[ SECRET POST #4972 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4972 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"I spent a lot of time as a young girl being mocked or, at the least, lonely because I had odd interests. Now they're apparently hip enough people are pretending at them? Exaggerating them? It's just baffling. And yet somehow I still wind up getting weird looks when I try having an actual conversation about whatever fandom topic."

That's because casual fans aren't aware of what deep fandom is. They're not aware that there are thousands of nerds like us on tumblr sharing meta and (maybe) they vaguely know that there's probably fanfic. So when they say they're a huge fan of something, they mean it, because they're just not aware.

Every hobby is like this. Casual knitters don't give a shit about Ravelry drama. People who go to church once a week and don't think about it the rest of the time except when they pray for some sick person on Facebook don't know that there are extensive lay theological debates happening online, etc. But those people might say they're REALLY into knitting and religion.

I think the "I was bullied for being into geek stuff so now I resent casual fans" point is extremely weak, personally. Nobody cares what other people experienced in 8th grade.

[(Anonymous)]

This is a good take, the comparisons to other hobbies is good.