[ SECRET POST #4111 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4111 ⌋

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

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06. [SPOILERS for Avengers Infinity War]



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07. [WARNING for incest]

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #588.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Has fandom changed much in the past 10 years?

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Fandom was a lot less mainstream ten years ago, there's that; I'd like to say that it was older, but maybe it just felt like that when I was in my twenties. Since it has moved on to more mainstream social media, I think a lot of the community feeling of it has disappeared. Back then, you had to actively seek it out, it didn't accidentally show up in your feed or in any google image search.

Very rarely did people use their RL identities in fandom.

The merge between fandom and social justice was only just beginning. By 2008, you would find wank about LGBT+ issues and stuff, but it was mostly limited to specific comms. If fandom at large was going on about it, it would mostly be about specific pairings, not "representation" or whatever. I think people back then were a lot more interested in their pairings becoming canon. There were less moral judgments; you weren't a bad person for shipping the wrong thing, you were dumb and clearly deluded about canon.

Genderswap was far more common than trans fic. "Headcanon" as such didn't really exist, and thinking that a character was gay or bi was about as adventurous as it got. I think it was around 2006-7 that The Big Asexual Awakening happened, and there was a short-lived trend of writing characters being ace. With one of today's secrets in mind, "nonbinary" was not a thing back then, and if a character broke the gender mold without identifying as trans, there would not be wank about which pronoun to use. No-one would insist that Kino was "they" when the original show aired.

"Wank" was universally understood. Icons were the big graphic thing, rather than gifs. Art theft was a big issue. You were judged for posting fic to FFN, rather than LJ. Dub vs. sub was a Thing in anime fandoms.