[ SECRET POST #2345 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2345 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It's probably better that the word remain used only rarely. I've noticed that fandoms that actually come up with popular terms to refer to themselves, quickly get that word hijacked by people outside the fandom in order to refer to the worst parts of the fandom.

It's probably happened before this but I first noticed it with Trekkies in the 80's what used to be a term used by fans to refer to each other in almost any circumstance became a derogatory moniker that people used to refer to the stereotypical morbidly obese virgin basement dweller as well as the completely obsessed variety of fan that learned klingon and treated the show as a lifestyle rather than the fandom. Even to this day there are still portions of the fandom that split over words like trekky versus trekker or just star trek fan.

The next case would be furries of course, despite the term starting out to try and include fans of really any type of anthropomorphic media it's since been hijacked to refer to the kinds of people who dress up in fursuits and have sex. This association has gotten to the point where I have had multiple friends who believe the word Furry refers solely to people who participate in the sexual side of the fandom.

More recently there has been blowback against people calling themselves gamers and people outside of videogames associating the word with the most hateful, misogynistic, and elitist parts of the community.

And most recently there are the bronies. I'm sure you already know where I'm going with this, even on this site there are people who have basically hijacked the word to fit with their catch all impression of the worst parts of the fandom.

Universal terms for fandoms tend to turn out very poorly as they give people a term to focus all their hate on and warp their perceptions of the fandom way out of proportion with reality. It really does get tiring watching the internet hyperbole machine continuously distort fandoms terms for itself in order to once again try and convince everyone what terrible people "insert fandom here" all are.