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#3 - Happy Halloween!

Oct 28, 2010 00:41

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Fandom population poll anonymous October 28 2010, 06:18:46 UTC

Do you feel like the fandom has lost a significant amount of people due to flouncing/new fandoms (such as Sherlock)? Or do you think people who complain about that are overreacting?

Re: Fandom population poll anonymous October 28 2010, 07:24:39 UTC

DA Emo porn?

Re: Fandom population poll anonymous October 28 2010, 07:27:36 UTC

I don't think SPN has a monopoly on emo!porn. Though I do love it :)

Re: Fandom population poll anonymous October 28 2010, 07:45:43 UTC

True. But I'd say that SPN has a distinct style of emo!porn. Ah the combined powers of puppy eyes of doom and the single perfect tear. ;D

Re: Fandom population poll anonymous October 28 2010, 07:18:48 UTC

I really have no clue about this because I hang out pretty much only with a handful of people I adore, and mostly read fics by them or recced by them. Occasionally I'd NOT scroll by SOR and c_i, and I do have a few favorite authors... but overall, my friends are my fandom. If I find new people to squee about, it's usually old friends of friends. And we have enough enthusiasm for the show between us that I don't really care if fandom is burning around me.

Re: Fandom population poll anonymous October 28 2010, 12:35:57 UTC

The number of Dean!girls went down drastically over the summer, but I think some of them are starting to creep back now that we're several episodes into the new season and it's generally been good to us. There are one or two that I wish would actually just leave though. I'm sick of the complaints.

I've heard that several Sam!girls have left too, but I haven't actually seen any evidence of that.

Re: Fandom population poll anonymous October 28 2010, 12:54:27 UTC

I can't answer your question directly but I'm a newbie who caught up to all five seasons over the summer before coming online to check out the fandom. I was a Lost fan and that show pretty much took up all my tv fan related headspace for a while. When it was over, I caught up on Supernatural and Fringe and Supernatural was the one that hit on more of my fandom kinks. Since I'm sure I'm not alone, there's at least a little new blood to balance out people who have left.

I was sort of half-assedly involved in the Merlin fandom for a little while and it seems to me that there's been a lot of people leaving for Inception lately and Merlin's just in its third season. So, yeah, a lot of it is just that SPN is an aging show now and people are going to move on. There's still a very impressive amount of online obsessives, though.

Re: Fandom population poll anonymous October 28 2010, 13:00:11 UTC

da

I think the Inception thing is just a temporary fling and won't last. People are playing around with it now but movie fandoms seldom live long lives. LotR is the only exception I can think of, but that had the books first and it was a trilogy spaced out over years, so it allowed a fandom to build up and take root.

I agree that there does seem to be a new wave of fans, though. It's kind of nice seeing the fresh blood!

Re: Fandom population poll anonymous October 28 2010, 19:14:24 UTC

movie fandoms seldom live long lives. LotR is the only exception I can think of,

Ummm, TPM anyone? Q/O ate the fannish world for a number of years, and new stuff is still produced.

Re: Fandom population poll anonymous October 28 2010, 19:16:05 UTC

Pffft, original trilogy is where it's at!

But seriously, Star Wars doesn't count either. There's a canon going back over 30 years, there are games, books, and movies, a TV show tie in and so on and so on. Star Wars has radio dramas.

Single movie fandoms tend to die out. Inception won't be any different.

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