Snowflake Challenge: Fandom, A History

[author_by_night]

 In your own space, talk about your fannish history. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so. Timeline, narrative, bullet points, tell us your history as a fan!

Oh boy. The deer is teal with this one. Some of it's things a lot of you've heard before, but I tried to mention things I

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[frelling_tralk]

The presence of so many people my age there would cause a lot of consternation in subsequent years, but that's a whole other story. (Being an adult now, I can see both sides. On the one hand, I'm sure all of us using purple font and saying LOL while quoting lines got annoying. On the other hand, from what I remember anyway, some of them could be a little mean.

Aww I do remember back in the early 2000’s that I posted on a Buffy message board where we were rather mean to a very enthusiastic 15 year old who kept posting with constant smilies and nothing else lol. It’s weird to think that they’d probably fit in better with today’s internet even when it comes to expressing yourself through gifs...

And my early LJ was super emo as well, I’ve made all of those entries private now XD It’s been around since 2003 now, and it’s hard to even recognise myself in some of the older entries. I was 21, so it wasn’t even like I was a teenager still, but it just feels like a lifetime ago when I cringe over those old entries. And some of the not so old ones as well!

[author_by_night]

I'll admit in later years, I wasn't mean to younger fans per se, but I could be a bit condescending without meaning to. And I will say... while many young fans I knew were very mature, others were very immature and could even take away from discussions. I don't remember which one of those I was. (I do know I posted some really dumb threads, but that was more due to me trying too hard. If that makes sense. For instance, there was a nitpick forum, and I came up with the dumbest thing ever to nitpick. Everyone laughed at me.)

Oh, even my early twenties self wrote entries that were quite melodramatic. I think that even though 21 isn't a teenager, you are still younger, and I also think that people sound/act younger online. Some of my posts are very cringeworthy, and I even lost a few friends because I said some things that I probably shouldn't have.