#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco
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Re: Fandom Venting
From: (Anonymous)The LJ-type of fandom was already disappearing before tumblr came on the scene. Things were never the same after Strikethrough (2007, IIRC), and while some fandoms limped along for another few years, I think if anything the existence of tumblr and a few other spaces like FFA and AO3 have helped preserve a still extant fannish continuum that's still recognizable to me. Unlike the fandom a 13-year old in my life participates in where she's never heard of DW or AO3 and watches LP videos on YouTube, reads septicplier fic on Quotev and posts FNaF memes on Instagram of all places (if you think Tumblr is bad, at least reblogging is a thing there).
While I do agree that having a conversation is much harder on tumblr than on LJ, I think that's why tumblr is thriving now. It's what people want. Older people don't have the time for more than that and younger people aren't interested. They don't want to do anything they can't do from a phone. I may not like Twitter fic, for example. But if Twitter didn't exist, those people wouldn't be waiting and gathering their sentences in one document and waiting to post it at all once. They'd be posting it piecemeal somewhere else or not writing at all.
Re: Fandom Venting
From: (Anonymous)As an older person who never got into tumblr, it's weirdly because tumblr seemed to take more time. I could never feel like I caught up with it. LJ/DW I could just go back to where I left off and skim my reading list. I have now caught up with everything that happened in fandom since I last checked it, since I had a big list and a lot of people who linked things that were going on.
Tumblr just makes me feel like I'm missing things all the time and stresses me the fuck out. ...so I consciously choose to miss everything and ignore it entirely, which is oddly more relaxing. My fandom experience these days is entirely anon memes and AO3. It's very soothing.
Re: Fandom Venting
From: (Anonymous)Tumblr has a higher learning curve, too, compared to LJ/DW. I swear it was a couple of years before I could even figure out who was saying what in a reblog chain. It's not ideal by any means, but one of the reasons I do like Tumblr is that I don't have to catch up on everything. I miss loads of stuff, but it's all gifs and photos and things I don't need to know about to participate in fandom.
Re: Fandom Venting
From: (Anonymous)Re: Fandom Venting
From: (Anonymous)Yeah, I'm too much of a completist to do tumblr. I was there for a bit, in a different fandom, but I only followed like six people. Now, I have one tumblr that I check fairly frequently and another I scroll back through a bit either when I hear some fandom stuff has esploded or when I get an ao3 notif they have new fic. I can't remember the last time I logged in, much less looked at my dash.
Re: Fandom Venting
From: (Anonymous)I agree that I'm probably late on the conversation, but I wanted to give things a real chance before I complained about it. After several years now, yeah - I just don't find fandom through tumblr and twitter to be very satisfying. I just miss talking to other fans - probably a sign that I'm really fucking old.