year old with a teacher? You must be a pedophile apologist and defend real life pedophiles.

The focus is different, and what is being attacked is different.

Re: I'd say the flavor has changed some, but the terrible person thing still existed.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt, but yes, I would agree with your assessment of fandom today vs the past. There's definitely been a shift. I've wondered if it is the fact that fandom is much larger now, that it's much more well known and acknowledged and not really the subculture it used to be, and with the larger influx of people, the cultural norms around fandom etiquette shifted. The dogpiling and virtue signalling seems to be a norm of the internet as a whole these days. :-/