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dekedangle_rpf_mod ([personal profile] dekedangle_rpf_mod) wrote in [community profile] dekedangle_rpfanon2016-07-12 04:32 pm

#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

This is the twenty-sixth post of Deke Dangle RPF Anon, a community for all your ice hockey anon meme needs.

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Re: Fandom Venting

(Anonymous) 2016-09-06 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
DA

Maybe it's all subjective, but to me "I have chosen to interpret Seguin's behavior and actions in a way that is pretty contrary to reality in order to support my theory that he's gay" is tinhatting. The bending of reality in strange ways is the defining line.

Re: Fandom Venting

(Anonymous) 2016-09-06 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
+1

Re: Fandom Venting

(Anonymous) 2016-09-06 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
If you're counting all of Seguin's douchebro-i-ness as something special snowflake-y in, I can see that as tinhatting. But if you're just talking about the one tweet, he was (unintentionally) calling himself gay too, because he was dumb and didn't pick up on the intendre, and I can see how it would be fun to assume he meant it in fic.

Re: Fandom Venting

(Anonymous) 2016-09-06 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
But there's also the difference between writing fic and believing something is true. If the author had just written another "that tweet was actually Seguin drunkenly coming out" fic, I wouldn't call it tinhatting. The tinhatting part comes from the comments, where they seem to earnestly believe that is what happened in reality, or at least consider it highly likely.

Re: Fandom Venting

(Anonymous) 2016-09-06 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah, exactly. in a previous rpf fandom i was in people CONTINUALLY had to make posts stating they didn't actually believe x and y were fucking, they were just being hyperbolic, because otherwise the actual tinhatters thought they were part of their little club.

... this could actually apply to three of my former fandoms now that i think about it. people never change.

Re: Fandom Venting

(Anonymous) 2016-09-06 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
da

Ok, but are you the upthread one asking how we're defining tinhatting? Because the comment that question replied to upthread specified it's not just something in fic, and people who don't read Seguin fic have noticed it. This is definitely going on outside the context of fiction, so "I can see how it would be fun to assume he meant it in fic" is a weird diversion of the conversation. Fans go out their way to interpret all his douche-bro-i-ness as special snowflake-y, so when it's the same fans doing that who are doing this... yeah, it's tinhatting.