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Lots of people have been bringing this up: what do you think about having the secret makers put the fandom in the image itself, rather than the name-the-fandom thread? Like a note at the bottom of the image (eta: or a note in the comment itself) that says:

fandom: Dr. Who, or fandom: House, or fandom: fanfiction/fanart/rp, or fandom: Pokemon/Twilight Crossover with a Bella the Bellsprout and her sparkly vampire virgin pikachu boyfriend

I'd go into effect starting with the next subs post (so everything submitted this week is fine, don't worry). The first comment would still be there for repeats and stuff like that.

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What if the fandom is so small, spilling it would reveal the maker's identity?
If they didn't want to name the fandom, they probably wouldn't name characters or anything, right? So if it were like "I ship this one character with this other one, but no one else does and I feel alone, but this fandom is so small everyone would know it's me // fandom: character shipping"? That could work.

Does the fandom tag have to be on the image itself?
On second thought, probably not. You could just include it in the comment you put the link in, and that would work, too!

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No. Eet ees an artistic thing. Most people make lazy ugly secrets, it's true, but some people go the extra effort to make nice-looking ones and I wouldn't want them marred by needing the fandom slapped on the bottom.

Please tell me you're not serious, right?

It's

annwyd. Of course she is. *eyeroll*

Why not? If you didn't want your secrets looking nice, you'd just blab them on an anon meme somewhere instead of going to the effort of making an image.

I mean, I don't really care that much either way--it's just

fandomsecrets, after all. But I don't see why it's such a shock that some people like secrets that are visually appealing. That was the original point of

postsecret, pretty much.

...Dude, that really IS pretentious.

So? I like that people can make secrets however they want, so long as they follow the basic 600x600 no-personal-attacks make-sure-it's-actually-a-secret rules.

...and in case it wasn't clear enough from the dumb French accent spelling, the "eet ees artistic" thing was a joke. Secrets aren't art. I like it when people make the effort to make them look nice, though.

Ah, damn, that was my very first thought too. :(
*is also pretentious now*

For what it's worth, I had the same thought. But I voted yes anyway because it would cut down on so much frustration.

If the fandom can just be posted with the link (and therefore appear as text underneath the secret or whatever), I'm totally all for it.

Yeah, that I'd like. Although I still think that people should be allowed to forgo it is they want to keep it obscure and only recognized by people who know the source well.