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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)]

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?