[ SECRET POST #2503 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2503 ⌋

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Yeah, it's changed.

[nyxelestia]

It's...not as drastic as some people make it out to be, but definitely fandom is less friendly than when I first started out, and I've only been in fandom for about a decade. There was a bit of meanness back then, but it tended to be isolated incidents of cruelty that were painful but ultimately easy to ignore and pass off as singular assholes, rather than the kind of low-level but constant hostility you see today.

I have a lot of theories on on how and why it turned out this way, but most of them boils down to the sudden growth of fandom over the last several years, combined with the increasing parallel powers of anonymity and/or making a name for yourself online.

Re: Yeah, it's changed.

[hlagol]

If you ever get the writing bug and expound on this theory in multi-paragraph form, I would totally read it an comment. A+ for fandom change-over-time theories.

Re: Yeah, it's changed.

[hiyami]

I wonder if it has to be with the fact that before, it was mostly people who were a bit awkward / had unusual interests who spent time online. So they knew what it was like to be bullied or ignored and they were super happy to get to talk people with the same interests.
While now everyone and their dog is online, and that includes all the IRL bullies that used to not find any interest in being on a computer.

Also, it's become vitally important now to seek online popularity... the stories of cyber-bullying and those teenagers who committed suicide after being harassed on websites like Ask.com make it obvious.