Avatar

Fish Fingers and Custard

@jellybabiestomanual / jellybabiestomanual.tumblr.com

Hi! You can call me Jelly. This here is my blog. Feel free to look around :) Navigation is drop down at the bottom of the page. I have a serious problem with a person called Jensen Ackles. And by problem you should probably read raging crush on. Can currently be found in Final Fantasy XV, Overwatch, and Persona 5 hell. Very thirsty for Dean Winchester and Ignis Scientia. Flight Rising : celeblanthir #32953
Posts
Avatar
reblogged
hils79
Avatar
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.

Avatar
clpolk

you ruined a perfectly good pastime is what you did, look at it, it’s got capitalism

Avatar
reblogged
hils79
Avatar
difeisheng

no multiverse hollywood can dream up will ever compare to the mind of a fanfic writer and the collection of aus on their ao3 profile

You are using an unsupported browser and things might not work as intended. Please make sure you're using the latest version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge.