Original Male Earworm - FFA Post #192
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Interesting. Two things that stick out at me, though. One, something about this rings true, but for larger fandoms. Is this necessarily true for smaller ones, where shipping is a bit less like something out of The Highlander?
Two, the race issue. I can see some of the US's racial politics rubbing off on people from other countries through fandom, but wouldn't class effect them in the same way?
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Class is rarely relevant in American TV land, and there's no particular social issues around people of different income backgrounds dating. There are sometimes interpersonal issues about money particular to that relationship, but if you/your parents make $40,000 and you/your partner's parents make $400,000, that's not a big deal in and of itself, nor is it a "you can tell by looking" situation the way interracial dating is.
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Same for older fandoms. People still have pairings they HATE to pieces, of course. But there seems to be less willingness to die on that hill. The one time I saw someone trying to do that - whip people up into a shipping frenzy, get people really into her character interpretations - with my small on LJ, mostly dead fandom, it was pretty bizarre.
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I'm also coming at this from the assumption that the average fan has multiple fandoms. I think the fan that stays dedicated to a single fandom and does not branch out in any meaningful way is an exception to the rule, and has a much weaker effect on fandom in general hitting that critical mass that is required for trends to become established in any meaningful way.
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Totally agreed on your last paragraph as the reason behind this phenomenon, with the cookie-cutter metaphor.
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I think that it is dangerous to refer to "fandom" in general but when we're talking about particular trends then yes, what is in play here is homogenization. There are certain barriers to cross pollination (slash vs het, female vs male centric fandom spaces) but within large categories of fandom homogenization is the rule imo.
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