Not People Saying Fandom Has Always Been Like This In That Vent Post I Made. No. It Hasnt Always Been

Not people saying “Fandom has always been like this” in that vent post I made. No. It hasn’t always been like this. Fandom has NEVER been like this until recently and if you were in fandom pre-tumblr purge, pre-twitter, pre-netflix boom, pre-tiktok….then you would fucking know it was nothing like this.

We still had the drive to create. We still sold prints and charms and made zines…but it was never like this.

The introduction of streaming, binge shows that drop all at once, tiktok and vine RIP i still love u vine but you were the beginning of a particularly ugly era) creating this bite sized, quick paced ‘content’ era of creation and it bled out into fucking everything else.

Fandoms didn’t die down when the show ended or the season was over. You didn’t mass unfollow artist, writers or moots just because they changed fandoms. There wasn’t this need to please the algorithm in order for your posts to get seen by people and enjoyed.

Fandoms used to last YEARS. Star Trek is literally the oldest running fandom out there and you got people in there that could care less about the new stuff and still have been happily prancing through their fucking fifty year old fandom today. Hell, even SPN after all it’s fuckups and shitshows has a dedicated fanbase STILL creating tons of art and fic.

There is no patience anymore. No calm feeling of taking in fandom and friends at a pace that which doesn’t make you stressed and is still fun.

Do I blame fandom for this? Of course not, but people are complacent with it and start changing their vocab to accommodate and end up making the situation so deep it cant be fixed.

We call Art & Fic Content now, completely stripping the value of what it is to a level of consumerism instead of personal entertainment & community bonding.

The sillies

There's nothing like waiting a month to get my broken drawing IPad fixed only for the people I sent it to to go "Oh wopsie daisy! Looks like we forgot about this! Now you have to pay us 600$ cause we've had it for a month and another 200$ once we actually fix it! Which will take another month!"

i don't think they realized just how earth shattering this would've been

60S WIVES ? ! ? YOUVE GOTTA BE KIDDING ME ? ! ? 2 OF MY FAVORITE THINGS. WOMEN. AND 60S/70S FASHION ? ? ? I WOULDVE EXPLODED ON THE SPOT

EVEN THE HYPOTHETICAL GOT ME TURNING INTO POP ROCKS

Hunter is willing to do anything for his Diamond.

He went through some design changes, but I finally made some recent art of my toh steven universe au.

I’M BACK BABY >:DD

Apparently my iPad just had some junk stuck where the charging port was so I didn’t have to pay $600 to get it fixed, huzzah!

Now I will be posting all the stuff I was going to before my iPad decided to stop working lol. So have a good ‘ol annoyed human! Wally