[ SECRET POST #6863 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6863 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"Normie" irritates me in the same way "not like other girls" does.

People gain new interests over time. I do, OP did, we all do. As long as people aren't actively being assholes, let them be.

[(Anonymous)]

Same same.

If someone engages in fandom sincerely and is kind, I don't need them to pass some nerd purity test. Geez.

[philstar22]

Yup. I'm a nerd and proud of it. I've been in fandom since I was a kid. But I think judging people who got into fandom later is stupid. Personally I love that fandom is more popular now and more accepted. It is nice that it is no longer considered weird to talk about fandom things.

[(Anonymous)]

I kinda miss the days where fandom was less mainstream. There was just something magical about those days.

[(Anonymous)]

FUCK gatekeeping.

[(Anonymous)]

I personally blame the rise of anti-shipping and purity culture (people doxxxing and harassing others over problematique fiction) in fandom on the influx of normies .

[(Anonymous)]

This was happening years before the pandemic though. There’s just a shitty subset of fans who can’t stand people liking stuff they don’t like and unlike years ago where people would call them stupid, now reasons are made up as to why something is a moral failing to like.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. Smacks of wanting an ‘acceptable’ target to hate and I’m not about that. Anyone is welcome in fandom, I just don’t want them to be dicks to others.

[(Anonymous)]

I do feel like a lot of people want someone that it's acceptable to hate on, and that causes a lot of problems.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean... it was very apparent to me at a young age that I got WAY more obsessed with media than my friends and acquaintances. Which made me feel like a weirdo until I discovered fandom.

And I feel like "normie" well describes a person who comes into fandom spaces without understanding how obsessive most of us are and being judgey about it, which is aggravating.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not here for gatekeeping, and if a person wants to be in fandom then I have no desire to make them feel unwelcome. But I also totally get where you're coming from. I realized in my tweens that I had a propensity to get really, really obsessed with certain media and/or certain ships. Like, weird-obsessed. Cannot-be-normal-about-it-even-if-I-try obsessed.

Meanwhile I have a couple of friends who are geeks in their own right, but they're not obsessive the way I am, and in that regard I do view them as normies. Not normies across the board, just normies in the way they are fannish about things - moderately and sensibly.