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>>I actually should have included pinboard! (and maybe delicious boo hiss). I spend a not insignificant amount of time looking through my network and even more often, what's recced/bookmarked on there in a huge list of tags I follow.
>>I should maybe have included youtube/similar specifically? They're online and I definitely watch vids, portions of movies,etc. that way.
>>Definitely should have included fanfiction.net!
>>Should probably include an "other archives" option as well for people reading/consuming fannish things on specific fandom archives
I spotted your DW post on DW Latest. I have been wondering about this exact question of what most people are doing where nowadays, so it was exciting to see a poll about that! I often feel that I'm slow to notice the direction in which everyone else is drifting. :P
I've added you over there, and will pass this link around...
Oh, that's awesome, glad you saw it and came over!
Definitely, spread the word -- you and anyone else. These questions were one big category of suggested questions people had... I think a lot of people have been wondering/thinking about the fannish diffusion. <3
i think the saving grace for my fandom's lj presence is the fact that it involves realtime events -- football matches -- where communal watching has been come a fandom norm. almost all of the news and pictures and stuff is now displaced to tumblr, where it can spread a lot faster, but the design of the dashboard makes it really difficult for a lot of people to gather and talk about a game. there's almost no direct interaction, and it's hard to follow along with other people's conversations if everyone isn't following one another. our livejournal comment spams for matches often hit 750+ comments, with a bunch of people talking part.
Wow, that's fascinating actually, because I feel like so much of "conversation" has moved to tumblr, but there's no longer that "put it in one place" feeling for me. But obviously this may just be dependent on what particular fandoms one is in! Fascinating. Certainly I remember in ai fandom there were constant lj ~gatherings like that.
Hmm, that's interesting because it sort of implies that where a fandom involves real life actual time events like a game or concert, there's more likely to be an lj/dw community gathering in one place with actual interaction?
I miss that interactive feel a lot. Tumblr just doesn't allow for the types of conversations/interactions that used to be common on lj. *gets cane* (it's fun in other ways though!)
p.s. also your 1d thing is adorable. i have another person i follow with similar proclivities and it's fun to watch the squee.
yeah, i think it's definitely a function of things happening in real time. when a tracked tag in tumblr is flying really fast, it's super hard to get any traction or follow what's going on. plus, the fact of it being live means that most of the initial reactions are in text -- it's much quicker to talk about something that just happened than to screencap it or gif it.
after the event is over, pretty quickly people move to tumblr -- for gifs and screencaps and videos. but the immediate communality of experience is still really powerful, and so far no other platform has been able to match livejournal in that regard.
also, re 1d, it's absurd. i cannot believe my fifteen year old cousin and i have similar interests.
...to be fair though, i doubt she fantasizes about fucking zayn malik with a strapon until he cries as much as i do, but who knows!
(hey, i was actually trying to come up with a list of fannish "hotspots" for something unrelated recently, and your set of poll options is the most complete that i've seen. mind if i snag it?)
hahah - your answer to "a huge fandom I'm currently enjoying" was exactly the same as mine, only I deleted that before answering - I'd written "Avengers - is that huge or merely large?"
This is a very interesting poll. I miss the "old" days when everyone was in one place. I have no interest in tumblr or the other things. And I feel like AO3 lends itself less toward feedback (I've noticed this changing with Avengers fandom, though) and conversation (this hasn't changed - it's just not set up that way). Though I adore it for reading fic. And I'll post there in the future - all my fic over there now is stuff previously posted on LJ, but next time I post fic, I'll just use AO3 and announce it on LJ. Anyway, very interesting to see what people are using - I'm a lemming, really. I'll go wherever people go, if only we all went the same place.
Too tired to fill out an entire poll. (Problem with polls for me is that there are always questions I find difficult and then I get stuck.) But some thoughts
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>>I actually should have included pinboard! (and maybe delicious boo hiss). I spend a not insignificant amount of time looking through my network and even more often, what's recced/bookmarked on there in a huge list of tags I follow.
>>I should maybe have included youtube/similar specifically? They're online and I definitely watch vids, portions of movies,etc. that way.
>>Definitely should have included fanfiction.net!
>>Should probably include an "other archives" option as well for people reading/consuming fannish things on specific fandom archives
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I've added you over there, and will pass this link around...
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Definitely, spread the word -- you and anyone else. These questions were one big category of suggested questions people had... I think a lot of people have been wondering/thinking about the fannish diffusion. <3
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Hmm, that's interesting because it sort of implies that where a fandom involves real life actual time events like a game or concert, there's more likely to be an lj/dw community gathering in one place with actual interaction?
I miss that interactive feel a lot. Tumblr just doesn't allow for the types of conversations/interactions that used to be common on lj. *gets cane* (it's fun in other ways though!)
p.s. also your 1d thing is adorable. i have another person i follow with similar proclivities and it's fun to watch the squee.
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after the event is over, pretty quickly people move to tumblr -- for gifs and screencaps and videos. but the immediate communality of experience is still really powerful, and so far no other platform has been able to match livejournal in that regard.
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...to be fair though, i doubt she fantasizes about fucking zayn malik with a strapon until he cries as much as i do, but who knows!
(hey, i was actually trying to come up with a list of fannish "hotspots" for something unrelated recently, and your set of poll options is the most complete that i've seen. mind if i snag it?)
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This is a very interesting poll. I miss the "old" days when everyone was in one place. I have no interest in tumblr or the other things. And I feel like AO3 lends itself less toward feedback (I've noticed this changing with Avengers fandom, though) and conversation (this hasn't changed - it's just not set up that way). Though I adore it for reading fic. And I'll post there in the future - all my fic over there now is stuff previously posted on LJ, but next time I post fic, I'll just use AO3 and announce it on LJ. Anyway, very interesting to see what people are using - I'm a lemming, really. I'll go wherever people go, if only we all went the same place.
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