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⌈ Secret Post #6266 ⌋

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[(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'm the anon from before, who initially mentioned the difference between intensity and the duration of something.)

Yeah, that's what I'd call intense, both your relationship to canons and the previous anon's as well. There's a certain dedication, a loyalty, if you will, that defines that idea of being an "intense" fan that I just cannot associate with the people who come in, yell about something for two weeks and then disappear forever to go yell about a thousand other fandoms without ever coming back.

I can't speak for others but I'm definitely in the team that expects some sort of long-term commitment inside of fandom. It's how *I* engage with it and how I've been "taught" to engage with it along the years I've been here. But then there are these curious cultural shifts and people coming in with different backgrounds, yeah. I'd say someone who stumbles upon fandom now, coming in from Twitter or TikTok, is going to have a completely different concept of what participating in it even is, at its core, whereas people who started out a few decades ago just follow another rhythm. If you grew up on LJ (as I did), as active as it might have been in the past, you weren't subjected to the maddening demand for ever new "content" coming out, which is what these new apps are all about.

I suppose it's a bit of a generational thing and none of us are all too happy with this new, throwaway version of fandom. Maybe someday even those who came into it like that grow tired of it too... How can they not when the speed of everything in this ultra-capitalistic landscape is just so unnerving?

[(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)]

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