Amen. I think about this kind of thing a lot. Social media has changed so much over the 15 or so years I've been in fandom and now I just don't know where I fit into it anymore. A "calm, insular fandom experience" is literally all I want and I don't know where to find it. Everywhere I go it's discourse this and drama that. Especially because my current main fandom is a kpop group, so it skews pretty young, and most people don't know what fandom was like before Twitter and in some cases, even before Tumblr.
And, like, I get that there have always been inter- and intra-fandom wars and wank, and admittedly I'm probably wearing rose-tinted glasses to a certain extent but I feel like with my first fandom, I was so lucky - we had our own little LJ community and we all respected each other and I don't remember any major drama going down. I just want that again. :(
I think that's partly why I've come back to F!S after several years of not being around (and was very pleasantly surprised to find it still active). I don't know most of the fandoms that are talked about anymore but I feel like we're all of a "generation" of fandom that maybe none of us are quite ready to say goodbye to...?
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And, like, I get that there have always been inter- and intra-fandom wars and wank, and admittedly I'm probably wearing rose-tinted glasses to a certain extent but I feel like with my first fandom, I was so lucky - we had our own little LJ community and we all respected each other and I don't remember any major drama going down. I just want that again. :(
I think that's partly why I've come back to F!S after several years of not being around (and was very pleasantly surprised to find it still active). I don't know most of the fandoms that are talked about anymore but I feel like we're all of a "generation" of fandom that maybe none of us are quite ready to say goodbye to...?