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milfbrainrot · 26 days ago

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I feel like in the past the mix of this site being used for both activism and fandom helped contribute to a lot of unhinged politicized fandom discourse where yeah ofc there's a political tie to media but ppl used it as... a form of activism where it was given disproportionate importance compared to other activism discussions? Whereas now we're swinging to the opposite site of How Dare You Care About Meaningless TV Shows When Politics.

Like... we can have a mix of realizing there's more important stuff to focus on than shipping discourse in the world at large without also minimizing the insane doxxing and death threats behavior going on in fandom that people in fandom have to take into consideration to be able to do their hobby, esp given how those attitudes stem from irl political climates at times in ways that are telling to study. Hobbies are kinda how we prevent activism burnout also. Crazey how that works.

#Txt #I am also not immune to overly politicizing fandom #But also I use the site in the curated fashion one would use fandom dedicated forums in #So of course that's my focus here and ofc i process a lot here specifically thru a fandom lens #Ofc other people do too if you look at it in that way #So it's probably bizarre for ppl who do come here primarily for activism to see posts abt #fandom drama btwn posts abt the world being on fire #Ofc that contrast makes fandom stuff all look totally meaningless #when... every community has these discussions esp within curated spaces #It's not stupid to care about fandom bs that impacts me in fandom #And it is in fact weird to assume my posts here are a reflection of my understanding of the world and #a performance of everything I'm doing or not doing to help a cause #Just like someone who uses this site for activism probably has an irl club they're in #for a less stressful hobby. Or at least I hope they do #The difference is that's not under surveillance bc it's offline lol #And im sure clubs or whatever have their insane drama too that needs attention sometimes #Maybe I'm overly sensitive to these things as a person w health issues that make #my options for socializing fairly limited - so the specific brand of unhinged social shit #that happens in online fandoms does weigh more heavily for me and the tons of other ppl #like me who hang out here bc we don't have anywhere irl #But idk I don't think it needs to be an extreme case for there to be some basic understanding #of why fandom is like... important to people... and that other people on a site #where you can so easily curate ur experience are gonna be talking abt stuff #relevant to the way they've curated their experience #Barging into the crocheting subreddit like why aren't you talking about pothole maintenance in New Jersey #Ik tumblr is more mixed up but that's what this feels like sometimes #Specific spaces for specific things. What a concept.

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