[ SECRET POST #2347 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #2347 ⌋

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

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02.
[Jay from Red Letter Media]


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03.
[Bob's Burgers]


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04.
[CL from 2NE1]


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05.
[Moriarty/Sherlock Holmes]


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06.
[Of Monsters and Men and Glitch (game)]


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07.
[After Man: A Zoology of the Future]


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08.
[Hetalia]


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09.
[Bubble Guppies]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 010 secrets from Secret Submission Post #335.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

so when did this place die?

[(Anonymous)]

nm

Re: so when did this place die?

[(Anonymous)]

Dude, the secret numbers have only dropped for a few days so far, probably due to summer starting and everyone going on vacation/taking exams/having more interesting things to do/etc. It'll probably pick up again soon enough.

Re: so when did this place die?

[badass_tiger]

Yeah, and either way, we still get the usual 700-800 comments in every post, so I'd say we're still pretty far from dying even with the few number of secrets.

*eyeroll*

[(Anonymous)]

FFS calm your tits. Places don't die in four days.

Re: so when did this place die?

[morieris]

I swear we got this at the beginning of the school year too.

Re: so when did this place die?

[(Anonymous)]

I know we got it right at the beginning of the new year, and we got the same threads about how few secrets there were, and then it picked up again.

Re: so when did this place die?

[mekkio]

When LJ started to muck up with its system. F!S moved here and an arkload of people said, "Feck, I can't be bothered to move along with it."

Coupled with the fact that tumblr came into the picture. Now here's the thing about tumblr. Many people were posting their deepest darkest fandom secrets here, thinking that only they thought a certain way for certain things. Tumblr changed all that. If you have an opinion on a show, book, movie, band, etc, there's a group for you on tumblr. So, those people who were shy about discussing their deepest, darkest opinions weren't shy any more because they found like minded people. So, there went another arkload of people.

Re: so when did this place die?

[(Anonymous)]

I, on the other hand, think F!S only began to really live when it moved to DW. On lj, it was loaded with trolling, wank, asshole anons, lazy aimless comments, and there were too many people and too many secrets to have any good discussions. Almost all secrets either spawned flamewars if they were controversial or just caused a list of "omg I love X too!" if they weren't.

It was enjoyable enough, but it was in its chrysalis form back then. Well, actually there was a period of a few months on LJ last spring where there were only ever 30-40 secrets per post, which was great. But then LJ changed its comment-thread format and it all went to crap.

Re: so when did this place die?

[writerserenyty]

I feel like this question has been asked for a long time...

Re: so when did this place die?

[(Anonymous)]

It hasn't, and it's not about to. This is pretty much business as usual.

F!S started in January 2007, and it took until about April 2009 before it started topping 1000 comments nearly every post. So, two years and a bit before it moved out of "start up" territory and became a regular stop. Assuming it takes just as long to recover from moving to dreamwidth, we're still in that window. I don't think that's the case, though.

Since 2008, there have been fluctuations during the holiday months. Activity nearly always decreases from May-August and from December-January. It also declines on single-day holidays, such as Memorial Day.

Re: so when did this place die?

[(Anonymous)]

Dude I'm exceptionally busy, I only get to go on FS once a week. It's hardly dying, this time of year is usually busy. It's tax time, it's exam time, it's pile on the work time, it's burn out need a break time, it's school holiday time. Across several countries and overlapping

There's ALWAYS a dip in FS attendance around June