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F!S Anon Meme (the Seventh, and now on DW!)

Secrets, rants, opinions, anything you want to say about your fandom or a fandom or fandom in general, do it here! Anonymously, of course. Get it all off your chest.

Some ground rules:
1. Going anon is encouraged but not absolutely required (for those who struggle with captchas and stuff).
2. No autoplaying/autolooping embeds, or embeds that cover/stretch the screen.
3. No dropping personal info or IRL contact info, etc.

That's about it, though!

I'll be linking some general/general-fandom threads I see so people don't repost new threads with the same stuff.

Unpopular Ships
Obligatory Masturbation Thread
Fandoms you wish existed
How old are you?
What series have you always meant to watch/read/play/etc. but have never?
Time and location
Female-centric works
How do you feel about Tumblr?
Pet thread
Guilty pleasure thread
Favorite old shows
First fandom?

Comments

Has RPF always had a stigma?

[(Anonymous)]

Okay so when I first got into fandom it was in the late 1990s. I guess this was a time where online fandoms were still a new thing and you kind of had to know where to look and what to search to find things. (Also you had to be accepted into yahoo groups or what have you to read FF and things seemed generally much more contained.)

I always seemed to ship real people as a young teenager. Singers, mostly, but sometimes people on TV shows or even athletes. Back then I never heard of people getting weirded out by this.

I don't know if it is because now fandom is big and open and people go around linking people without thinking, but RPF seems like a big no-no these days. I don't know how I feel about that. The older I get the less I care about shipping real people but it kind of fascinates me.

Did I just miss out on drama back in the olden days or is this also going hand in hand with Social Justice or what-have-you?

Re: Has RPF always had a stigma?

[(Anonymous)]

I think the problem some people have is how accessible some celebrities are now with things like facebook and twitter. I've heard people say they get bad second hand embarrassment being apart of a fandom that openly links and sends RPF to that celebrity or people connected to them.

Re: Has RPF always had a stigma?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, exactly. It's not that there's that much of a stigma, I think most sane fans just REALLY want a line drawn clearly between fandom and the people themselves. And the fact that a lot of people are idiots who don't understand that it's awkward and NOT OKAY to link people to RPF stories on Twitter or go "omg do you love @Y, @X?" on Twitter, or email or Facebook or whatever at them.

I know my RPF fandom has tried to self-isolate which sucks because it decreases the amount of new people joining in on the fun, but it's to protect us a bit so that even if we do this on the great wide internet, the people we gush over won't run into it by accident. (But if any fellow fan wants to google "___ fanfiction", they can find us.)

Re: Has RPF always had a stigma?

[(Anonymous)]

yup, this

there has always been RPF in some way in another, but now that everyone and their grandma has a facebook/twitter/tumblr etc., you don't have to like send letters (and hope they make it to the person) or physically stalk a celebrity to get them to see your stories of them

Re: Has RPF always had a stigma?

[(Anonymous)]

Interestingly, I used to be really into this one RPF pairing, but nowadays I cringe when I think about how much I liked it. I don't know why my attitude changed (maybe because I'm not really in that fandom anymore and it's easier to see people as just people when you're not idolizing them), but I don't think I'd ever try to shut someone who is into it down. Someone posted an RPS prompt on this kink meme I frequent and I was a bit surprised when the prompt got jumped at by commenters. I wasn't aware that people are less accepting of it these days.

Re: Has RPF always had a stigma?

[(Anonymous)]

My first online fandom was Hanson, back in '98/'99, and there was some weirdass shit in the RPF world back then, so I've wondered about this too. I get the "OMG don't show it to them" issue and the "OMG it's not real" issue, but the hatred of RPF I've seen recently seems way more general than that. IDGI.