On July 5, 2014 Fail Fandom Anon will officially move to Dreamwidth. For the last four years the meme has found a welcoming home on LiveJournal. Due to the increasing extended technical outages of LiveJournal service and the unreliability of the LiveJournal platform we will be moving by choice -- before a LJ collapse forces a sudden relocation.
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This was pretty obviously the mods' endgame since the hyphen outage, so I'd already worked out I was going to be one of those flouncers being mocked in the current dw header (classy touch, btw.) I'm calling it a day now, though: no point in hanging around on lj while the meme dies a slow death for the next few months.
I've lived almost all of my active fandom life on lj, and never really made the transitions either to AO3 or to Tumblr. I have avoided DW from the start from choice and have no interest in changing that decision. But having thought about it in the last few days, I think I've also finally reached the point in my life where I'm no longer a 'fan' in the fannish sense of it, of anything. I watch TV and films and read books and like some of those things much more than others, sometimes talk to friends about what I've seen/read, but I don't write meta or fic anymore, and I don't seem to be reading any of it either.
So, for me this is timely, it's finally time for me to quit the fandom anonmemeing for good.
Thank you to all the nonnies I've had non-trollish exchanges with here in the last three years. When it was good it was very, very good, and I've learned a lot and even re-thought my very stubbornly entrenched views on a few things.
And meme, sometimes you were very, very, very wickedly funny.
Good luck anons.
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I have nothing to add to your comment but for the sake of accuracy, I think the header was a reference to the thread below about SFWA. I've never seen the mods mock anyone's preference for dw or lj.
http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/85632.html?thread=413714816#cmt413714816
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I thought it was mocking meme, flouncing to DW. Isn't that what we used to do when people stormed away from lj?
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We've spent the past several days trying to make sure we aren't being dicks to nonnies who prefer to stay on LJ. We'd have vastly preferred it ourselves, had the tech issues not reached the point where we felt our hand was forced.
I've been in fandom here since 2006. I don't plan to leave LJ as my primary fannish space, since my fandom is basically nonexistent on DW and on Tumblr there's no fic happening. It's only for meme's purposes that LJ has become increasingly frustrating for an increasing number of users.
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Anyway, I'm sorry you're not feeling fannish anymore. I went through a period of a few years where I lost touch with fandom myself, and even though it was probably better for my mental health at the time, I still missed it. Good luck on whatever new endeavor you partake in, nonnie!
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I didn't even realize it could be interpreted as commentary on the LJ vs. DW issue. I'm sorry for any misunderstandings that resulted from this.
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