[ SECRET POST #7000 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7000 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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[fscom]

I hate how negative so many fandom spaces have become. I think we've all been here too long. So many people jump straight to the worst conclusions and have closed minds.

[epicurean]

Yep. I think it's a lot of things, really: the anti movement, the political climate, less moderation and also less self-moderation, less “your kink is not my kink and that's okay” and more “your kink is disgusting,” etc. It feels like everyone is more comfortable being an AH and, worst of all, they've found support from other AHs to keep being AHs.

Edit: also want to add that fandom is meant to be a creative outlet, so when you're busy defending yourself over every minimal interaction instead of being creative, it stops being fun.

[(Anonymous)]

+1. That's why I quit fandoms after being active for a very long time, I just couldn't keep walking on eggshells when all I wanted was to have fun after a stressful day. Now I'm just a casual fan who enjoys sharing thoughts with my closest friends and that's all.

[(Anonymous)]

I've been noticing there's a marked increase in... not sure how to put it. Sensitivity? on the internet in general.

People seem to have difficulty understanding neutral remarks and insist that you must have chosen to leave a comment in order to attack them or call them wrong, instead of idk, something neutral like making idle chat, pointing out an observation, or adding more info to what they said. Like they assume every response to them that does NOT begin with an outright positive affirmation like "yes you're so right" must then instead begin with a an automatic, hidden "no, you're wrong" even if nobody said that. As though if you're not replying to take their side, you must then automatically be against them because otherwise why say anything at all?

I wonder if it's because everyone's online now and people forgot how to have normal small talk?

[(Anonymous)]

The chronic online-ness of it all is, without a doubt, a reason.
I have been forced into both chronic online-ness and chronic offline-ness the past 10 years or so. And so I became eerily aware of how a lot of our culture is mediated by online culture now, particularly if you're in your 40s or younger, and that is bad because online culture is fully mediated by the .coms of it all, and now AI which makes it even worse. Our brains are kinda melting for real. And we're allowing it because if you don't know your netiquette you're not cool, not in and should be excluded. I was in fandom in the 90s, 00s. When it was us and private (possibly) conversations over IM, so it was really like a RL conversation, where it was just us and maybe a weird stalking eavesdropper at most and our silly inside jokes. But a conversation over X or even here is less a conversation and more a product where there are interested parties checking our language, cultural references, what makes us tick or buy - in other words, so many of us are losing our abilities to be decently human and the state of the world serves to show this and that's all because we're only, or mostly, interacting online. Well, of course the TV and so on before that, but it's gotten way worse.
Of course, things like exhaustion from overworking and AI mediated psychosis don't help with free thinking and being a full fledged well-developed human either.

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. A lot of people insist that there was negativity back in the good old days of fandom as well and of course there was. But nothing like there is today, because we didn't have widespread social media where this kind of BS could be amplified and broadcast like lightning. There was, IMO, a lot more "your kink is not my kink and that's okay" enforcement, more "hey remember this is fiction" and a lot less of the mindset that the media you consume (without paying for it!) somehow counts as activism.

[(Anonymous)]

yeah I've been part of a fandom for a long time, and I'd been having fun there for awhile but recently it just felt more and more miserable and I took a step back and decided to continue watching the show without dealing as much with the fandom and so far it's been a lot more enjoyable to experience the show without a bunch of other opinions and voices rattling around in my head while I do.