thankfully on mailing lists and forums that are long gone)
I'm glad for that myself.
I've also noticed that current fandom culture encourages not being too invested in your fandom. It seems part of the whole "don't be cringey" movement, and I wonder if it stems from the direct fan/creator interaction that's now—to my continuous horror—commonplace on social media.
Huh, interesting. That could definitely be part of it; people don't want to seem TOO enthused. It could also be that with the focus on the figure and twitter, that becomes the fandom.
I also think that with fandom being easier to find, you get a lot of people who join discussion communities, but who aren't actually all that fannish. So they like a thing, but the concept of being actively obsessive the way fandomers once were evades them. They're really there for more cut and dry discussions than overly enthused, meta ones.
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I'm glad for that myself.
I've also noticed that current fandom culture encourages not being too invested in your fandom. It seems part of the whole "don't be cringey" movement, and I wonder if it stems from the direct fan/creator interaction that's now—to my continuous horror—commonplace on social media.
Huh, interesting. That could definitely be part of it; people don't want to seem TOO enthused. It could also be that with the focus on the figure and twitter, that becomes the fandom.
I also think that with fandom being easier to find, you get a lot of people who join discussion communities, but who aren't actually all that fannish. So they like a thing, but the concept of being actively obsessive the way fandomers once were evades them. They're really there for more cut and dry discussions than overly enthused, meta ones.