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dekedangle_rpfanonThis is the twenty-fourth post of Deke Dangle RPF Anon, a community for all your ice hockey anon meme needs.
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Re: Fandom Venting
From: (Anonymous)you can't tell them they're wrong because you noticed that Letang doesn't appear much in fic, when that's the very thing they were pointing out and seeking and explanation for in the first place.
I wasn't saying that, though, or at least that is not what I meant to say, which is that I can't tell that Letang is very popular with fic fandom in any context. Like, he very rarely shows up on my Tumblr dash. Obviously that's limited by the people I follow, but it's not like I've selected for people who don't post about Letang. This is as opposed to Flower, for example, who doesn't get much shippy fic about him but shows up in fic all the time on the side.
So, I'm not sold on Letang being evidence for "Players can be popular in fic fandom without them showing up in fic, even when a lot of fic is being written for their team."
Re: Fandom Venting
From: (Anonymous)Re: Fandom Venting
From: (Anonymous)That's not what you said at all. You pointed out that meme usually implies an RPF context (implying you thought people were missing that context, which they weren't), and that you expect RPF popular players to appear in fic (which other people do too, hence their surprise).
Like I said, you can disagree with people's evaluations of Letang's fandom popularity (which I guess you do). But if someone says "I'm so surprised, Letang is so popular but there's no fic about him," and someone else replies, "No, you're wrong, Letang isn't popular because I haven't read fic about him"... that is circular. The original new complainer basically said that, and your first comment made it sound like you were agreeing with that.
Re: Fandom Venting
From: (Anonymous)