[ SECRET POST #2496 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2496 ⌋

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

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It depends on the fandom, but usually, the places to be are either specific message boards (if you can find ones that remain active - they can be cesspools of idiocy but hey, so can any place online). Some fandoms still have semi-active Livejournal communities, too, I think.

As for how tumblr fandoms operate, I think you just start posting your views. If you tag your posts and make coherent points, people will start finding your posts and following you. If you find people who post a lot of meta, you can follow them and see their takes.

Is it ideal? No. Tumblr makes for a very random, cluttered fandom experience. You can track tags but then you get every goddamn post (including the confessions blogs, the random idiots, the angry posts with absolutely no reference to which post they're actually upset about etc). If you follow people, they might post about every fandom under the sun, or reblog things you don't watch, or haven't watched yet, and thus get spoiled for. Some people also post/reblog a lot, making your dash really hard to keep up with, unless you have unlimited free time.

My advice: get in there, but be prepared for the good with the bad. In my experience, if you can find 2-3 fandom friends who you dig and who dig you, that's usually good enough to make for a fun fandom experience. Good luck!

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with Tumblr taking a lot of time, with a low signal to noise ratio. The people who do best there seem to be on it all the time. I just want to go in, scan everything to get the gist, and respond to it. I get that the non-linearity is an invigorating bonus in many ways, but fuck it takes a lot of time to deal with.

[(Anonymous)]

*SA Taking a lot of time is something particularly young people have. The older you get the less likely you have scads of time for fandom as your world expands elsewhere.

[hiyami]

Yeah, all of this. I find it's the case with all the recent social medias that are all the rage, they're all about instant posts and if you answer two hours later, you're late at the party and everything is irrelevant.

I wonder what kind of adult with a job has enough time to follow that sort of media, especially when most follow 100+ people / topics... And I also wonder how come they manage to keep a job if they spend all that time on their smartphone checking Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram etc.

[(Anonymous)]

You can track tags but then you get every goddamn post (including the confessions blogs, the random idiots, the angry posts with absolutely no reference to which post they're actually upset about etc)

That's what the ignore feature is for. You can just ignore the confessions blogs and the random idiots and they won't even show up when you look at your tags.