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There's no such thing as a "fandom". - TimeLierG - 01-02-2025
This is a word that did not truly exist until around 2014-2016, when the internet started to become more uniform and soulless, no longer were communities for games or other hobbies considered "communities", they turned into the singular word, "fandom" as if there's not countless forums or discussions for one particular game anymore, just a giant cesspool of sludge. Do you remember all of the RuneScape forums from back in the day? All of them with their own rules and own communities, too bad now it's one big "fandom" dumpster that is easily manipulated by specific political ideologies. Have you heard some say, "you can't be X and be Y, your views contradict" - this is an illness brought on by the modern internet. American politics and ideology infesting the net was the worst thing to have occurred, it introduced everyone to the internet, and by everyone I mean everyone.
I know I most likely made a post about this before but every day I grow more and more tired of seeing this specific word / phrase being used, forums must come back for the internet to heal, the bigger the net is the more unique it is, those who do not belong on the internet will mostly remain on "safe sites" and those can continue to fester while everyone on the real internet, thousands of different sites and forums can exist in peace and gatekeep properly. Right now were sharing the same 1-5 sites with EVERYONE, we need to go our own ways and not be trapped in an endless uniform loop where nothing progresses, where everything is political because these 1-5 sites most of everyone uses are an amalgamation under the term "social media".