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Do you think people will ever get sick of video and visual form of social media (tiktok, insta, etc) and have a fallback to slower reading heavy forms like LiveJournal in it's heyday? Will DreamWidth suddenly be trending?

Personally I think the answer is no. People just don't have the attention span for reading or creating that kind of content anymore. But I do wish it would come back as it was my favorite period of internet interaction. An internet stranger can dream.

I hope so. I can read faster than people speak.

I have never really thought of myself as a fast reader but I get so frustrated when I'm looking for information and all I can find is a video. I can read a lot faster than people speak and I get really frustrated with how slow the information is doled out.

THIS. I hate it so much.

I hope so.

I think some sort of major media collapse would have to happen that makes video and visual media less accessible to the general population, so... probably not. I'm older, so I've been around to see the internet evolve from a largely text medium to what it is now. Internet users have grown in leaps and bounds, because the bar to access the internet has dropped waaaaaay low since the early days, and the average IQ of your average internet user has dropped as well. People don't want to and are frequently bad at communicating in general, but that goes double for the written word and reading comprehension.

I wish at least fandom would migrate back. I really miss fandom communities. It's how I found most of my circle back at LJ.

I've tried to get back into journaling myself but idk, it's hard for me when I don't have any interaction. I handwrite in a journal almost daily, so stuff like DW or LJ were not just writing for myself but for the community, so no community means no real drive for me.

I agree re: wishing fandom would migrate back. Or at least a portion of fandom.

I’m trying to not have too much nostalgia about LJ because I know it was full of drama, but I also miss slower, threaded discussions. And not everything relying on flashy aesthetics and visuals all the time. And having the choice between posting to a community, posting publicly on my blog, or locking things to a specific circle of friends.

Like damn I am cranky old person but I hate that the (always a little permeable, but never this much) Fourth Wall between fandom and creators has vanished. And I dislike how aggressively commercial everything feels.

Nope. The video formant for sharing information really took off with Youtube and Twitch and Vine came along and really took off for short-form content and then TikTok and Youtube shorts took over that when Vine died. I'm not sure we'll ever go back tbh.

I'll still hag out in the forums that still exist and other places where text is used, but I know this will be the shrinking minority as time goes on.

Oh, forums! Something else I miss. All the ones I used to frequent are long dead. They had the perfect level of organization for my brain. Discord just doesn't hit the same level for me.

There are some good fandom communities on Reddit.

Protip, use the RES formatting option on a computer so the forum pages look like this and not their new format. https://old.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/

Video is so popular because so many people are on their phones these days instead of laptops/PCs. I can't do all my social stuff on a tiny phone, personally.

Online blogging? No. I do not believe it will ever see the level of popularity it had twenty years ago.

Offline? Handwritten journals will never go completely out of vogue and might see a spike of popularity in the next couple years as more and more people get annoyed with the internet to the point of just ditching it altogether.

It's a genuine shame that the internet is the way it is now. We have lost so much.

I still have one and it's fairly popular, anyway I have valid reasons for not wanting to make videos.

Substack blogs are pretty popular in my corner of the internet (I rarely pay for any and just do free subscriptions.) Lots of fashion stuff and some Democratic politics.

I was gonna mention Substack! It's a blogging platform at heart, and it's massively popular, with lots of little thriving communities. Since it's generally not about fandom, however (although I've come across people who write commentary about fandom), I can see how it wouldn't be on the radar when some people talk about old-school blogging culture.

Someone in a fandom I was part of started a substack for analysis of episodes from the show, and I swear they were using it to start a cult. The analysis was really long and read like a conspiracy theory. They got to a certain number of followers and started paywalling things. As someone who witnessed many a fandom scam in the livejournal days, my radar immediately went off once money became part of it.

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