[ SECRET POST #7012 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7012 ⌋

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Transcript by OP

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Fandom has collectively become the "not in my backyard" old people shaking fists at the universe. They hate on new media in their fandom that isn't identical to what came before. But they also hate on full on new media. What they want is for nothing new to be made and all young people to only get to watch the old media they love. We've become what our parents were about music when we were growing up.

[(Anonymous)]

Methinks that's just you. I'm always on the lookout for new media. I do, however, wish that newcomers to the neighborhood (i.e. fandom in general) would stop trying to make it like their old neighborhood and learn the rules (netiquette).

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes I think that is a flaw inherent in fandom. The word "fan" was derived from "fanatic", after all.

[(Anonymous)]

There are definitely people like that, but there always have been. There's even more jumping into new things and loving it.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sure this is true for some people. It is a documented phenomenon that many people's tastes begin to stagnate as they get older (which sounds very judgey but I genuinely don't mean it that way).

But I also think a lot of people's deep discontentment with all sorts of things can be laid at the feet of capitalist enshitification. Plus, the fucked-upness of the world and the way our awareness of said fucked-upness has changed over the past two decades is also undoubtedly making it more challenging to tell stories that satisfy us. There are so many more ways for a story to miss the mark for us, or rub us the wrong way these days. The needles that writers have to thread with their writing, if they want to tell a story with any real meat to it, have gotten much smaller and more numerous over the years.

[(Anonymous)]

Who's "we"? You, maybe. Catch me hunting for new music from the nursing home.

But people's tastes do calcify as they age--the cultures and communities where you grew up change around you, and then one day you wake up in a foreign land where nothing is familiar. I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with wishing you could connect with X, Y, or Z like you did back then; I also don't think there's anything wrong with, you know, time progressing and culture building upon itself.

But if you're not happy with how you engage with fandom or how much you remind yourself of your dad, you can always change.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

"fandom as a whole" no way, fandom as a whole is so huge now, if we thought things were fragmented and hard to find a true community in during the LJ days, it's a thousand times worse now.

are there a few fandoms or pairings within fandom that are like OP described? most likely yes. are we all like this? nah not even close.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm seeing this a lot in Young Sherlock fandom, ughhh.