The thing that always makes me feel OLD is when fandom specifically attributes some behavior or concept or misbehavior specifically to Tumblr Fandom and I’m like hey no, trust me, we were doing/talking/writing about/pr0ning about it way back in the old country when we sent binary smoke signals into the sky.
That’s WHY you sometimes run into incomprehensible warnings or weirdly prescient guesses about possible fandom behavior (Especially bad behavior). It’s because there’s a chunk of people who were around before tumblr and we’ve seen it before. Yeah it doesn’t always work out exactly the same, but let me tell you, the patterns repeat. All the time.
It’s also why a lot of older people will nope on out of certain things, like, HAHAHA I CAN TELL THAT WILL BE A BED OF GIANT WANK! I’m just going to be over here!
Now I’m trying to remember when I posted my first story to USENET. I mean, ‘zine fans, now that’s OLD, but I think I’ve now been in online fandom 20 years.
1995.
I HAVE been in online fandom for 20 years. And let me tell you; this has all happened before and it will all happen again.
16 years, and yep. Yep. Yep.
32 years in organized media fandom (bought my first zine in 1983 at Boskone); 28 of those years also online.
Yup.
I looked at the likes and laughed—HAI ALL YOU GUYS. LOLOL. *waves* It’s like my fucking class picture down in there. :D
17 years. My oldest, most embarrassing message board posts can vote soon. I have literally been in fandom for more years than I haven’t– I was 12 the year I started watching Buffy.
i entered fandom in november 1996, when i watched “star trek: first contact.” i was twelve. i’ve been doing this for over eighteen years. i have seen empires rise and fall