[ SECRET POST #4113 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4113 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 55 secrets from Secret Submission Post #589.
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

[fscom]

06. https://i.imgur.com/zY5KSAs.png

[(Anonymous)]

I only think this is true for small fandoms or small communities. Maybe that's what LJ is like now, but back in the day fandoms were huge and I didn't know anybody in particular except for my mutual Friends.

[(Anonymous)]

LJ/DW reminded me more of Reddit. You mostly ignore the gigantic or default groups which is full of typical stupid casual shooting-the-shit and focus on the very small hyper-focused subreddits you like. You start to recognize the regular users. Each community has its own unspoken etiquette and are mostly or completely disconnected from the others. The activity level is lower but more streamlined and on topic. Antis don't intrude anywhere except by forming their own communities because community moderation is available and active, which is a plus in my book.

Tumblr reminded me of Facebook. You "friend" users you know or like or think you like, pick the tags you like and are spammed with everything in them, good and bad. Lots of tags overlap with other things, so people hop community lines and etiquette are blurred and cause drama. There are some big name prolific or popular accounts but there's no sense of community. Just masses of faceless "fans of A/B ship" love em or hate em. There's no way to moderate what goes in a tag or shows up in your feed or not without you "unfriending" or blacklisting each thing specifically, after you've unfortunately already seen it. On the plus side, there is tons more sheer content.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with your analysis, but the tons of content is mostly brainless chain-letter crap.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I think both sites have equal amounts of brainless chain-letter crap, but it's just harder to avoid on Tumblr.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with this. I've never been in juggernaut fandoms so maybe that's why, but I always felt like the awkward cousin trying to interact with a tight community that just had no need or space for me with LJ. Tumblr is much more spread out, with quicker, less personal interactions, so I feel less anxiety and less like a tryhard trying to fit in.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel this so much. And I don't even really lurk.

[(Anonymous)]

For me, tumblr is like being homeless in a big city while DW is like having my own little studio apartment in a big city.

[(Anonymous)]

This though.

[(Anonymous)]

I want my own studio apartment in a big city... is DW really even that active?

[(Anonymous)]

Depends on your fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

This.

[(Anonymous)]

That's exactly how I felt when I moved to tumblr from LJ. It was so freeing, no longer having to do or be what the Reigning Powers of the Small LJ Clique thought was fun and acceptable.

I think the most surprising thing when I moved to tumblr was finding out that people still actually posted plot bunnies and fic! Like, just because they felt like it! Without the framework of rules or commitments or moderators! Amazing.

[(Anonymous)]

But people did that on LJ (and now DW) all the time. I don't know what fandoms you were in that it was so different.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, same. My LJ experience was great because once you found the comms that featured your preferred ship, it was like home. Of course you did have some people who were telling you that you 'shipped it wrong' but it's not like Tumblr, where people are constantly flooding the tags with hate. That shit would get shut down on LJ, unless you had bad mods.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah but if your fandom wasn't big enough for there to be individual ship comms...

Plus maybe this was just me, a lot of the comms were so close knit, it was impossible to make friends. Coming in to a new fandom was much more intimidating and high pressure for me. I never made any fandom friends on LJ/DW, and I have on tumblr.

[(Anonymous)]

Sure they did. In 2005. 2015 not so much.

[(Anonymous)]

People didn't post much of anything on LJ anymore by 2015.

[wannabe_influential]

This is a really cute metaphor :)

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, you just helped me figure out why tumblr just hasn't clicked for me. I'm apparently your polar opposite! I'm the kind of person who prefers a small, tight-knit social circle to the more impersonal "I've got 1,000 friends" style others have.

Different strokes for different folks, and all that.

So thank you!

[(Anonymous)]

Are you very young? I'm genuinely confused. This is just not a depiction of Fandom As Such.

But I guess that's why it's a secret: You know it's just your Own View On Things.

[(Anonymous)]

Tumblr as city works for more shallow interactions, lack of community, and far more antisocial behavior. I miss actual interactions and communities.