There is still, in the year of our lord 2023, and active sporking comm on dreamwidth! I run into it on site searches every so often.

But yeah, I do not miss Mary Sue hunts, or sporking, and how popular it was. I don't miss friends list drama.

There really have been times where I wanted to be in fandom as I was in 2006, and just found it wasn't possible, the people weren't there. And trying to match fetch happen just made things worse, mental healthwise. The only solution I've had to those times is to turn off the Internet for a couple weeks and try to reset.