[ SECRET POST #5187 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5187 ⌋

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


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[Gnosia]


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[I Care a Lot (on Netflix)]


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[X-Files]


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[Lolita Fashion Youtuber Tyler Willis]


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09. [SPOILERS for The Story of Yanxi Palace]



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10. [WARNING for discussion of pedophilia/child molestation]

























Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #742.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Let me introduce you to Livejournal and why no one uses it now.

(the incident that drove almost all of pan fandom off that site, started with a piece of fanart of Snape and a 17 year old Harry Potter).

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't know that. What happened?

[(Anonymous)]

It didn't. This is a tumblrite trying to throw shade.LJ died because the Russians took it over. And because too many younger fans preferred an echo chamber to conversation.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think the preference for an echo chamber has much to do with age... I mean there are definitely plenty of those on facebook for older generations.

But I came here to say that the Russian takeover of LJ happened after a HUGE swath of deletions, and a lot of 'where do we go now?'-ing among fans in groups affected by the takedowns. It's not 'tumblrite shade', it's a thing that happened.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, was there, can confirm. Basically, the LJ exodus happened in stages. And the big, first stage definitely got started thanks to Strikethrough, when LJ went on a moral crusade on behalf of its advertisers and deleted user fanworks (like the aforementioned Snape/Harry fanart) -- primarily *queer* user fanworks. That was when they were still owned by SixApart. A big chunk of fandom left after that, but a lot of people were still sticking around because, at the time, nobody was really sure what the best alternative would be. But the users who stuck around were *not* happy and gave SixApart a lot of (well deserved) shit. There were a lot of mini-exoduses during that period, because 6A kept making changes to LJ that the userbase was very unhappy about.

Eventually, with the userbase dwindling and therefore less eyeballs for advertisers, 6A sold LJ to the Russian company that owns it to this day. This was basically LJ's death knell, given that the company in question was known for not respecting user privacy (especially for users in their own country). The selling of LJ to Russia did indeed kick off its last, big exodus... but it all definitely got its start with the deletion of fandom content under the guise of "protecting the children".