[ SECRET POST #2553 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2553 ⌋

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

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Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 062 secrets from Secret Submission Post #364.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 3 4 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[likeadeuce]

I have obviously not seen the communities where fans of the various series were hating on each other, though this thread certainly convinces me it happened.

I guess it's a benefit of coming to the fandom late.

[ketita]

It's not so much communities where hate was constantly spewed, but a kind of more generalized... bad feeling. Posts about how one series was better/deeper/whatever than the other, passive-aggressive comments, stuff like that. It was going around, though, and not super nice on either side.
I'm definitely glad you didn't have to go through that, and had a positive fandom experience, though :)
I generally do have fond memories of the fma fandom, though it was kind of wanky, looking back. I guess most large fandoms are, though.

[likeadeuce]

Just like journal posts? Message board posts? I don't think I was ever able to track down the fandom proper. (I wouldn't say I had a positive fandom experience, just that I never found much of a fandom to have an experience in -- by the time I got to the journal communities, people were mostly posting mangaverse fic without commenting on the canon one way or other.)

It just seems a shame to me that there's enough bad energy remaining in the fandom to fill up this thread but not enough to celebrate the good stuff about it. (Granted this thread might just be the same four or five people, which is probably the same number who are still posting fanworks regularly!)

[ketita]

Back in the day, the fma fandom was extremely active on LJ. That's where I made most of my fandom friends and where all the big conversations and stuff were going on, and where the fanfic was. Things really slowed down with the end of the manga, though.

To be fair, though, the original secret was about negative stuff in the fandom, so it makes sense that people would respond to it that way... but I think it also has to do with the fact that for a lot of people, that's probably nearing the end of their experiences in the fandom, so people tend to remember what happened latest, especially if it had something to do with them leaving the fandom.
I had a really good fandom experience overall, but even I find myself with bittersweet memories looking back...

[likeadeuce]

Yeah, I get it, it's just a shame to see something that still has so much potential dissolve into so many bad feelings.

[ketita]

I really don't think the bad feeling is what really killed the fandom, though. It's a combination of the manga taking over (and edging out the remaining 2003 fans), general lack of interest in writing the longer and more convoluted type fics, the fandom transferring over to tumblr, stuff like that.

(and for me, personally, a lot of my friends have dropped off the radar)

[likeadeuce]

I don't mean to say that's the whole story, there's just a lot of angry sniping and bitterness on this thread and that's always a shame to see.