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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

Re: memoir of a troll

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

This is a relief to hear, thank you for answering!

If it helps, what you described sounds like "Othering". Unfortunately, all the search results I keep finding talk about gender and similar stuff, but the gist of it is that, without the right cues (like, for example, seeing someone face to face to see expressions of emotion, relating through similar interests or similar past experiences, etc.), people don't register in your mind as people, but, as some sort of "thing" that reacts and has some sort of intelligence.

Like the "text, ideas and opinions" that you described.

Othering happens differently for everyone, so for some people, talking to someone on the internet is enough to relate, for some others isn't -- to some people race is enough of a factor, or gender ("why are girls so mysterious?" is the example in the search results I keep finding), when you mow down other players in online videogames because you just see videogame enemies who yell at you... there are many examples.

A sadder example, born out of trying to preserve their sanity, is the one of soldiers and pilot fighters in wars who only see targets when they're shooting or attacking. If they didn't force themselves through their training to stop thinking "these are people I'm killing", they would have a serious nervous breakdown and stop functioning in battle.

I'm genuinely glad you have been thinking about this (if I understood your comment correctly) - you can only come out a better person when you think a lot about this kind of thing and how it relates to your actions.

Despite the impression you might get in this or other online communities, a lot of people are in the same boat as you, and for one reason or another don't really "personify" the people they're interacting with online.

Re: memoir of a troll

[(Anonymous)]

This is interesting.

You did understand correctly. It's not on my mind 24/7, but I have pondered it on occasion.

I certainly wanted to reassure you and other anon(s) that I've no intention or desire to run out and break laws, especially of the psychopathic kind. Also to point out in my case, so perhaps others, nothing was personal and so there was nothing wrong with OP. Just bad luck and timing to be the focus of attention.

It's interesting to know their may be other people in the same boat. But I'm not too fussed. I find identity crisis and "oh god is there something wrong with me" tiring. Until I realised we're all different on the spectrum and to not be a dickhead - even if I can't empathise with the person. Hah.

Nice chatting with you nonnie