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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.)

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Re: More of a question

[(Anonymous)]

I got into fandom quite young - reading horrible OOC humour fics on ff.net, posting on the main forum for the fandom at the time, etc. and told my mother about it.

Instead of having a frank talk with me about Internet safety, she made up an entire fake news story about pedophiles in my area, who "oh look, just so happen to be posting on these fandom websites here and here!", forced me to give over my email password and chatlogs so she could read through every conversation I'd ever had (including MSN conversations with irl friends), and basically scared me shitless. I went to school every day for a week, shaking. Even though I hadn't given out any personal information whatsoever besides my first name and the country I lived in.

I didn't engage in any fandom activities for a while after that. It's a shame, actually, because I recently rejoined that fandom and a lot of the fans there are people from the old days who stayed in touch and grew up together - something I would have been a part of if I'd stuck around, too.