On FBR/MCR Bandom and the Fourth Wall
Okay, guys, seriously. Yes, sometimes in this fandom the fourth wall gets taken down for a bit. But, well. Here's the thing. We post porn in public spaces. Most of us do not lock it down, and not all of us have "robots, go away!" flags set on our journals. And we are not the only ones who write porn - it's all over Buzznet, Quizilla, Myspace, and all the bands' official boards. Even if we all locked down tomorrow and took everything this corner of fandom had written out of public spaces, there would still be porn for these people to potentially find.
You can not force other people to have the same issues you do. You can not force other people to lock down their fic or make their journals ungoogleable, just like you can't force the teenies who post fanfic on the official boards to stop doing it. Not everyone interacts with fandom the way you do. And no matter what you say, a lot of them never will.
Also, this is an rpf fandom where a good number of the people we're writing about have blogs. Lots of them, in multiple different places. These are not people who are unfamiliar with the workings of the internet. And even if they're not particularly famous in the grand scheme of things, like Alex Suarez or Brent Wilson or, hell, Andy Hurley, they know that they have small but rabid fanbases. They know what they're going to find if they google themselves, if they have google alerts on themselves, or if even if they have a website and they check their referrer stats. They're going to find fansites. They're going to find lots and lots of fansites. And that some of them will include porn, written about them. Others will include speculation about their siblings names and people asking for directions to their houses and whether or not they should bring a box to stand on to be able to look in the windows. I think that, possibly, they're slightly more worried about the latter. But to get back, if they look themselves up, they know what they're going to find. And we can't make them stop looking themselves up.
And if they do look themselves up and read porn, we can't make them not talk about it. They're not part of fandom, or at least not part of the part of fandom we're in. They don't know our customs or "rules". Hell, it takes a ridiculously long time for those of us in fandom to grasp fandom's "rules". So of course when they find porn about themselves, they're going to talk about it. They're going to send links to their friends and laugh or go O.o and sometimes it will get brought up in interviews. Thankfully, most of the people we focus on in our corner of bandom seem to mostly think the porn is funny. Which yes, some people may find belittling to their hobby, but it's a lot better than horrified screaming. ...and hell, I think the fact that I spend large amounts of my free time reading porn starring celebrities is pretty funny too, when it comes right down to it.
Honestly, if the thought of anyone connected to the bands reading your fic/squee/etc bothers you, you should either be locked down so tight that you never even comment on unlocked entries or in any public spaces and only visit their sites/blogs using a proxy (and even there you have no guarantee that fangirl x that just friended you is not actually Pete Wentz's longstanding fandom sockpuppet), or you should... probably not be in this particular rpf fandom. Try CWRPS, I hear that the BSOs over there aren't all internet savvy geeks. Or else you could just try and forget about it and not change the way you're interacting with fandom, which is what really makes the most sense here.
You can not force other people to have the same issues you do. You can not force other people to lock down their fic or make their journals ungoogleable, just like you can't force the teenies who post fanfic on the official boards to stop doing it. Not everyone interacts with fandom the way you do. And no matter what you say, a lot of them never will.
Also, this is an rpf fandom where a good number of the people we're writing about have blogs. Lots of them, in multiple different places. These are not people who are unfamiliar with the workings of the internet. And even if they're not particularly famous in the grand scheme of things, like Alex Suarez or Brent Wilson or, hell, Andy Hurley, they know that they have small but rabid fanbases. They know what they're going to find if they google themselves, if they have google alerts on themselves, or if even if they have a website and they check their referrer stats. They're going to find fansites. They're going to find lots and lots of fansites. And that some of them will include porn, written about them. Others will include speculation about their siblings names and people asking for directions to their houses and whether or not they should bring a box to stand on to be able to look in the windows. I think that, possibly, they're slightly more worried about the latter. But to get back, if they look themselves up, they know what they're going to find. And we can't make them stop looking themselves up.
And if they do look themselves up and read porn, we can't make them not talk about it. They're not part of fandom, or at least not part of the part of fandom we're in. They don't know our customs or "rules". Hell, it takes a ridiculously long time for those of us in fandom to grasp fandom's "rules". So of course when they find porn about themselves, they're going to talk about it. They're going to send links to their friends and laugh or go O.o and sometimes it will get brought up in interviews. Thankfully, most of the people we focus on in our corner of bandom seem to mostly think the porn is funny. Which yes, some people may find belittling to their hobby, but it's a lot better than horrified screaming. ...and hell, I think the fact that I spend large amounts of my free time reading porn starring celebrities is pretty funny too, when it comes right down to it.
Honestly, if the thought of anyone connected to the bands reading your fic/squee/etc bothers you, you should either be locked down so tight that you never even comment on unlocked entries or in any public spaces and only visit their sites/blogs using a proxy (and even there you have no guarantee that fangirl x that just friended you is not actually Pete Wentz's longstanding fandom sockpuppet), or you should... probably not be in this particular rpf fandom. Try CWRPS, I hear that the BSOs over there aren't all internet savvy geeks. Or else you could just try and forget about it and not change the way you're interacting with fandom, which is what really makes the most sense here.