[ SECRET POST #2196 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2196 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

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Comments

[superuser]

as someone who has had this habit in the past (and i still nerd rage every now and then), it generally comes from taking yourself and your interests too seriously and clinging way too hard to the idea of something being good, or cool, or right. people tend to self-identify heavily with the things they're interested in and view people that feel differently as somehow attacks on their own interests. we tend to get very heavily invested that what we like (ie what we self-identify with, not in the sense that you identify with a character or whatever but in the sense that you identify as a fan of XYZ)

fandom and nerd culture in general tends to be very defensive since we're used to trying to justify our interests to everyone around us irl. i think when we get online nerds tend to want to turn around and bully the fuck out of anyone they can in order to reclaim a sense of superiority and confidence.

it takes time and maturity but when you learn to accept and tell yourself 'haha, this thing i'm so into is ultimately just a kid's book / vidya game / japanese cartoon / toy selling vehicle / dumb tv show, i'm being even dumber by getting into internet fights about its inherent value and worth'

realize that you are not, in fact, better than the fans that write mary sues or mpreg or the rpers that want to have a self insert or the fanartists that want to draw sparkly yaoi or porn or w/e and they're allowed to like whatever da fuq they want, the same as you are. being obsessed with canonical truth or a grammar nazi or sneering at the way 13yos write fanfiction does not actually make you cool. the way you or anyone else participate in fandom doesn't have to be cool or justifiable or 'tasteful' or whatever ridic standard you're holding other people to and judging them for. (the 'you' in this paragraph being a general you of course i have no idea how exactly OP is dick)