[ SECRET POST #6531 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6531 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I've been in fandom for a while, and IME, it didn't always use to be this way. Your fandom didn't define you, your ship didn't define you, and people didn't expect it to. It's not like we were never troubled by the morality police, but it wasn't anywhere near as foaming-at-the-mouth as it's gotten in recent years.

The more mainstream fandom has gotten, the more performative it's gotten as well. I'm guessing that while it's a blessing for many unhappy, isolated people who need escapism it's also an unhealthy crutch for some. When you don't have much else going on in your life that's good, it's easy for your identity to become stuff you consume because that's easy.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think this is necessarily even about morality. Lots of people identify so hard with certain pieces of media that if people say that piece of media is bad or they don't like it, even if it's not about morality at all, they take it as an attack on themselves as a fan.

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't mean to imply it was all about morality, I only mentioned that as one of the main differences I see in fandom occurring over time.

[(Anonymous)]

I don’t think this is even about fandom though? I know loads of people who fit OP’s description and aren’t in fandom. They just Really Like the Thing(s) and decide to define themselves by it. Like the idiot guys who try pretend they’re Al Pacino in Scarface or the chuckleheads who think they’re detectives from watching Law & Order that go nuclear if they hear someone say copaganda.

[(Anonymous)]

It definitely happens both in fandom and outside of fandom, yeah.

[feotakahari]

I’m not old enough to have lived this, but I assume shippers were held together by what non-shippers thought of them. Just look at the vilification of Kirk/Spock shippers by people who didn’t want gayness anywhere, let alone in Star Trek.