[ SECRET POST #3918 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3918 ⌋

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

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02.
(Dance Moms)


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03.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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04.
[In Treatment]


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05.
[Life]


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06.
[glee & buffy the vampire slayer]


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07.
[Hinterlands]











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Comments

Re: Is this right?

[(Anonymous)]

I think the difference is that in these particular fandoms, the shitty fans are genuinely the majority. In most, they're a loud but annoying minority, but just blocking a tiny handful of people takes care of most of it. In these fandoms, there's honestly no keeping up with it. There are so many shitty people. I think that's the unique aspect to them.

Re: Is this right?

[(Anonymous)]

One, if the fandom's so bad, why do you pay so much attention to it? Nothing requires you to. Even if you like a show, you can ignore the fandom if its shittiness outweighs its good qualities.

Two, it feels to me - and maybe I'm reading too much into it here - but it feels like people want to read a lot of significance into those fandoms being shitty, more than they ought. People turn it into this boogeyman almost - the terrible animated things fandom - and they point to it as evidence of why Tumblr is shit, or some political position is shit, or the whole younger generation is shit, or what have you. And i think that's giving it more significance than any of those fandoms deserve. They're just shitty fandoms. They're a dime a dozen.

Re: Is this right?

[(Anonymous)]

Eh... I mean, you're absolutely right that you can just ignore a fandom, but as someone that enjoys quite a few of those shows and likes engaging with fanworks, it's isolating and sad to not be able to do so. I've been in a lot of "shitty" fandoms, really (SPN and Sherlock to name a couple), but it was much easier in those to still find good people making good content-- maybe because of the sheer size of the fandoms? I don't really know. It's just hard to sift through all the shit in these animated fandoms to get to nice things, and that's... sad? Idk, I'm not trying to fight you or anything, I'm just expressing frustration with the situation.

As to your second point, I do think you're reading too much into it here. Yes, when you boil it down they're just shitty fandoms, bu it's a fact that they all share very noticeable negative traits, in a way that not many other fandoms do-- at least, not to the same extent. Sure, people will paint an overall picture with it (not without basis) to "prove a point," and I can see how that would be annoying, but it doesn't change that there's definitely something to it.