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fandomsecrets2011-09-17 03:16 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2011-09-17 03:16 pm
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(Anonymous) 2011-09-17 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)That is what fandoms do when there is no fresh content to obsess over. It comes in stages, first there is the desperate hunt for ancillary materials, elevating trivia to canon. Then comes the long slow drop off, then a few left turns as accepted and cherished fanon conventions are overturned in favor of some new "adult" interpretation. Finally fandom starts cannibalising itself becomming more a fandom of the fandom, until it becomes half-dozen guys huddled in basements and/or lowgrade backroads motels sharing memories of how great it was once, but silently accepting its over. Happens to every fandom, ever.
Potterdom is just at stage one, maybe stage two, but it is in the long slow decline phase.
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(Anonymous) 2011-09-17 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)Goodness. What a Debbie Downer.
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(Anonymous) 2011-09-17 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)no subject
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Sherlock Holmes doesn't count because that series is constantly being reinvented and reimagined.
Ditto Doctor Who, which as you probably know is actually in the middle of a new season RIGHT NOW.
Star Wars fandom... doesn't that thrive on books and games which are still being produced?
LotR fandom is the only one which really doesn't have any active new material recently, and it's unquestionable that the big boom that they got from the movies has significantly dropped off. I have no doubts that it's an active fandom, but I seriously doubt it's really THAT big anymore. I wouldn't say that it's in any kind of active decline, so much that it's... gone fallow.
I suspect Harry Potter fandom will do much of the same thing (assuming there won't ever be any spin-off series or major new content outside of what Pottermore has to offer).
It's not really bashing to point out that a lot of fans need some level of novelty in terms of the injection of new material to keep their interests primed. Harry Potter fandom is so huge that I'm sure it will never actually die, but there's a fair chance that interest will slow down and as time goes on people will find themselves engaging more in other new things that will come out in the future.
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(Anonymous) 2011-09-19 01:54 am (UTC)(link)