That makes sense! But I think you're maybe using the word "community" differently from how I am, and it's possible that I used it differently from how others others meant it? I feel like there was more of a sense of community when the juggernauts were more popular, and that people were not as loosely dispersed. But I didn't necessarily "feel community" as something that I had. I understood the a-airt-rt as saying (amongst other things) that fandom felt more cohesive before and feels more spread out into smaller groups now, and I agree and in a lot of ways find that more pleasant to deal with.
I know a lot of people got into non-juggernaut teams and pairings and stayed attached to those pairings even though they came into fandom through juggernaut fic, but I suspect that that also happens less often when the juggernaut activity declines. But I think maybe I conflated fandom size/growth with the idea that there's a sense of fandom community.
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Re: Fandom Venting
From: (Anonymous)That makes sense! But I think you're maybe using the word "community" differently from how I am, and it's possible that I used it differently from how others others meant it? I feel like there was more of a sense of community when the juggernauts were more popular, and that people were not as loosely dispersed. But I didn't necessarily "feel community" as something that I had. I understood the a-airt-rt as saying (amongst other things) that fandom felt more cohesive before and feels more spread out into smaller groups now, and I agree and in a lot of ways find that more pleasant to deal with.
I know a lot of people got into non-juggernaut teams and pairings and stayed attached to those pairings even though they came into fandom through juggernaut fic, but I suspect that that also happens less often when the juggernaut activity declines. But I think maybe I conflated fandom size/growth with the idea that there's a sense of fandom community.