[ SECRET POST #4850 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4850 ⌋

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[yuuago]

When I was backreading things, there seemed to be a lot of people who were making fanworks for it based on trailers, screencaps, and plot summaries, at least early on.

This used to be super common back when it wasn't easy to get your hands on certain anime canon, so I guess it's nothing new, really.

[(Anonymous)]

This is definitely a more recent development in fandom I have to say, how early are you talking about? Since from the 90's on, I've never seen people stick to inaccurate characterization like this, and I was really into anime as a kid.

[yuuago]

I'm thinking circa 2000 or so, especially in fandoms like Gundam Wing. There were a lot of people on FFNet who were writing it and reading it that had never actually watched it, or if they had, maybe only a few episodes.

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ayrt

Huh, I never saw that myself but then again I was never big on Gundam Wing. It was widely available where I when I was growing up, and the 2000's were huge on pirating so it wouldn't be too hard to find it. Oh course you're right that it wasn't perfect, but overall people seemed to actually care about how OOC their writing was.
Sorry if I'm sounding a little testy, I just get frustrated about these types of things. It does vary depending on the fandom for sure.

[yuuago]

Varies depending on fandom... and demographics. It sounds like you knew an older crowd than I did. Even if we had had access to the entire canon (which we didn't), our characterization wouldn't have been very good no matter how much effort we put into it. ;)

[(Anonymous)]

Absolutely. Like it's all interpretation for the most part, it happens a lot where I see a character way different than the common characterization, but so long as I get where they're coming from I actually like to see the different aspects of the character, it's only when there's like zero likeness I get annoyed;; It's probably what I liked most about old fandom was the different interpretations people tended to have about characters, now it's just one or none.
But honestly, I was just been lucky with the fandoms I was in. It's crazy drastically the fans will change even in fandoms that even seem like they'd be overlapping. It's a lottery;;