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Fandom is so different now and it’s becoming un-fun with how quickly shit moves.
I just want to enjoy things. I don’t want to have to play a game of Artist-Race that seems to be afoot lately.
Ya’ll eat up fandoms, leave artists and writers bone dry and then move on so fucking quickly then fucking wonder where all the Good Fandom Stuff is.
Idk Maybe cherish some things for longer. Reblog stuff. Interact with people. Comment and share.
Fandom is Capitalism now and I’m not being nuanced.
people also seem obsessed with only Doing Fandom about currently active works?
“oh, I’m so sad that show ended! I really miss the fandom!” who said you have to leave, coward
The only way around that this Fandom Old can see is to Actively Make Your Fandom Fun.
Back in the 90s, the fandom I delurked to join wasn’t the one for my favorite show, wasn’t the most recent thing I’d seen, wasn’t the one with the best fanfiction or anything else. It was the one that made being in the fandom look like a good time.
They had Official Fandom Factions that people declared allegiance to (as many as they wanted) and we had Fandom Wars every six months or so in which the fandom had a fun fanfiction battle in which people competed for their Faction.
Every week we had discussion on a different episode of the show. (This was pretty standard on listservs back in the day.) People created fan works as gifts for other fans in exchange for donated money or time for various causes. (Letter writing campaigns to support the show or encourage dvd releases were common, but also more traditional charity campaigns.) There were giveaways and silly themed days and events….
So..I don’t know…if you want to keep a fandom alive once a show has stopped airing, make it fun. Fandoms get bored after a while and the only thing they have to do is have more and more bitter discourse these days. Maybe if we could create elaborate imaginary bases for our faves and launch toilet paper attacks on other fans’ bases (yes this is the kind of shit we did) we would all relax a little.
I think we all need a little enrichment in our enclosures, in other words. And if we don’t find that in fandom, we will just move on to the next act of consumption.
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