Huh! What year did you get into fandom? I got my LJ in...2003, I think? And LJ fandom was so awesome back then, from about 2003 to maybe early 2007. Then Strikethrough happened and everything went to shit, haha.
And yeah, fandom certainly wasn't this utopia but at least it was all contained. And people could make communities and moderate those communities so if you hated something, you could just refrain from joining the comm! Now everything tagged and thrown together and it just seems to make the drama so much worse. There's xkit but tbh if you have add so much code and work arounds to make a site usable, welp! Maybe that should be a sign that there's a problem. :\
But the bigger question for me is, even if fandom were on a better platform and even if it were like it was back then, I'm not. I just don't have the time to spend obsessing over things like I used to (and that's very much what fandom was for me; an obsession). And I think I'm finally realizing and coming to terms with that. That just as fandom is never going to be like it was 15 years ago, neither am I. And that's okay. That's to be expected.
But it's a hard realization to come to terms with, haha.
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Date: 2017-03-19 01:22 pm (UTC)And yeah, fandom certainly wasn't this utopia but at least it was all contained. And people could make communities and moderate those communities so if you hated something, you could just refrain from joining the comm! Now everything tagged and thrown together and it just seems to make the drama so much worse. There's xkit but tbh if you have add so much code and work arounds to make a site usable, welp! Maybe that should be a sign that there's a problem. :\
But the bigger question for me is, even if fandom were on a better platform and even if it were like it was back then, I'm not. I just don't have the time to spend obsessing over things like I used to (and that's very much what fandom was for me; an obsession). And I think I'm finally realizing and coming to terms with that. That just as fandom is never going to be like it was 15 years ago, neither am I. And that's okay. That's to be expected.
But it's a hard realization to come to terms with, haha.