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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)]

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.