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A space to chat fandom! Anon!

Got a WIP you're excited about? Want to rave about your fave? Or is your fandom absolutely in love with a character who detracts from every scene they bumble into, and you need somewhere to vent? You're in the right place!

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Re: Fandom Venting - ONTD

[(Anonymous)]

I kind of can't believe it's still going. Feels like it's been around forever.

Re: Fandom Venting - ONTD

[(Anonymous)]

It's such a weird relic of the internet and I have to admire how it's lived through LJ's rise and fall. Sometimes I wonder what the Russians who bought LJ think of it, LOL.

Re: Fandom Venting - ONTD

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I forgot it was on lj still; surreal to see it! I wonder how many people are actively following? I think I saw the number 100000 floating around, but I'm guessing that's just accounts, not necessarily active ones.

Re: Fandom Venting - ONTD

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, LJ is such a ghost town now that even the tiny shitty ONTD posts get a comment telling them CONGRATZ! for being a top 5 post on the site, LOLOL. It's sad...LJ was like the peak fandom experience back in the day and nobody's ever found a good replacement, IMO.

Re: Fandom Venting - ONTD

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I'm annoyed people didn't move to dreamwidth because... it's the same. Just no ads. But no, they picked bloody *tumblr*. I know dreamwidth doesn't handle images gracefully, but that's part of its charm! tbh I still dream of dreamwidth suddenly getting popular, even though I know it's unlikely. I think those slightly more closed-off communities are good for fandom.

Re: Fandom Venting - ONTD

[(Anonymous)]

Man, Tumblr was good for gifs and that's about it. I HATE that there's no privacy in the tags - one of my OTPs years back was Sarah/Helena from Orphan Black, and because the fandom as a whole was really judgy they started freaking out if you shipped the clones together, let alone the twin sisters. And the official account for the show CONSTANTLY hung out in the tags doin' their CORPORATE SYNERGY and acting like a fandom babysitter, so you couldn't post anything even slightly edgy without massive pile-ons.

OFC now Tumblr is the lesser of evils compared to Twitter, which is just a trash fire.

Re: Fandom Venting - ONTD

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh, it sounds awful. :( I was involved in fandom until 2010ish, on fandom-specific forums, THE WAY GOD INTENDED; took a break because the community was imploding a bit and I'd got busy with other things, and when I came back the remainder of the community had burned down and scattered, and any alright people from beforehand whom I could still find were kind of crawling out of the ashes muttering about the horrors of antis. So I think I missed the worst of the Tumblr Judgement Age re: fandom (still saw enough socjus discourse to last 20000 lifetimes) and it does at least seem like things are swinging back a bit now... But I completely missed that official accounts were doing that shit! Way to completely kill a fandom before it could get started!

I've never even attempted to do twitter. Don't have an account, don't want one. I guess I can see why artists use it post-tumblr-nsfw-ban, but I don't know why anyone else does. Forums already existed. Why did people switch to a platform which hampered communication in every possible way. Gah.