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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)]

Tumblr hate is not exclusive here. Every site with a sizable fanbase of anything has a dismissive hate boner for it. Reddit, 4chan, Livejournal, and so on, and there's a variety of reasons including wonky communication.

My own problem, though it doesn't keep me from using it or having fun, is the culture there doesn't give a fuck about crediting/sourcing content, or veracity of claims and quotes and news. It's easy to pass off other's work as your own, or to start a shitstorm or spread ignorance based on hearsay.

Still, I think it's stupid to dismiss an entire site because it's not what you expect or think it should be. It's not as though the site actually replaces any others. It's not impossible to use more than one for different purposes.

[(Anonymous)]

But it sort of does 'replace' some of those other platforms in, because especially for new fandoms, it has become the main hub for fandom activity. That's what makes it frustrating - I realise it's built for different purposes, but I still want to do the things I used to do in fandom, and I can't do them on Tumblr, because Tumblr isn't built for them. But I can't do them anywhere else either, because 90% of the fandom is on Tumblr.

Basically, I'm not getting into any new fandoms even though I'm interested in them, because I can't deal with the way Tumblr works. It's not Tumblr's fault, it wasn't designed for the way I like to do fandom, but I'm sad that this is what fandom is now.

[(Anonymous)]

anon let me recommend you a thing

skype text chat

it's how i do most of my fandom with tumblr-based fandom

make some friends, ask them to talk more, make a group, invite other people

[(Anonymous)]

Haha, thanks for the advice but the problem is that I'm really bad at making friends online. I just don't know how it works, and I never did, and that's why I loved communities - you didn't have to be bffs with anyone to be able to participate in fandom discussion! They allowed me to hang around with a bunch of acquaintances and discuss fandom in a group rather than one-on-one.

Also with Tumblr, I don't even know how to find interesting people to follow, because it seems that the people whose stuff is actually interesting don't post in the fandom tags. The only people I follow on Tumblr are ones I'm in an LJ community with (this is an older fandom), and I don't think I'd ever have found their tumblrs just looking at fandom tags.

I'm not even that old, I swear, I just DON'T GET IT.