#like talk about how streaming has destroyed careers not fandoms cuz babe you just ain’t in the right ones

[murdertrashbabyrat]

Look there’s truth to parts of this but I’ve had a completely different experience so I’d hesitate to label it a “causality” for everyone like fandom tumblr isn’t alive and well?! (‘Sometimes I can still hear their voice’ ‘stop telling everyone I’m dead’) I encourage you to find new fandoms and new creators because I’m neck deep in this shit fam. You might be moving on but I’m out here in the trenches with the other people that don’t stop loving what they love and showing it to everyone year after year with no pause. My tumblr experience hasn’t changed in ten years because I follow people who love things and love them hard. Fandom culture is very much alive and well on here even if it doesn’t seem like it to you and I’m sorry that you’re not seeing it in whatever you have interest in.

Besides from my view we can hate one way without worshipping the other just to be in opposition. Streaming services suck for a lot of reasons. That’s a fact. But also “real television” or cable being the only way to watch our favorite shows actually made it harder for a lot of us because the episodes came out at specific times, someone else was using the tv, you missed the first five minutes and now nothing makes sense, etc. Each episode was chocked with ads and MOST importantly, a large chunk of tv was written with the sole intention of bringing you back the next week rather than making any damn sense. Also you constantly feel behind and like you can’t speak to people about it until you see the episode which you might not have time for which is a way worse feeling to have every single week as opposed to a few a season.

To be clear I truly think they both have their pros and cons I just don’t get this idea of worshipping ye olden times like boomers (what like ten years ago lmao Jesus Christ) and calling it “real tv” (omg just realized that sounds like the Watcher tv drama recently lmao) when there were so many problems y’all used to complain about with that too.

It’s okay that it all just sucks because every last piece of it is sadly driven by money(no offense to the artists themselves tbh I’m thinking of the studios). I think it’s just going to keep you down if you insist EVERYTHING is worse fandom tumblr is totally dead and then also straight up disrespect the art that’s being produced on streaming.

I DO think they could fix this problem by just releasing the show episode by episode on their own site goddamn but like sorry I’m not still jerking off to long ass seasons with convoluted plots that are half finished so they can get it on network television fast enough?? Sorry I’d rather see shorter pieces of art then to see someone dragging a dead horse of a show behind them for fifteen seasons and I’ve gotta watch like I’m in a horror movie as it transforms into something boring and deeply repetitive like sorry I’m not still part of the Supernatural fandom let me get right on that I only burned out after ten seasons bet I can watch FIVE MORE of “real television” like are you kidding literally kill me. (To be clear this isn’t even shade on spn it’s just gods perfect example)

A lot of us don’t or can’t commit to long ass fandoms with long ass shows that doesn’t mean we don’t enjoy the same level and quality of fandom engagement this just all feels very nostalgia heavy rather than let’s really sit and consider if this is worse or simply just as bad but different as most things presented by rich people for profit are throughout history.

fandom tumblr was another casualty of streaming services. we used to be on here posting about the episodes that were coming out weekly and posting gifs and writing insane shit about the tv shows we liked. now a new season of a show will drop and we’ll talk about it for a week. two weeks tops. and then that show will leave collectively conscious for 1+ year till the next season drops. there’s a reason succession sundays was a blast on here

we used to have real television