[ SECRET POST #4928 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4928 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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04. https://i.imgur.com/D25cLFc.png
[Emma 2020, OP warned for male nudity (from the back)]


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[Star Wars Expanded Universe, resized]


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06. https://i.imgur.com/R7v6vL6.png
[365 Days, OP warned for image of a dub/non-con sexual situation]


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07. [SPOILERS for Far Cry 5 and Far Cry New Dawn]



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08. [SPOILERS for The Magnus Archives]



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09. [WARNING for sexual assault]



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10. [WARNING for discussion of transphobia]






















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #705.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

01. https://i.imgur.com/NE5GXPg.png

[(Anonymous)]

What?

[tabaqui]

Seconded. What?

I know I'm late but...

[(Anonymous)]

Fans become advertisers for their fandoms by purposefully and in coordination with others:
getting tags or tweets trending on twitter (a well known version was when SPN got #LuciferRising trending and got mainstream news channels to cover it because everyone went wtf is this);
purposefully rewatching videos on all devices to get them on the front page of Youtube or break count records;
spamming tags, comment sections, or voting systems, etc.
Some are even used for the power of good, like kpop stans spamming that white power hashtag on twitter recently.

[(Anonymous)]

I suppose that's kind of true depending on the platform you're posting content to and which fandom its for. There's a big difference between posting content to a niche part of the internet and on a social media platform like twitter or instagram where not only a mass majority can see it but also the creators/actors/etcs can see it and promote it too.

[(Anonymous)]

IA it's awful but like... that's life in 2020 for ya

[(Anonymous)]

Could you give some examples, OP? I think I know what you're talking about, but I'm not a hundred percent certain.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not OP, but the way I understood the secret was that fandom in itself has always been free advertisement for the source material itself -- but maybe that has become more prolific these days since so many things a monetized.

SPN, for example -- you enjoy the show, you read/write fic, but if you want to have an even CLOSER involvement, you go to cons (which I never could afford back in HS and I certainly wouldn't pay for now -- $350 for a photo op, lmao next)

Or anything in MArvel (MCU, comic books period) -- the cons, the merch, exclusive experiences or things of that nature.

Even HP, their merch and the new play, and the new movies--

All these things have existed before, in a vast array of fandoms. But (imo) because of social media, and more access to content, content makers/creators/actors/etc., things seem more...commercial?

I have a Capt America shirt (love MCU Cap). Granted it's a comicbook version, but I still wear it. Now I am doing advertisement for MArvel/Disney (that's a HUGE one), that I/someone else paid for. And again, it's always been like this, but now there is a sense of it being much more brazen.

Op, maybe I too misunderstood you. But that was my interpretation.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT but is that free marketing? It's not like the panels and booths and actors who go to cons are going for free? The companies are paying to have them there in order to hype up fans for releases.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I'm speaking more to the fans themselves(who will pay to go to the con, buy merch, then share that content, which may lead possibly "finding new customers" aka new fans, who will then promote the material and the content -- again, nothing new, but seemingly more prolific because of the way fandom is shared now.

I think about it like this -- I come to this site. I literally had no interest in the MCU franchise, but a fanwork (a user here had a cute icon of Bucky -- I was intrigued and easily swayed by a good looking man) convinced me to go out and watch the movie(s). Knowing how much I liked that particular franchise, my brother went out and got me a Cap shirt. I then continued to invest in the franchise. Fandom advertised (inadvertently, or perhaps by the very nature of fandom itself -- you want to share and be excited about something you like, no harm or shame in that) a work that I was unfamiliar with. And then I go out and see it with friends.

I continue to say that this is nothing new, because this is the very nature of fandom, or a recommendation. Quite often, however, fandom isn't necessarily recommending itself outside of its bubble -- if I don't explore the Dragon Age fandom, I am not likely to encounter it and invest in it. However, because I did come into contact with a particular fandom through (a minor) fanwork (an icon). I don't know if I'm making sense. But yeah.

[meadowphoenix]

idk if this is what OP is talking about but the amount of writers and showrunners who push ships, specifically because they know fandom will get invested and keep watching is legion. related: twitter is just pure advertising. talking about a show on twitter is a metric shows use to sell advertisers on their shows. that's also why they push hashtags.