#qaf fandom RISE

[brian-kinney-apologist]

Dearest BK apologist, is a pleasure for me to go back (way back!) in time to a magical period called The 00s. To be more precise, 2000-2001. Back in those days we only had the Showtime Queer As Folk list to discuss qaf, we had to wait a little to get some more user friendly experience: the Showtime Yahoo Group. The fandom was fierce in those days, I can't say I was the fiercest (I'm Justin's age, so back then I was really young) but I was part of it and had the displeasure to meet The Hal's Angels.

They were mostly active in the Yahoo group, they watched the show basically because they were Hal's fans from The Talk Soup and expected (demanded) Hal to be the protagonist in qafus. The disappointment they felt when they realised that the main character was Brian and the main ship was Britin soon turned into rage. They hated Justin and insulted Randy, hated Britin shippers and for a brief moment even joined forces with people who came from the qafUK fandom and were Stuart/Vince shippers. This lasted for almost three years. By S3 we all laughed but the level of personal insults that Randy and Gale received from that group hasn't been forgotten or forgiven.

Thank you for keeping the thumpa-thumpa alive, apologist ✨! If there's anyone who watched the show in the 00s and was part of the fandom then please say hello and share your experience.

I looove getting more information about fandom lore from the original fans because imo there's nothing like experiencing tv shows/fandom (drama lol) as it airs!!!! as I said somwhere before I first watched qaf in 2014 so I did manage to experience qaf fandom when it was quite active and I did go into a rabbit hole a couple of times reading older interviews/posts all over the internet but this is CRAZY, like I totally understand having preferences but harassing other people over a tv show is honestly pathetic, I will never get it 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

gale and randy for real deserve financial compensations AND free therapy sessions for the rest of their lives for what the show/interviewers/fans put them through

thank you for sharing this info with us, younger/newer part of the fandom 💜💜💜

[brian-kinney-apologist]

Your username!!! Who remembers Brian Kinney in the year of our Lord 2k24?! Omg, I love you for it!

well contrary to popular believe there're still people who are interested in qaf and create some type of content for it 😅😅 (yes the fandom is small but we are still here!!! (I've more qaf related things on my other account AND I want to post more about it here too but iwtv has a chockehold on me atm lol)) (also everyone who still remembers about qaf is automatically my friend so 🫂 @ you)