Fourth Post!

[hoisinsauce]

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Post about fandom! Or whatever! Whether it's a rave about some obscure series, or an essay dissecting every last reason why some internet-famous author should rethink their career, someone will probably read it at some point! We also just chat about life.

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Comments

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

I miss forums too, that's the part of internet culture that I'm most nostalgic for, but I don't really see a reasonable path for them making a comeback.

The rise of sites like reddit/twitter have given people a totally skewed idea of online personas, and how if you havea fight with someone you should dig back into their history to generate lists of why they suck, to convince others who have less time on their hands and will accept your summary without digging further. The genie's been let out of the bottle.

Basically the only way to avoid this in current forums is to be mind-stultifyingly boring. Even forums focused on technical hobbies can't avoid this clout-cultivating cycle unless they exclusively cater to newbies asking basic questions over and over again. /cynicism

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

sa

Thinking about it more ...all of the best forum cultures I knew involved small fandoms. There's a few small fandoms I still follow on tumblr, which is awful, but at least things are more open than locked-down discord servers.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Yes and no I guess. IDK, I wonder if Tumblr et al had a role as well. I've had one excellent small fandom and one small fandom that I come back to every now and then to check on. It was fine while I was there, and I met my ex via it, but AFAIK one person TIFed out and now I'm back and every person and new person is some flavour of genderspecial and it's every flavour of batshit.