Gonna be a bit brutal here...
Okay, so most of you are familiar with the comm fandomsecrets, right? Because I recently started watching it, and I read the posts, and...I find the whole exercise, more and more, to just be really pathetic.
I DID warn you about the brutal honesty.
Anyway. What I find pathetic about it, in two parts:
Part the First: The fact that the internet has created such a culture where it is so easy and acceptable to hate on people for their opinions that we even NEED a comm like this. Seriously, if you pay attention, the vast majority of those "secret" posts are just people's opinions, and not even deep dark secrets either, just things like not liking a particularly popular character or ship. Then you have the ones like, "such and such fandom brought me out of a really dark period in my life" and honestly, why does that need to be secret?
Part the Second: Related to that last bit I said, what kind of people are so insecure about something as ultimately inconsequential as fandom that they can't even air their likes and dislikes publicly? Who CARES if you're not a fan of Organization XIII, or you like the Exiles better than the Trolls, or you thought Zuko was a whiny little bitch, or didn't like the way Annabeth was written? No one that matters! This is just a fun thing! I mean, I'm up to my eyeballs in fanboy pursuits, and I know full well that this isn't earth-shattering. My world isn't going to come crashing down because Character A hooked up with Character B instead of Character C. And as for those people who say "fandom saved my life," if that's true, then why are you secretive about it? Because reading something like that implies to me that you're ashamed that something as "not real" as a book or cartoon kept you from giving up. If that's the way it is, that's the way it is. Be proud.
ALL OF YA! BE PROUD OF WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU THINK.
Funny story...I was going to post this as a secret, but then I realized the intense hypocrisy of doing so.
I DID warn you about the brutal honesty.
Anyway. What I find pathetic about it, in two parts:
Part the First: The fact that the internet has created such a culture where it is so easy and acceptable to hate on people for their opinions that we even NEED a comm like this. Seriously, if you pay attention, the vast majority of those "secret" posts are just people's opinions, and not even deep dark secrets either, just things like not liking a particularly popular character or ship. Then you have the ones like, "such and such fandom brought me out of a really dark period in my life" and honestly, why does that need to be secret?
Part the Second: Related to that last bit I said, what kind of people are so insecure about something as ultimately inconsequential as fandom that they can't even air their likes and dislikes publicly? Who CARES if you're not a fan of Organization XIII, or you like the Exiles better than the Trolls, or you thought Zuko was a whiny little bitch, or didn't like the way Annabeth was written? No one that matters! This is just a fun thing! I mean, I'm up to my eyeballs in fanboy pursuits, and I know full well that this isn't earth-shattering. My world isn't going to come crashing down because Character A hooked up with Character B instead of Character C. And as for those people who say "fandom saved my life," if that's true, then why are you secretive about it? Because reading something like that implies to me that you're ashamed that something as "not real" as a book or cartoon kept you from giving up. If that's the way it is, that's the way it is. Be proud.
ALL OF YA! BE PROUD OF WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU THINK.
Funny story...I was going to post this as a secret, but then I realized the intense hypocrisy of doing so.