[ SECRET POST #4483 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4483 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

Maybe your fandom was waning before Tumblr. Mine wasn't.

[(Anonymous)]

They said fan discussion, not fandom

[(Anonymous)]

It's almost as though fan discussion tapers off as fandoms lose members.

[(Anonymous)]

Perhaps tumblat didn't start the fire, but it certainly accelerated it.

[(Anonymous)]

I think the waning was a little too gradual for me because I didn't notice it happening, so when I had to take a break from fan discussions to deal with real life problems and came back, the change in the way fandom operated felt extremely sudden. I think I probably would've noticed if I had stuck around message boards instead of taking a break from them.

[cloudtrader]

I think Tumblr had something to do with the waning, but yeah, there was also the broader access to more STUFF that accelerated fandom discourse die-off, too. Social media, more things to go do/see/read around the internet, etc. When the internet was mostly text, of course text was what we mostly did.

[(Anonymous)]

From my perspective, it appeared to be a combination of the rise of tumblr as the new cool thing, people getting pissy at Livejournal for various reasons, and some relatively large fandoms that had traditionally carried on via message boards or LJ comms waning in popularity simply due to age/lack of canon output. Thus, when new large fandoms arose, they didn't necessarily model their online presence after the message boards/LJ comm fandoms because those were less popular, and I don't know if there's any way you can just set up a message board for free, and everybody hates LJ for one reason or another, and meanwhile there's this cool new thing called tumblr...

[(Anonymous)]

I'm desperate for journal formats to become popular again and for Tumblr/Twitter-esque social media platforms to burn away completely. Twitter somehow managed to piss me off even more than Tumblr, which is saying a lot because Tumblr was a big bloody thorn in my side. Ahhhh, it feels so good not to have accounts in either place anymore. Blocked a bunch of other shitsites from my browser too and the internet proves so much merrier without.

[(Anonymous)]

Social media was a mistake.

+ one million

[(Anonymous)]

It really was.

[(Anonymous)]

It feels like the conversation within fandom has changed; it's a different type of discussion, and there isn't as much centralization like there used to be with message boards and LJ communities. (There's way more centralization with, say, fanfic archives, which wow. That is really awesome.)

Interaction is very different, with social media, and I don't feel that's either a good thing or a bad thing. It's just a thing. Societal norms march on.

I also honestly don't feel there was as much "quality in-depth discussion" regarding fandom as I've heard people reminisce about; the general discourse feels comparable now to what it did in 1998. It's just that the format for how we talk about it has changed. (Yes, it's hard to have an actual conversation on Tumblr, but not on Twitter, for example, and it's not hard to find lengthy posts on Tumblr discussing fandom issues. It's much easier to share things you find in both cases.) I dunno. Sometimes I miss LJ and message boards, but I wouldn't give up Twitter for either of those.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I've got to agree with you. I think once the jump from LJ to Tumblr happened, that's when fandom changed for the worse and started slowly dying off.