[ SECRET POST #6266 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6266 ⌋

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Comments

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[(Anonymous)]

You're annoyed by people enjoying themselves?

Well, thanks for doing the rest of us a favor and staying out of fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

Don't be an ass.

[(Anonymous)]

Who's being an ass?

OP is literally judging people for enjoying themselves, not because the fans are doing any harm to anyone else, but because OP doesn't personally like the way they are enjoying themselves.

[(Anonymous)]

DA the two replying to you are kind of cracking me up, because in the past few days there has been a legitimate angry asshole anon and your original reply comes nowhere near that. In fact, I'd say your original comment is pretty on topic and tame.

[(Anonymous)]

DA
Don't be a dick.

[(Anonymous)]

Sure, I'll keep that in mind for when I'm actually being a dick.

[(Anonymous)]

Looks at secret below this one.

Yup, this checks out.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, a fan is a fanatic. It's to be expected. Keeping away from a fandom that doesn't cater to your own interests or keeping your distance from the people in fandom who are particularly annoying really is the way. I agree that there are quite a few people who manage to focus on things enough that they will kill off our love for them even if we initially started out enjoying them, so if being able to still like those things means steering clear from these pockets of fans... So be it.

We just can't expect THEM to shut up because WE are annoyed. Block/mute/whatever and move on.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, same. I just don't care about almost anything fandom related these days. Everyone is just too... intense?
And the "mainstream hyperfixation" is changing way too quickly to me. I can't even remember what people were talking about last year apart from Barbie and Oppenheimer... Now there's Hazbin Hotel everywhere? IDK, man... (I like Hazbin Hotel, don't get me wrong, but I bet the focus will shift soon to something else and everyone will forget it)

I do think that for me is getting older and shifting my focus to other hobbies. I have no more mental bandwidth for fandom controversies or stuff I should care about. Let me just read my fanfictions alone...

[(Anonymous)]

But there's a difference beween intensity and ephemerality, no? I'm an intense fan but I don't move on quickly (to the chagrin, perhaps, of those around me who expect me to be on their wavelength), just as I don't catch on to new stuff quickly. The fact that others do is tiresome, especially when they used to like what I like and have now completely tossed it aside for some new shiny thing that won't last them a year while I cling to my thing as usual, but I wouldn't call them intense either, just... Loud and volatile, I guess.

Or maybe I'm the one equating intensity with passion and depth here, there's always that.

[(Anonymous)]

AYART

>> there's a difference between intensity and ephemerality, no?
YEP, you are right! I was not trying to link the two together. They are very different phenomenon, but they are the two aspects of fandom that I am not personally vibing with anymore.
And you're probably right in calling them "loud" instead of "intense". I was thinking about very vocal fans on social media when I wrote that.
I'd probably be classified as an "intense" fan myself by your definition. I just stay deeply invested in a piece of media or ship for years before changing focus.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

But this is how I deal with canons, too. I don't have that many, I'm usually not looking for a new one, but the ones I'm into, I'm very engaged with.

My impression is that this long term commitment used to be very expected in fandom. That's part of what set fanfic writers apart from everyone who would watch a movie once and then move on with their life. But with the influx of new people around Twilight or so, we got a lot of mass-consumers of media and their friends, and by comparison it looks like they're always emoting on social media about the Next Big Thing. And continually replacing it.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel you, but the entire time I've been in fandom, I've had zero patience for the types who think the fact that we're in a space where people have fun is grounds for trying to recruit anyone who will listen to do Good Work or shame them for not doing Good Work, regardless of how they define that. IMO, no one needs to "be older" to decline emotional blackmail.

[(Anonymous)]

+100000000

[(Anonymous)]

Skill issue

[(Anonymous)]

If you get annoyed at people being fannish about stuff, then yes, you should probably stay out of fannish spaces.

[(Anonymous)]

Idk man if I find some people's enthusiasm for something annoying I just block them. I don't see the thing again and I don't get randomly annoyed at a stranger anymore, it's all good and that easy.

[(Anonymous)]

I think I can more or less understand where OP is coming from if we're talking about something that is just too big to ignore in a fandom (like a major ship that overshadows everything else, for example, or some piece of fanon that is taken for gospel by everyone) and blocking the people involved with it pretty much equates to blocking the entire fandom altogether. But then yeah, the solution is just staying away and not interacting much, focusing on whatever it is we prefer to that inescapable thing and that's it. Expecting other people to stop enjoying themselves in their own way is what's absurd.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

But I wasn't getting the impression that they were referring to something that other people were enjoying. More like, the amount of stuff that was fun in fandom seemed vastly overshadowed by the amount of people finding something unimportant to be outraged over and then carping on it everywhere, as if the rest of the story doesn't exist or shouldn't matter.

[(Anonymous)]

The Spongebob Effect, as it is also known.

I mean, isn't that what fandom has always been?

[(Anonymous)]

If people are just casually enjoying something they don't usually join fandom for it. Fandom has always been for those hyperfixation type of loves. But I'm pretty out of it these days so maybe there's some new trend of behavior I'm not aware of.

[(Anonymous)]

Wait how are you defining "petty bullshit?" Because I feel like it describes interpersonal drama wherein people treat low stakes situations/disagreements as if they're actually high stakes, but from context, it seems like you're using it to mean, "media I dislike." Which is weird.

[(Anonymous)]

If you mean when people are watching a show about something, but they bring their pet issue along and grandstand endlessly in fandom about how people who don't interpret everything through their oh-so-important lens and bellyache about everything else being "wrong," I know exactly what you mean, and I'm tired of it, too, anon.

[(Anonymous)]

+1000