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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2019-08-24 04:00 pm

[ SECRET POST #4614 ]


⌈ Secret Post #4614 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2019-08-24 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
To be fair, I think a lot of it happened because today's early 20 something fans grew up in a) Tumblr-oriented fandom instead of message-board oriented fandom and b) got their first exposure to social justice while they were also just discovering fandom. Since tumblr is so disjointed and more of a youthful place, they didn't get the slightly more organized fandom format where "fandom elders" (really just adults in fandom) modeled behavior. There's been fandom drama forever, but it was limited to who had access to the internet before, and now it's pretty much everyone.

All of this has resulted in them equating IRL morals with what you enjoy in fandom and fiction and thinking that harassment is a-okay if it's in the name of "the greater good." And the people who would have been problems in fandom no matter what the platform now hide behind "this isn't a ship war, I'm just making sure pedos stop posting!" even when it's grossly not related at all, and still not applicable even on the rare occasion it is related.