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[ SECRET POST #6420 ]

⌈ Secret Post #6420 ⌋

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'Blorbo' is a useful word. Some people in fandom think it's cringe and immature, but personally I think that being so hung up on a piece of jargon sounding cringe or immature that it prejudices you against the thoughts and opinions of everyone who uses it is a whole lot more immature.

This applies to basically all useful fandom terminology. Yes, most of it sounds a bit silly, but so what? A lot of fannish things are kind of silly; since when does that matter?

How is "blorbo" a useful word? What are you trying to say with it?

Also, trying to shame people for objecting to something you like is just a dick move.

NAYRT - You have google, look it up.

You can safely assume it hasn't revealed anything useful or convincing. If you can do better, go ahead. Otherwise, evidence that this is a "useful word" is nil.

1) ayrt was making conversation. No need to be rude. If you don't know what a blorbo is, just say you don't know. No shame in that.

2) "Just Google it!" hasn't been a valid response since the mid-2010s. It's become a fucking cesspool of advertised results and links to misinformation sites. You need to be more specific about what to Google or drop a link yourself.

Frankly, this. Google is increasingly broken.

Thank you for reminding me that I need to dig through my Facebook archives to find a slideshow that goes over specific Google search tactics (such as going through Google Scholar).

This is such a reading comprehension fail. The secret is literally objecting to OTHER PEOPLE shaming and belittling fans who use fandom slang they dont like. I guess that sentence in the secret was to long for you or something.

Nah. Your response is human decency fail. There's nothing wrong with replying to "this is a useful word, I will criticize people for rejecting it and accuse them of immaturity and prejudice" with "useful how?"

What... is it specifically useful for? Lol, sorry, I pretty much see it used to mean a silly way to say "favorite character" or as the latest trend that replaced the "comfort character" thing. Is there a more specific usage? I don't care either way about the term tho.

NAYRT - A current favorite character whom one feels particularly intensely about. Useful in that it is a single word you can use to convey something it would otherwise take at least eight or nine words to convey accurately. Which is the same way that a lot of jargon is useful. *shrug* well worth using in my books. I'm old, what do I care if people think I sound like a teen?

DA

That sounds like ... what people who don't use blorbo call "my favorite character."

DA - I have a bunch of favorite characters. I only have a couple of blorbos at any given time. Blorbo tends to be used in a way that connotes a degree of hyperfixation, regardless of whether the person in question is neurotypical or non. I have favorite characters I'm entirely normal and chill about; not so with blorbos.

Favorite character is three times as many characters as blorbo and still lacks a ton of the nuance that blorbo encapsulates. The original genesis of blorbo was "that character I'm currently talking about and blogging about and shouting out in my tags relentlessly."

Huh. This and the above anon do clarify some. It sounds like you're interacting with a lot more canons at once than I am, or use "favorite character" when my friends would say "character I like."

Fandom covers a wide range, from things that are made with a level of passion, expertise, and dedication that puts a lot of professional work to shame to things that are made in a spirit of complete frivolousness. Neither extreme defines what fandom "is."

It made a huge difference to me that I could introduce what I did in fandom to my non-fandom family in such a way that they understood it as a valid thing, as opposed to "mediocre crap white people make, frittering their childhood away in la-la-land." When people dig in and insist it's all quirky and liberating to push jargon that makes fans sound like five year olds with dental anaesthetic wearing off, I just wonder how many people who love stories will never be a part of fandom because they can't get past that noise. That's the "so what."

There's a difference between clowning to your heart's content and griping if other people don't want to join in.

I'm much too old to care if other people are judgmental about my interests for shallow, ignorant reasons.

There's a difference between clowning to your heart's content and griping if other people don't want to join in.

This is a reading comprehension problem. You missed the part where the secret said that being dismissive of other people's thoughts and opinions just because they use a word you find immature is the issue here. And rightly so, that is a truly inane thing to be prejudiced by. Use fandom jargon or don't, but you're in fucking fandom, so judging other people for using it is, I cannot stress this enough, a you problem. Like, sorry you're insecure about your interests and crave the validation of narrow-minded people to the point that you want the thing you're a part of to be less itself in order to cater to outsider's blinkered perceptions, but that is, once again, a you problem.

+1000 seems like this secret touched a nerve. Cant believe people are this hostile to their own hobby community's terminology tbh.

Fandom terminology has sounded silly since the start. I used to not want to use shipping portmanteaus because I thought they sounded juvenile. Then I got a little older and realized it doesnt matter and I dont care. They have a function. Not using them was senseless.

Hm, assumptions on top of straw men.

You can chant "well, that's a you problem" about others disliking blorbo in as many ways as you want, but you're pushing people to use words (or at least accept words) that they find repulsive and don't see a need for.

wild to me that this is even controversial tbh!

The thing us, I love fandom slang and avoid judgey killjoys, so if these people avoid me that's good for both of us. Block me, please, I prefer it.

Personally, I don't find blorbo particularly useful because it doesn't really say anything more than other terms that already existed haven't before. And while I think it's a bit silly and just plain don't much like how it sounds I also don't mind people using it.
Instead, I think it's a good way to gauge other people in fandom by, not by judging the people who use it but by judging the people who get unnecessarily pressed about people using it. Because those are usually types who take themselves and fandom too seriously for my tastes and I'd rather not associate with these types.

ITA with this comment.

But I also agree with the secret poster that "I cant take anyone who uses this common fandom slang word seriously, no matter what they actually have to say" is way more of an immature take that just...using the slang.

There is a lot of commonly used fandom slang that most people would agree isn't a great choice for serious discussions. The only thing that makes "blorbo" any different than "omega slick" or "unalive" or "gemsona" is that people get really defensive about how normal it is to use blorbo in the wild.

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