tomgirls, tomboys what's the difference

re-bi-vebur

quinnonimp

had to make this with the qsmp duck

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radishearts

thediktatortot

Not people saying “Fandom has always been like this” in that vent post I made. No. It hasn’t always been like this. Fandom has NEVER been like this until recently and if you were in fandom pre-tumblr purge, pre-twitter, pre-netflix boom, pre-tiktok….then you would fucking know it was nothing like this.

We still had the drive to create. We still sold prints and charms and made zines…but it was never like this.

The introduction of streaming, binge shows that drop all at once, tiktok and vine RIP i still love u vine but you were the beginning of a particularly ugly era) creating this bite sized, quick paced ‘content’ era of creation and it bled out into fucking everything else.

Fandoms didn’t die down when the show ended or the season was over. You didn’t mass unfollow artist, writers or moots just because they changed fandoms. There wasn’t this need to please the algorithm in order for your posts to get seen by people and enjoyed.

Fandoms used to last YEARS. Star Trek is literally the oldest running fandom out there and you got people in there that could care less about the new stuff and still have been happily prancing through their fucking fifty year old fandom today. Hell, even SPN after all it’s fuckups and shitshows has a dedicated fanbase STILL creating tons of art and fic.

There is no patience anymore. No calm feeling of taking in fandom and friends at a pace that which doesn’t make you stressed and is still fun.

Do I blame fandom for this? Of course not, but people are complacent with it and start changing their vocab to accommodate and end up making the situation so deep it cant be fixed.

We call Art & Fic Content now, completely stripping the value of what it is to a level of consumerism instead of personal entertainment & community bonding.

violettenouvel

Let OP talk, they’re absolutely right.

lokihiddleston

luzublogs

megabuild

lemme tell u this we need more mcyt characters who are unashamedly fucked up villains. unfortunately with the way everything works right now that's unlikely

megabuild

if its a kid-friendly server then the ccs risk getting a lot of negative commentary, hate, views dropping off because their younger audience can't conceptualise opposing sides, if its more adult-focused then the ccs still risk getting hate and even stuff like death threats from their audience because people get parasocially attached, even if none of that happens people don't know how to conceptualise villains because so much fandom reading and character analysis (not just in mcyt but i do see it as a big problem here tbh) is black and white thinking of either they're an irredeemable cunt or they're just fine and have done nothing wrong ever. shit sucks

megabuild

Actually at this point it would be really nice to just have a character that does bad things or hurts other maybe even intentionally maybe without good reason or trying to do the "right thing". Without people instantly trying to sort them into a box of "misunderstood baby who we need to forgive first time they apologise" or "fucked up (girl)boss chaa who is evil and murders and we love that for them". People will talk about morally grey characters all the time but like. Where are they.