Ngl, yeah it does kind of concern me that old fandom attitudes are being washed away and replaced by increasingly sanitized and shame filled viewpoints.
It makes me so sad to think that some of the niche and weird communities that had so much personality and life, the communities I spent lurking in as a child and young teen, discovering who I was and shaped my current world view. Are going to be sanded off and forgotten, in favour of a culture that is easy to monetize off of. And was created in order to further ship wars.
old fandom wasn’t perfect by any means, and I’d be happy to talk about critiques I had of it. But I just want people to be able to have a group that embraced their weird and strange quirks. That allowed genuine weirdness, not just an acceptable “normal” and an acceptable “weird.”
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