[ SECRET POST #5966 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5966 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

*shrugs* It's not that I wish to be needlessly divisive. But people who are into consumerism have always felt sharply foreign to me. I can't tell how much that's something other fans actually want and how much people are bringing that into the space artificially in the hopes to create customers out of non-customers. But when I say "them," it's not a matter of when someone joined so much as what kind of relationship they build (or don't build) with the stories.

My impression is that, the less the basic infrastructure for fan engagement online is free, and the worse the economic situation gets, the fewer people can afford to socialize and be visible here. And that's hardly the only possible disruption: I went without an online presence for years, when I married and emigrated to another country, simply because the amount of things I had to remaster in my day-to-day life - starting with the language - were prohibitive. However, fandom has gotten huge over the past two decades, to the point that it's also gotten much easier for me to find people offline and signal to them. I'll fight tooth and nail for the AO3, and similar, but fandom was not born on the internet. And my observation has been that most of the people who have to leave merely accumulate some ash over their embers. The right sort of material and environment bring the fannishness right back, full blaze.

[(Anonymous)]

SA

I would put to you that the idea that people "age out" of fandom is hurtful to older fans. There is really no age line in a place where people need no money to enter. Nor should there be. That's just another (sneaky) way of trying to stamp fandom out of existence - by raising the lower limit and lowering the upper one. I would have missed out on so much about the anarchic, early internet if I'd waited until I was a legal adult to start exploring here. And honestly, I don't want a day to dawn when I am alive, but feel like this space is closed to me.