God this is gonna sound like bragging but a few of the founders of Ao3 write TF fic on the reg so yeah that's on point at least but also the very well received run of the IDW comics that doubled down on Cybertron being homonormative and having no concept of gender just ended and most of the Tumblr fandom I know came in through that one or the Prime cartoon from 2012. TFP apparently had an early example of a Garbage Tumblr Fandom and considering how everyone who is into TF is into basically all of TF, I can believe it.
(Except me, I'm doggedly refusing to become a fan of the comics. Sue me, I get awful Hype Backlash and being told that the underwhelming-looking thing is actually zomgthebestever does it for me.)
IDK what it is. I guess it's just... people not being exposed to "fandom" before they start engaging with it because people find their ways into these communities through the thing they like, and not knowing how the fuck to behave themselves. I could see there having been some merit to the current backlash when it started because so much of the functionality of Tumblr has always relied on the people using it acting in good faith (and I saw my fair share of "lmao I'm not tagging anything for anyone, don't follow me if you don't wanna see my content" back when tags were the only way to find anything. Curiously people don't talk about how everything got worse when Tumblr moved to full text search, and how Twitter has always been a full-text search platform)
People just... don't form communities anymore, having only one-on-one friendships and then treating the shared idea of a thing as a community. And that means nobody has any fucking manners anymore.
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(Except me, I'm doggedly refusing to become a fan of the comics. Sue me, I get awful Hype Backlash and being told that the underwhelming-looking thing is actually zomgthebestever does it for me.)
IDK what it is. I guess it's just... people not being exposed to "fandom" before they start engaging with it because people find their ways into these communities through the thing they like, and not knowing how the fuck to behave themselves. I could see there having been some merit to the current backlash when it started because so much of the functionality of Tumblr has always relied on the people using it acting in good faith (and I saw my fair share of "lmao I'm not tagging anything for anyone, don't follow me if you don't wanna see my content" back when tags were the only way to find anything. Curiously people don't talk about how everything got worse when Tumblr moved to full text search, and how Twitter has always been a full-text search platform)
People just... don't form communities anymore, having only one-on-one friendships and then treating the shared idea of a thing as a community. And that means nobody has any fucking manners anymore.