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F!S Anon Meme (the ??th)

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 recaptchas 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!

(Today's post is below.)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, anon memes often run for a couple days to a week before fizzling out. It's just "nighttime" for most users right now, I think.

I think it isn't so much that people hate that Tumblr exists, but that fandom is moving there. I'm fine in with Tumblr in general, but it's not a platform that I want to use. I can see why people would get resentful of the platform and the people who use it, because they want a different kind of fandom experience that is rapidly becoming less satisfying because the people who'd otherwise participate are moving to Tumblr.

It's kind of like, I don't know, you live in a neighborhood with a bunch of other kids, and there are two empty lots to play in. All the kids used to hang out in one lot and play baseball, but then someone started up a game of kickball on the other one and it got more popular, so now you don't have enough players for baseball. You can still kind of make it work with the kids who are left, but it's really hard not to feel resentful of kickball players and the game kickball in general. In other circumstances, you never cared that kickball existed, but now you perceive it as taking away your ability to play baseball. Which it kind of did.

Irrational, but, you know. Humanity.

[(Anonymous)]

This is great explanation, thanks :)

I just wish people would just accept it for what it is and stop bitching about it so much.

[(Anonymous)]

You're welcome. :)

I've been guilty of Tumblr-bashing myself, but I did end up visiting over there and not hating it, which made me start thinking about what my deal was. It's just not the kind of fandom experience I prefer, but I think there's probably a little bit of a martyrdom complex going on, too, that leads into this kind of elitism. Sort of like, "Kickball is a stupid game with less complex rules so stupider people can play it! You guys don't even need GLOVES! Ugh, LAME! so come back and play baseball with us please ): ):" I don't know if that's where everyone is coming from, but it seems like a common undercurrent in a lot of the posts I read.

[(Anonymous)]

There's also the "I don't understand it, and I don't want to try to understand it, because it's not what I know already, so therefore I will hate it" kind of thinking that I hear about a lot. People who say it's too confusing, even though they've never actually tried it. But yes, there is a definite undercurrent of elitism from hardcore LJers, as if it's not a 'proper' fandom experience because it's not as easy to have in depth discussions. Maybe so many people have ended up there because they don't want that so much.

I get that it's just not for some people, and that's great. I like reblogging stuff and looking at pretty pictures and gifs, and I think the communication level fine. And sure I do bitch about tumblr sometimes, but it's from an "I love it but I hate it sometimes" position.

[(Anonymous)]

does it?! oh dear i thought they were for 24 hours then everyone moves on.

/fearing for all the threads I must have abandoned in the past

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's just a mark of a different fandom, but honestly, I haven't seen it on LJ even with the people who are still there. Nobody wants to talk about anything anymore; they just want to share really random thoughts, fanart, and videos. That's tumblr.