Thoughts on fandom culture
Sorry might yap a little but idk who else I’d talk abt this with.. So I’m just kinda curious are y'all actively involved in fandoms you enjoy and I don’t mean buying merch and creating content and stuff I’m talking about whether you like engaging with online discourse on certain controversies in fandoms and interacting with other fans..? And what kind of moments made you hate being in a fandom because of how other people acted in it?
Me personally I try to avoid them because it kind of ruins the fun for me like when I’m in fandom spaces I’m there to consume content and to have fun with other fans not to fight over things all the time if yk what I mean..and I genuinely don’t think anything is serious enough for people to send death threats and putting sm time and energy on hating etc over having differing opinions (I’m not even talking abt problematic stuff like proships just abt literally normal opinions and valid criticisms
) and driving people out of fandoms… Ig what I’m trying to say is that it’s pretty exhausting seeing this happen all the time when you just wanna have fun. Heavy on cringe culture btw it makes some fandoms so unbearable to be in when all people can do is attack others for trying to have fun with their silly ships and headcanons and so on.
Tldr: fandom culture’s so toxic why can’t we just enjoy things
(I fear I’m j not built to be able to handle the internet guys) (and did this whole thought process start because I j started using twitter? Maybe!!)
I actually like how chaotic it is tbh. I don't mind most things people say on the internet as it just bounces right off my shield of absolute shamelessness.
The biggest issue with most fandoms is that as you said they take things too seriously. Another way I like to say this is that they have no life.
Also ever since the covid anime babies starte......
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I actually like how chaotic it is tbh. I don't mind most things people say on the internet as it just bounces right off my shield of absolute shamelessness.
The biggest issue with most fandoms is that as you said they take things too seriously. Another way I like to say this is that they have no life.
Also ever since the covid anime babies started coming in, fandoms have been becoming more and more unhinged. Like BSD fandom used to be really cool, now we have a bunch of people who want to lick Dostoevsky's feet and another bunch of people who are like, "I've read the authors in BSD, I am such an intellectual...". JJK was absolutely ruined by the covid anime simps etc etc...
Ah, but BNHA was always like that tbh.
06 10,2024
The chaos is fine what’s a fandom without chaos anyway but I literally just can’t fathom why these vultures go out their way to attack artists and other fans that make free content and everything istg like let people enjoy things but yeah like you said they probably just don’t have a life lmao. And yeah then there’s post 2021 where the covid anime babies started to take over fandom spaces ..