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#23 — Brown Goes Down
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Re: Fandom Venting
(Anonymous) 2016-05-15 04:03 am (UTC)(link)I think that's at least partially rose-tinted glasses, though. Fandom was chock full of romance tropes and fluff when I got into it in the late 90s/early 2000s, the same way that it is now. Some of the writing conventions have changed over the last two decades, including style preferences, etc, and it's obviously a lot more centralized than it was back when a lot of fic was being posted to mailing lists, individual sites, and the like. Back then, you knew which sites, lists, LJ communities, etc, would post stories that specifically catered to dark fic or whatever other interests you might have. I knew where to find dark fic for a lot of my fandoms because it was what I enjoyed and the people I followed also enjoyed it. Now, it's more common for people to dig through fandom tags on AO3, and tagging for certain tropes, themes, kinks, etc, can be unreliable at best.
There are also just a lot of people who enjoy fluff and who have always enjoyed fluff. This is especially true in RPF (it's been this way in every RPF fandom I've been in, except maybe bandom, which was a bit of an outlier but also had it's fair share of fluff) and it's also true in fictional fandoms that have a darker canon.
And I am an Old, but there are a ton of us out there still. I don't think it's that there's a higher proportion of young people in fandom, honestly. I think it's that the attitude around age has changed, since back in the day it was kids (myself included) lying about their age so as not to be judged (and also to gain access to things), and now it's flipped and there's a bit of a "ew, old people" vibe instead.
(Also, the world has always and will always be crappy, but the past always looks better because of nostalgia.)
Re: Fandom Venting
(Anonymous) 2016-05-15 05:05 am (UTC)(link)Yeah, I got into fandom as a lurker in 98 and an active participant in 00, and I remember reading lots of long "case file" stories in X-Files, which were the same kind of HEA romance stories you see now. However, those often still had their dark side, because of the source material, and there was a big group of people writing fic that was totally different, which I also saw in Jossverse fic and other contemporary fandoms. So there's always been fluff, but there was a big place for a kind of writing that's mostly vanished, in my experience.
I also don't think there's any denying fandom is proportionately skewed younger than it used to be, at least vocal, mainstream AO3-type fandom (versus the "feral fandom" message boards and similar places where younger fans used to hang out). I only knew a handful of other college students back then, and if I look around now, 80-90% of the people I knew in fandom pre-2005 or so have long since transitioned out. The rise of mobile devices/everyone having home internet really made it easier for younger people with more time on their hands to get involved from a much younger age, and it IS a time-consuming hobby so I know people who got busy with their lives and moved on.