#one of my earliest fandoms was a Lois & Clark TNAOS message board

[hussyknee]

Not denying that the current state of discourse has taken new and distressing trends, but having been in online fandoms going on twenty years now, seeing people being like "I hate how fandoms are no longer places of fun but stress and toxicity" has me like??!!!? Bitch, fandoms have always been a few months of fun engagement and then fighting for your fucking life. Just because Web 2.0 has exacerbated some of the problems doesn't mean you get to be ahistorical about it, like an Elf yearning for the Gray Havens

#put down those rosy glasses #do y'all not remember fandom_wank #the Fall of Fictionally #the cults #the MsScribe drama #when the Supernatural fandom was tiny but so absolutely batshit we were already a cautionary tale #in competition with only Doctor Who has the wankiest fandom #one of my earliest fandoms was a Lois & Clark TNAOS message board #very tiny because the show had been over nearly ten years by that point #the place had a schism in six months #and one faction set up their own message board #the next two years was basically degenerating into wank about having fanfiction awards and trigger warnings #and half of them slowly descending into alt right politics #basically exactly the pattern every discord server falls into #this is just how humans are #i'm imagining pre-internet fandom was the same except you had to stew two weeks in between replies #and had to fire off 'AND!! ANOTHER THING-' by telegram idk #fandom #fan history #fandom history #shipping discourse #fandom wankery #knee of huss