#which permanently soured the Twitter Fandom Experience for me*

[stormblessed95]

Has your interest in BTS / jikook / Jimin / Jungkook declined since solo era has started? Have you noticed any trend like that in the fandom?

My tl gets unusually quiet nowadays which makes me wonder if everyone's kind of ia nowadays, or if twitter is just bugging out, or if it just means it's time to find new accounts to follow.

For me overall, I feel like the number of casual BTS fans has greatly increased and is still doing so despite their hiatus because of their solo works but I do feel like the core fandom that used to be so involved in organised fan events, voting, edits etc has actually shrunk recently. I'm also unsure if people are just on a temporary hiatus themselves as they're more invested in group activities only or if they've permanently left. People leaving is normal of course, but when the number who leave >> new people who join, that's a sign of the fandom weakening.

For me personally, I've just got a lot going on, so I'm not participating vocally in fandom spaces as much as I used to. I have a bookstagram account on insta that had quite a bit of a following that I haven't posted on in MONTHS. I just haven't had the time! Lol so it's not just tumblr/bts/jikook. I promise. I talked about what I've got going on briefly here:

So as for fandom trends in chapter 2, I haven't been keeping up with it unfortunately, so im probably not the best person to ask. I HAVE been keeping up with BTS, their debuts, their solos, their interviews, voting, etc. Just not so much with ARMY/what ARMY has been thinking outside my very carefully curated feed as much as I used to right now.

So has my interest in BTS/jikook faded? Not at all. Has my interest in WRITING about it on here faded? A bit. I had some not so great experiences on here this year that soured my joy of this hobby just a bit. As well as just how incredibly busy and exhausting my life is right now, its just not a priority for me and I'm leaning more into my fantasy escapism of books and fanfic more than I am writing in general and writing here about jikook at the moment. But I like to think that once my life chills out a bit more again, I will find more joy in this space again. And my interest hasn't gone away either, I still like being here and engaging with yall when I have the time and energy to do so!

I do think chapter 2 is bringing forth a fandom explosion in the way of solos and BTS doing more to insist on breaking the bubbles fans like to seem to put them in, but otherwise, idk what else to say. I don't think the fandom is weakening either. Jikook both just hit number 1 on billboard recently and all of BTS have been breaking records left snd right with their solo work! That's impressive stuff as always and the sign of a still very active and involved fanbase

[rimouskis]

Do you know any Pens general discussion discord that doesn't have much crossover with Reddit/Twitter users? I only started following hockey this season and I'm looking for a nontoxic Pens fandom space to discuss team stuff without toxic masculinity souring the experience for me :(

ah, no, I don't really do discords! (not typically, at least. I use it to chat with a few friends and I'm using it for @summerofsid, but I'm not really personally too interested in joining a chat room with strangers, so I don't participate in any!)

if you're trying to get away from #ToxicMasculinity, regrettably, I really think your best bet is tumblr.

#I get you though! #I like lurking on reddit for news/league stuff #and I use twitter to follow beat writers #but I stay out of their ''fandom'' spaces for fandom activities. #partially because I got harassed en-masse by c*ps fans on twitter in... like... 2017 or something #which permanently soured the Twitter Fandom Experience for me* #and partially because tumblr is really the only place I feel in indulging in fannish stuff like RPF. #twitter might work if one does a locked account and follows other locked accounts #(thus weeding out who can see their stuff) #but in all earnestness (and this is where my asterisk from earlier comes in): #*I don't think twitter is a good platform at all. #it's full of nuclear takes and accelerates inflammatory takes and incentivizes drama #and one might be able to avoid all those things if they put safety measures in place #but I really just find tumblr better for that these days. #anyways this is all to say: I totallyget your reluctance around twitter and reddit because they constantly commit a penalty of Too Many Men #I hope you find a discord or fandom space that suits your needs!