[ SECRET POST #4311 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4311 ⌋

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Re: AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

But then how do you define “fandom”? What differentiates it from any other “subculture characterized by feelings of empathy and camraderie with others who share a common interest” (paraphrasing Wikipedia) other than the relative age of the source material?

Right, sure, it's a totally valid question. And I don't think that there's any one correct definition of fandom - there's a lot of really useful, different ways to talk about it.

But the way that I usually define it for most purposes - and I think it matches pretty closely with the way that people use the term in everyday conversation - is to understand fandom as, essentially, a specific subculture, a social group built around certain ways of interacting with media and pop culture with a specific, and relatively modern, history (growing mostly out of science-fiction fandom beginning in the 30s and 40s). And sometimes, even more specifically, a subset of that subculture that really deals with writing fanfiction, and shipping, and that's been associated with specific websites like FF.net, AO3, Tumblr, and Livejournal.

Of course that's only one way to define 'fandom' but I think it's a useful one. And I totally agree that nothing that fandom does is really totally new. It just takes on new features because of, like, modern cultural literacy and modern forms of communication and stuff like that. I think it's actually kind of a really interesting development. There's certainly no reason to demean it.