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F!S Anon Meme (the ??th)

Secrets, rants, opinions, anything you want to say about your fandom or a fandom or fandom in general, do it here! Anonymously, of course. Get it all off your chest.

Some ground rules:
1. Going anon is encouraged but not absolutely required (for those who struggle with recaptchas and stuff).
2. No autoplaying/autolooping embeds, or embeds that cover/stretch the screen.
3. No dropping personal info or IRL contact info, etc.

That's about it, though!

(Today's post is below.)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't mind it, but I do want a new fandom space to come along. Tumblr is fun for gifs and pics but I miss discussion and posts with comments and the more cohesive community that fandom used to have pre-tumblr (in my experience, at least).

[(Anonymous)]

I totally agree with you, but in all honesty I think that sort of thing is going to have to be a non-internet platform. The internet/fandom got taken over by the cool table isn't so much for cohesive community and discussion anymore as it is sharing individual ideas quickly with lots of people. Which has a place, but for those of us who miss the sort of fandom you're talking about here, it's a bit lonely and confusing. I wish more people my age did book clubs, for instance, because I think that would be one really great platform.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Sadly I think you're right, but I still hold on to that bit of hope that that sort of fandom will come back!

What would be cool is local viewing groups. Like a book club but for television shows. Like weekly fandom meetings!

...surely nothing could go wrong with such an idea.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT who replied to you :P

Yeah, I'd love for the fun, obsessive sort of fandom to come back too. People really should do more book clubs, but for a particular series or something.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT -- Book clubs are one of those things that sound like they should be right up my alley, until I go to one and realize that I'm 30 years younger than anyone else there. :(

[(Anonymous)]

My experience is the exact opposite of yours, tbh. I couldn't find the 'cohesive community' everybody praised LJ for, for any of my fandoms, and couldn't figure out how to navigate the site to save my life. I joined a few fandom-specific comma, and they all died; fandom-specific forums all turned out to be incredibly cliquey and unwelcoming. I only started to make friends and feel like I was actually part of a community when I joined tumblr, and I've been in two fandoms there now that fell that way. Maybe there really was a golden age of fandom community back when LJ still ruled the net, but if so, I personally wouldn't go back.

[(Anonymous)]

How long ago was this? I also think it depends on what fandom you were in... I tried getting into the Heroes fandom when LJ was still pretty well known for being community/discussion oriented, and I couldn't find much of a community at all, which really bummed me out. Then again, the showrunners did so much on the internet that maybe a cohesive fandom community wasn't really necessary?

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly this.