[ SECRET POST #5214 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5214 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

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...?

[(Anonymous)]

Same nonny. That's the experience I crave too. And I think you're right about us all being an older generation.

[(Anonymous)]

Lol damn as a fandom Olde, I really felt this.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel you on the k-pop fandom thing because k-pop fandom can get really crazy. Not on everything else though. Maybe I just had terrible luck. (Nah, who am I trying to fool, I was just the outsider among outsiders.)

[(Anonymous)]

Lol i feel like I'm a bit younger than a fandom Olde (proper olde, like zines and the 90s) but I got into fandom and had such a great experience on a little ship specific forum that also had affiliate links to other ships in the fandom -- it didn't have to be a fight! At least not in our corner. And you could appreciate other characters and ships too! It was low key and fun. I do miss it, but I'm glad I was able to have it. I'm just a bit reluctant to participate actively in fandom these days because it seems to require more involvement (and drama) than I care to indulge in.