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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2024-05-23 05:36 pm

[ SECRET POST #6348 ]


⌈ Secret Post #6348 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2024-05-24 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean at least you have the good grace to make this a secret, it's shocking how many kids today think this way and say so with their whole chests in spaces BUILT by adults-- and not just millennials, but gen xers and baby boomers. Hell, some of the silent generation was involved in crafting fan spaces, too!

When I was a kid on the internet I was WELL aware of who was building websites, organizing conventions, and writing all the good fanfic, not to mention circulating the tapes (or, increasingly, the digital uploads of things that never got wide release)... and it was not children.

There is nothing 'creepy' about adults who have hobbies, and who spend their time online interacting with other adults, or those they presume to be other adults. We do our best to cultivate adult-only fanspaces, too! Of course, when I was a kid I often clicked that 'yes I'm 18' button so I could read the juicy fics, but like... that was me trespassing into a space MADE BY AND FOR full-ass adults. People with jobs, stay at home parents, adults. Who very much also watch TV and movies, read books, play video games, and enjoy discussing those things and creating fanworks for them.

If you find the idea of interacting with an adult creepy, do yourself a favor and stay off the internet. Millennials grew up online, too, why on EARTH would you think an entire generation of people plans on quitting their hobbies and social spaces en masse?

More importantly, what do you think is going to happen to you? Will you stop caring about things you enjoy? Will you stay off the internet because you turn twenty, thirty, forty? Will you give up on joy and on community? Or will you still be *you*, but older and wiser and with perhaps less free time that you will want to spend unwinding?