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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2024-04-17 06:36 pm

[ SECRET POST #6312 ]


⌈ Secret Post #6312 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2024-04-18 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
Most of the folks who invented the Internet were Star Trek fans, so it was hugely influential

Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/do-not-cite-the-deep-magic-to-me-witch)

If you mean the small subset of fandom that is modern LJ-DW-Tumblr-AO3 media fandom, I still don't think it was Pratchett: he wasn't even published until 1983, long after Trekkies. The first Kirk/Spock fics were shared in the 1970s, and even in the late 1990s, most people who were in early media fandoms such as The X-Files and popslash were not really SFF fans.

I've never really seen Sailor Moon fandom, so maybe it's key to anime fandom but not all fandom.

If you're just being a troll, well, I had a nice few minutes there

(Anonymous) 2024-04-18 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
I do think Pratchett was important to the development of internet fandom, particularly in UK and Commonwealth spaces. Definitely as much as so X-Files fans and more than popslash, superhero comics, Harry Potter etc. Sailor Moon is also an important one for anime.

But Star Trek was absolutely foundational.

(Also, I want to know where you got the idea that X-Files fans were not SFF fans, since my Star Trek, Doctor Who and X-Files fan clubs had pretty much 100% overlap!)