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I could write an essay on how Covid & TikTok ruined fandom spaces
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Anonymous 10w

wait give me the summary I’m curious

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Anonymous 10w

YES! PLEASE! (Can u add AO3 please)

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Anonymous 10w

i’m apart of fandoms on twt and i kinda love how no matter how much we disagree on certain things, we can all band together to attack the tt version of our fandom 😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 10w

So like back when fandom had its own spaces (Tumblr [sorta], AO3, Wattpad, Quotev, etc) we all like self-delegated. Like nobody LIKED proshippers but we were just “okay gross keep that over there” and ppl who liked crossovers had their own little corner & shit like that yk. When covid happened & all the ppl who wouldn’t usually be in fandom spaces suddenly had nothing else to do I feel like the rules changed & suddenly a character HAD to act a certain way but was also wildly mischaracterized

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 10w

& ppl stopped understanding grey areas when it comes to characters. Shipping characters from dif universes suddenly became weird despite it being a staple of “fandom” culture(?) ykwim

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 10w

I was introduced to fandom in 2014 superwholock tumblr & even I can say the tt fandom spaces are CRAZY

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