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For me, it's fandom c. 2010 or so. Back when kinkmemes were still at all active, landcomms were a thing, and watch-alongs sometimes happened. It seemed like people did fandom "for fun" a lot more, back then. People just seemed... happier, or at least not as difficult to please.

I wish I could combine two eras. I love now where you can get your fic all in one place. But I also wish kink and commentfic memes were still a thing. :(

I miss active show comms, where people discussed, and not just while the show was airing but after. I never got the "well it's on hiatus so there's nothing to discuss" mentality afterward.

Also, meta. I don't care about shipping at all. I just want more meta.

I adore meta and I can't find nearly enough of it anymore.

Thirding. I really miss meta!!

That's because SJWs weren't policing the crap out of everything and labeling people "problematic" and sending death threats over fictional character pairings.

It used to be you could write a rape fic, warn for it for the sake of people who can't handle that and enjoyed yourself.

Now anyone who writes rape fic must be a rapist and scorned 5ever.

I won't get into race and gender crap being dragged into everything because that pisses me off. Most of the SJWs who call racism are white as snow anyway.

I have never spoken to an SJW who had any concept of nuance in anything. Their black and white thinking is ruining fandom.

I have never spoken to an SJW who had any concept of nuance in anything.

This is.....ironic.

DA

How?

ONLY THE SITH BELIEVE IN ABSOLUTES

Yeah, my fandom experience peaked around 2006-2010 and has never been the same since the tumblr migration and my own inability to be as committed to it. There was always wank, sometimes with the SJ posturing but often not. I mean, who wouldn't trade today's anti's for yesterday's snapewives?

when I first got into fandom @2000 it was mostly BBS. I had a lot of fun until 2010 or so.

idk it's a toss-up. I loved the pre-LJ days (late 90s-early 00s). Everything was shrines on webrings, email zines, ICQ, forums, etc. Fandom was so much smaller then, and it really felt more rewarding to participate in, especially for gamers imo.

I also had a lot of fun in the immediate aftermath of strikethrough, when a lot of my fandoms didn't have a platform so they scattered to different image boards. Even though it was scattered it felt a lot more connected because there was such an emphasis on sharing links and making rec lists and stuff like that. In a lot of ways it was like the pre-LJ days.

I definitely miss the LiveJournal days. I was in a lot of fun fic communities and exchanges. It was a difficult time for me personally but fandom was still a good place to be. Though I definitely agree that there was always wank and fandom was never a place where everybody got along.

yeah, me too.

Agreed. Fandom seemed much more centralized on LJ, especially with communities dedicated to specific fandoms or even pairings. As much as I love Tumblr I struggle to connect with the fandom because parsing through tags is tedious and confusing.

When people weren't getting death threats for creative content on the regular.

I miss the LJ comms, things were a bit easier when we could separate everyone into their respective camps, we're all too jumbled together currently and tumblr's tagging system is shite so posts that aren't even tagged with a thing end up in the tags because it was mentioned in the post. And that never ends well.

I do like how much easier it is to find fic these days and I enjoy tumblr for the gifs, it could just do with people actually facing consequences for being shitheads.

Fandom was never wank-free though, it was just hidden better. Either by being behind an f-lock or a rant-post on someone's journal that wouldn't be found by the people it was ragging on.

And honestly people would send hateful messages back then, it was just a lot more effort to do(had a fandom friend who got hate-mail for 2 solid months before the person behind it got bored and stopped).

I had a troll on LiveJournal who really hated the way I wrote a certain pairing. They used to show up on almost every fic to tell me why it sucked and I sucked.

I was reminded of this a few weeks ago when someone responded to one of the comments, which was ten years old, to sympathize with the troll and tell them everyone on LiveJournal sucks. I don't even know how they found it.

When fandoms had their own message boards.

There were some very nice muds and usenet groups back in the day. Early furry was more about art and roleplay and less about fursuits, fursonas, otherkin, or yiffing.

I would say late 90s to very early 2010s, with maybe 2002-2007 being my favorite time, personally. I liked message boards. I miss when more of fandom was on LJ or similar platforms. I liked LotR fandom during and shortly after when the movies were released, and Doctor Who fandom when the new series first came along, and several smaller fandoms I was in during that time, which were fun and non-wanky and I had such a good time discussing stuff with people on social media platforms where discussion could actually happen.

Yeah, I'd have to say that I probably enjoyed fandom most in the good 'ol LJ days. You had comms dedicated to pairings, and they were modded, so for the most part (unless you had shitty/absent mods) wank was kept at bay. Plus yeah, I miss kink memes, I did most of my writing due to kink memes.

Now you have all these antis shitting on your fun or people coming at you because your ship is problematic and ugh... :/

I miss the LJ days, when there were lots of comms related to your particular show or fandom or OTP. I tended to find my fanfic on the archives, more than the LJ comms, but the LJ comms were great for discussions about the episodes, and thinkpieces and meta.

I think the meta comms were an early casualty of the beginnings of the call-out culture, whenever any of the discussions touched on anything "problematic". After a becoming a lightning rod for controversy, I'm not surprised the meta comms ended up dying on the vine. But damn, do I miss the meta. :-(

LJ from about 2005-2012. Fuck that was the best time.

Honestly, 2000-ish, pre-LJ. I was a teenager just getting onto the internet, and I learned so much from having to learn HTML and the basics of how the internet works, hanging around forums and mailing lists and making friends a lot more organically than hitting a "follow" button. Sure, everything was slow and everything was not-as-good as now, but being on the internet then was, in retrospect, being the pioneers setting out to explore a universe that could give us everyting.

...yeah I really love the www and have been less than impressed by how social media works.

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