[ SECRET POST #2656 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2656 ⌋

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

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05. [SPOILERS for Snowpiercer]



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06. [SPOILERS for Captain America: The Winter Soldier]



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07. [SPOILERS for Teen Wolf]



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08. [SPOILERS for Golden Time]



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09. [WARNING for blood/gore, cannibalism, and incest]



















Notes:

Grabbed some from next week's subs post so it wouldn't be all spoilers today.

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #379.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[feotakahari]

I can't seem to find it now, but I saw a post once that tried to explain why Touhou got to be such a big thing despite being kind of crap. Paraphrasing, imagine a world where the Batman comics never existed. LEGO's video game division decides to do more games based on new IP, so it creates a superhero game called LEGO Batman, basically the same as the one in our world. Folks play it, not expecting much, and they realize it's an interesting setting, so one of them writes fanfic that's like the Adam West show, and one of them writes fanfic that's like The Killing Joke, and one even writes fanfic that's like the Joel Schumacher movie. The quality of the original has ceased to matter, because the fanon has taken on a life of its own.

Of course, potential alone doesn't make a fandom. I'm not sure what drew so many people to Touhou, but as the posters above have said, what drew folks to MLP is innocence. When marketers think grow ups only want stuff that's "dark" and "mature," such that even Star Trek and Superman are forced to "grow up," a show for 2-11 year olds can look quite mature in comparison. (In other words, the driving factor in the above analogy isn't The Killing Joke, it's Adam West!)

(In a parallel universe where fantasy media is, on the whole, sickeningly saccharine, folks are wondering how the hell Dark Souls got such a massive online fandom.)