i feel like the only fandom with uh, massive, massive sway is like the star wars folks. ya'll shamed george lucas out of star wars.
imagine the scope of that shit
Even with Star Wars, I think their sway is over-estimated. Despite the louder and louder complaints and eventually pure vitriol, the prequels continued to get made. With a fandom like Star Wars, there are tons of people who are REALLY into it, but there's also a much much larger contingent that is the public consumer who does not give as much as the two farts and will see/buy it regardless. Films don't have to cater to the fandom specifically, because there's a much bigger pie to be had. Smaller niche fandoms MIGHT have a bit more sway as there is less general interest. But let's be honest, fans be damned, corporate generally does whatever they think will earn them the most money.
Real Talk, My mom got one of those boob mousepads as a joke one birthday from a friend. Well damn if that thing wasn't the perfect solution to her wrist problems, which was awesome, cept that those things wear out fairly fast, and guess who was tasked with replacing them......
They don't have mouse pads in that shape without the anime lady drawn onto it?
I looked and looked, none had that little divot in the middle. Though at least every replacement I found, had a swimsuit on, ( the original from her friend... did not)
the Transformers fandom is still big but that's because of Animated, Prime, and MTMtE actually being good and bringing in new people, moreso than sheer nostalgia for G1, at this point
In the heyday of Lord of the Rings fandom, this charismatic fan was the center of a tiny group of friends who lived together as a dysfunctional mini-cult formed around Blake's belief that he could contact and connect with spirits from alternate realities. He was a multiple, or plural--someone who believes they can channel alternate fictional personas, a bit like the practice of recalling past lives. Blake allegedly scammed his fellow fans out of thousands of dollars, and duped three Lord of the Rings actors into coming to California for a convention that never happened. Blake once again made waves in fandom by arriving on Tumblr, allegedly claiming to be "a vessel" for the Supernatural character Castiel—exactly as he did ten years ago when he channeled the spirits of Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, and other Lord of the Rings actors and characters.
I didn't even think about the intersection between "fandom" and "people who believe Ghost Hunters is real", not to mention the Internet psychics who will happily take advantage of them. The next story down is about someone who's into bestiality.
I know a lot of people who think the Internet's the greatest invention ever and let their kids have unlimited access, and you just want to, you know, shake them. Internet Safety should be taught nationally in middle school.
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In the heyday of Lord of the Rings fandom, this charismatic fan was the center of a tiny group of friends who lived together as a dysfunctional mini-cult formed around Blake's belief that he could contact and connect with spirits from alternate realities. He was a multiple, or plural--someone who believes they can channel alternate fictional personas, a bit like the practice of recalling past lives. Blake allegedly scammed his fellow fans out of thousands of dollars, and duped three Lord of the Rings actors into coming to California for a convention that never happened. Blake once again made waves in fandom by arriving on Tumblr, allegedly claiming to be "a vessel" for the Supernatural character Castiel—exactly as he did ten years ago when he channeled the spirits of Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, and other Lord of the Rings actors and characters.
I didn't even think about the intersection between "fandom" and "people who believe Ghost Hunters is real", not to mention the Internet psychics who will happily take advantage of them. The next story down is about someone who's into bestiality.
I know a lot of people who think the Internet's the greatest invention ever and let their kids have unlimited access, and you just want to, you know, shake them. Internet Safety should be taught nationally in middle school.
I knew and met not this person, but people a LOT like this who basically ran a cult. I was just to credulous to get sucked in, but only just, because I am the one of the most naive people in existence apparently. They primarily preyed upon young college students in their town. They were.. well, at the time I didn't really grasp how scary they were. It's only in retrospect that I can say that, because at the time I just thought they were kind of weird. They were otakukin, and while I don't mind otaku kin because hey, whatever gets you through your day, they managed to convince other people that they were otakukin, and also to live in their house and buy their food and pay their rent and pay their bills and in a case or two perform sexual favors, because they were the incarnations of all these things of a higher rank in the show or whatever than whatever you were. They were violent, horribly abusive, gaslighting manipulators of people, and very good at preying upon the emotional weakness of those in a strange new place like college.
I was so close... so close to being ruined by them, and at the time I didn't realize just how small a sliver of me stood between them and probably the end of my life, possibly at my own hands.. I probably would never have figured out how to escape that if I'd gotten sucked in.
And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
In the heyday of Lord of the Rings fandom, this charismatic fan was the center of a tiny group of friends who lived together as a dysfunctional mini-cult formed around Blake's belief that he could contact and connect with spirits from alternate realities. He was a multiple, or plural--someone who believes they can channel alternate fictional personas, a bit like the practice of recalling past lives. Blake allegedly scammed his fellow fans out of thousands of dollars, and duped three Lord of the Rings actors into coming to California for a convention that never happened. Blake once again made waves in fandom by arriving on Tumblr, allegedly claiming to be "a vessel" for the Supernatural character Castiel—exactly as he did ten years ago when he channeled the spirits of Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, and other Lord of the Rings actors and characters.
I didn't even think about the intersection between "fandom" and "people who believe Ghost Hunters is real", not to mention the Internet psychics who will happily take advantage of them. The next story down is about someone who's into bestiality.
I know a lot of people who think the Internet's the greatest invention ever and let their kids have unlimited access, and you just want to, you know, shake them. Internet Safety should be taught nationally in middle school.
I knew and met not this person, but people a LOT like this who basically ran a cult. I was just to credulous to get sucked in, but only just, because I am the one of the most naive people in existence apparently. They primarily preyed upon young college students in their town. They were.. well, at the time I didn't really grasp how scary they were. It's only in retrospect that I can say that, because at the time I just thought they were kind of weird. They were otakukin, and while I don't mind otaku kin because hey, whatever gets you through your day, they managed to convince other people that they were otakukin, and also to live in their house and buy their food and pay their rent and pay their bills and in a case or two perform sexual favors, because they were the incarnations of all these things of a higher rank in the show or whatever than whatever you were. They were violent, horribly abusive, gaslighting manipulators of people, and very good at preying upon the emotional weakness of those in a strange new place like college.
I was so close... so close to being ruined by them, and at the time I didn't realize just how small a sliver of me stood between them and probably the end of my life, possibly at my own hands.. I probably would never have figured out how to escape that if I'd gotten sucked in.
I feel like I've read a story like this before
Wasn't a very similar one circulating about.... what, 12, 15 years back? Where the otakukin in question was Jenova or somehting?
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I knew and met not this person, but people a LOT like this who basically ran a cult. I was just to credulous to get sucked in, but only just, because I am the one of the most naive people in existence apparently. They primarily preyed upon young college students in their town. They were.. well, at the time I didn't really grasp how scary they were. It's only in retrospect that I can say that, because at the time I just thought they were kind of weird. They were otakukin, and while I don't mind otaku kin because hey, whatever gets you through your day, they managed to convince other people that they were otakukin, and also to live in their house and buy their food and pay their rent and pay their bills and in a case or two perform sexual favors, because they were the incarnations of all these things of a higher rank in the show or whatever than whatever you were. They were violent, horribly abusive, gaslighting manipulators of people, and very good at preying upon the emotional weakness of those in a strange new place like college.
I was so close... so close to being ruined by them, and at the time I didn't realize just how small a sliver of me stood between them and probably the end of my life, possibly at my own hands.. I probably would never have figured out how to escape that if I'd gotten sucked in.
Ugh I can't even imagine this. Running a cult should be a crime (like it is in France) but it isn't, thanks to Scientology lawyers (and the ACLU, who seem to get off on picking the worst people to represent).
I knew and met not this person, but people a LOT like this who basically ran a cult. I was just to credulous to get sucked in, but only just, because I am the one of the most naive people in existence apparently. They primarily preyed upon young college students in their town. They were.. well, at the time I didn't really grasp how scary they were. It's only in retrospect that I can say that, because at the time I just thought they were kind of weird. They were otakukin, and while I don't mind otaku kin because hey, whatever gets you through your day, they managed to convince other people that they were otakukin, and also to live in their house and buy their food and pay their rent and pay their bills and in a case or two perform sexual favors, because they were the incarnations of all these things of a higher rank in the show or whatever than whatever you were. They were violent, horribly abusive, gaslighting manipulators of people, and very good at preying upon the emotional weakness of those in a strange new place like college.
I was so close... so close to being ruined by them, and at the time I didn't realize just how small a sliver of me stood between them and probably the end of my life, possibly at my own hands.. I probably would never have figured out how to escape that if I'd gotten sucked in.
Ugh I can't even imagine this. Running a cult should be a crime (like it is in France) but it isn't, thanks to Scientology lawyers (and the ACLU, who seem to get off on picking the worst people to represent).
with the ACLU it's more like, they're so Lawful Neutral in their mission that they'll do askew stuff to get it done
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In the heyday of Lord of the Rings fandom, this charismatic fan was the center of a tiny group of friends who lived together as a dysfunctional mini-cult formed around Blake's belief that he could contact and connect with spirits from alternate realities. He was a multiple, or plural--someone who believes they can channel alternate fictional personas, a bit like the practice of recalling past lives. Blake allegedly scammed his fellow fans out of thousands of dollars, and duped three Lord of the Rings actors into coming to California for a convention that never happened. Blake once again made waves in fandom by arriving on Tumblr, allegedly claiming to be "a vessel" for the Supernatural character Castiel—exactly as he did ten years ago when he channeled the spirits of Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, and other Lord of the Rings actors and characters.
I didn't even think about the intersection between "fandom" and "people who believe Ghost Hunters is real", not to mention the Internet psychics who will happily take advantage of them. The next story down is about someone who's into bestiality.
I know a lot of people who think the Internet's the greatest invention ever and let their kids have unlimited access, and you just want to, you know, shake them. Internet Safety should be taught nationally in middle school.
I knew and met not this person, but people a LOT like this who basically ran a cult. I was just to credulous to get sucked in, but only just, because I am the one of the most naive people in existence apparently. They primarily preyed upon young college students in their town. They were.. well, at the time I didn't really grasp how scary they were. It's only in retrospect that I can say that, because at the time I just thought they were kind of weird. They were otakukin, and while I don't mind otaku kin because hey, whatever gets you through your day, they managed to convince other people that they were otakukin, and also to live in their house and buy their food and pay their rent and pay their bills and in a case or two perform sexual favors, because they were the incarnations of all these things of a higher rank in the show or whatever than whatever you were. They were violent, horribly abusive, gaslighting manipulators of people, and very good at preying upon the emotional weakness of those in a strange new place like college.
I was so close... so close to being ruined by them, and at the time I didn't realize just how small a sliver of me stood between them and probably the end of my life, possibly at my own hands.. I probably would never have figured out how to escape that if I'd gotten sucked in.
I feel like I've read a story like this before
Wasn't a very similar one circulating about.... what, 12, 15 years back? Where the otakukin in question was Jenova or somehting?
That's them. She was the leader, more or less. I went to their house to visit them, actually, because I had made friends with someone there. While I was visiting I made friends with one of the people they'd adopted who'd been around for a while.. someone who had been legitimately diagnosed with Dissociative Disorder. I thought she was really cool, and ended up friending her. I'd watch her updates even as I lost touch with the others.. a few years later I read the story of what she actually endured there and it was terrifying.
I had visited there for a weekend. I drove around with them while they fought monsters. They asked me to come back on a longer term basis to see if I'd work out but I had two jobs and that was barely enough, so I couldn't really consider it. I ended up not going back, but I know they drove more than one person to a psychotic break.
And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
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This was the girl I was friends with. She was already dancing by the time I met them, but I went shopping with her and she was just so genuinely lovely to talk to. I lost touch with her years ago, unfortunately, shortly before this communication was compiled. A lot of the info is there.
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And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
I'm trying to think of pre-tumblr rapid/memetic type fandoms and as far as I can think of, the really big examples are:
Fushigi Yuugi/Inuyasha/(put shipping-popular anime flavor of the year here) anime fangirls, which is almost certainly the direct ancestor to tumblr fan culture. It was just on Gaia, DeviantArt, and LiveJournal in the 2000s
Sonic fans
The furry fandom (tumblr isn't quite as huge of a fur haven as you'd think because there's still such a huge chunk of them that use FurAffinity)
The occasional other odd forum bubbles where that pattern of closed circle, infinite feedback loop arose on its own, like that weird Russian rescue rangers cult
X-Files.
We had e-mail lists and entire 90s websites devoted to just about everything you could under that umbrella. And yes, that included some shippers that wanted David and Gillian to hook up.
the room is great and the whole thing with special room memes and plastic spoons is also great
Not when you can't even hear any of the terrible lines because everyone is screaming the line over the actor.
They're funny to read, but enormously irritating and sad to sit in a theater with.
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The -kin suffix usually indicates people who believed they were something in a past life. For example, dragonkin. I know a couple of these, pretty cool people. Otakukin are people who believe they were an anime or manga character.
Which again, I have no problem with. I believe all kinds of crazy ass things I have no evidence of, and I certainly have no room to judge, nor am I interested in doing so.
But every so often you get people who know how to use the group-think a fandom can encourage to be terrible, and on the more extreme end you get people like I mentioned above. I met at LEAST two, maybe more, of the people who have testimonials on the site I linked.
And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
I've been on the internet unsupervised since I was about 10 or so (21 now) and the worst thing I got exposed to was Monster Vagina and meatspindotcom thanks to people I raided with
also lots of sex talk that ended up being rather tame compared to now
I heard my cousin who is about 10 or so, maybe younger, playing LoL and I just want to shake his parents and yell no constantly at them
shit can be terrible for young kids
also fandoms are all weird which is why i actively avoid getting into group-like stuff based around somethin i like
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Oghulk every time I see your name I read 'oglaf' first and then have to think 'wait no'
And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
Firefly got a lot less appealing when I realized that Jayne is essentially Adam Baldwin
no, not ACTED BY
IS
I know dubh knows this but it bears repeating as often as possible that adam baldwin is a genuinely terrible excuse for a human being
adam baldwin is a genuinely terrible excuse for a human being
adam baldwin is a genuinely terrible excuse for a human being
adam baldwin is a genuinely terrible excuse for a human being
adam baldwin is a genuinely terrible excuse for a human being
adam baldwin is a genuinely terrible excuse for a human being
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Just get Adam Baldwins Halo characters killed over and over again.
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I was going to make a joke about what this could be, but I wanted to google it to see what it actually is.
And it is actually the thing I was going to joke about it being.
Even with Star Wars, I think their sway is over-estimated. Despite the louder and louder complaints and eventually pure vitriol, the prequels continued to get made. With a fandom like Star Wars, there are tons of people who are REALLY into it, but there's also a much much larger contingent that is the public consumer who does not give as much as the two farts and will see/buy it regardless. Films don't have to cater to the fandom specifically, because there's a much bigger pie to be had. Smaller niche fandoms MIGHT have a bit more sway as there is less general interest. But let's be honest, fans be damned, corporate generally does whatever they think will earn them the most money.
Its genuinely extremely good
Real Talk, My mom got one of those boob mousepads as a joke one birthday from a friend. Well damn if that thing wasn't the perfect solution to her wrist problems, which was awesome, cept that those things wear out fairly fast, and guess who was tasked with replacing them......
you're getting them for your mom
And this is exactly why is was so much fun to replace it 6 times over the years.
Also fun, having to use the phrase " No the one with boobs" when looking for a mousepad
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I looked and looked, none had that little divot in the middle. Though at least every replacement I found, had a swimsuit on, ( the original from her friend... did not)
It was tons of fun shooting the shit and coming up with batshit insane theories with people online
Uh-oh I accidentally deleted my signature. Uh-oh!!
Some of the plots are really good!
fuck, i guess im a member of The Yaoi Fandom
I know dubh knows this but it bears repeating as often as possible that adam baldwin is a genuinely terrible excuse for a human being
I didn't even think about the intersection between "fandom" and "people who believe Ghost Hunters is real", not to mention the Internet psychics who will happily take advantage of them. The next story down is about someone who's into bestiality.
I know a lot of people who think the Internet's the greatest invention ever and let their kids have unlimited access, and you just want to, you know, shake them. Internet Safety should be taught nationally in middle school.
yeah, gonna be a lot of plant OC's
God Damn
I knew and met not this person, but people a LOT like this who basically ran a cult. I was just to credulous to get sucked in, but only just, because I am the one of the most naive people in existence apparently. They primarily preyed upon young college students in their town. They were.. well, at the time I didn't really grasp how scary they were. It's only in retrospect that I can say that, because at the time I just thought they were kind of weird. They were otakukin, and while I don't mind otaku kin because hey, whatever gets you through your day, they managed to convince other people that they were otakukin, and also to live in their house and buy their food and pay their rent and pay their bills and in a case or two perform sexual favors, because they were the incarnations of all these things of a higher rank in the show or whatever than whatever you were. They were violent, horribly abusive, gaslighting manipulators of people, and very good at preying upon the emotional weakness of those in a strange new place like college.
I was so close... so close to being ruined by them, and at the time I didn't realize just how small a sliver of me stood between them and probably the end of my life, possibly at my own hands.. I probably would never have figured out how to escape that if I'd gotten sucked in.
I feel like I've read a story like this before
Wasn't a very similar one circulating about.... what, 12, 15 years back? Where the otakukin in question was Jenova or somehting?
Ugh I can't even imagine this. Running a cult should be a crime (like it is in France) but it isn't, thanks to Scientology lawyers (and the ACLU, who seem to get off on picking the worst people to represent).
with the ACLU it's more like, they're so Lawful Neutral in their mission that they'll do askew stuff to get it done
That's them. She was the leader, more or less. I went to their house to visit them, actually, because I had made friends with someone there. While I was visiting I made friends with one of the people they'd adopted who'd been around for a while.. someone who had been legitimately diagnosed with Dissociative Disorder. I thought she was really cool, and ended up friending her. I'd watch her updates even as I lost touch with the others.. a few years later I read the story of what she actually endured there and it was terrifying.
I had visited there for a weekend. I drove around with them while they fought monsters. They asked me to come back on a longer term basis to see if I'd work out but I had two jobs and that was barely enough, so I couldn't really consider it. I ended up not going back, but I know they drove more than one person to a psychotic break.
Small world
Small, terrifying, awful world
This was the girl I was friends with. She was already dancing by the time I met them, but I went shopping with her and she was just so genuinely lovely to talk to. I lost touch with her years ago, unfortunately, shortly before this communication was compiled. A lot of the info is there.
We had e-mail lists and entire 90s websites devoted to just about everything you could under that umbrella. And yes, that included some shippers that wanted David and Gillian to hook up.
How so?
Not when you can't even hear any of the terrible lines because everyone is screaming the line over the actor.
They're funny to read, but enormously irritating and sad to sit in a theater with.
The -kin suffix usually indicates people who believed they were something in a past life. For example, dragonkin. I know a couple of these, pretty cool people. Otakukin are people who believe they were an anime or manga character.
Which again, I have no problem with. I believe all kinds of crazy ass things I have no evidence of, and I certainly have no room to judge, nor am I interested in doing so.
But every so often you get people who know how to use the group-think a fandom can encourage to be terrible, and on the more extreme end you get people like I mentioned above. I met at LEAST two, maybe more, of the people who have testimonials on the site I linked.
he's one of the primary "activists" (read: literal monsters) behind gamergate, among other "accomplishments"
Class dismissed.
also lots of sex talk that ended up being rather tame compared to now
I heard my cousin who is about 10 or so, maybe younger, playing LoL and I just want to shake his parents and yell no constantly at them
shit can be terrible for young kids
also fandoms are all weird which is why i actively avoid getting into group-like stuff based around somethin i like
adam baldwin is a genuinely terrible excuse for a human being
adam baldwin is a genuinely terrible excuse for a human being
adam baldwin is a genuinely terrible excuse for a human being
adam baldwin is a genuinely terrible excuse for a human being
adam baldwin is a genuinely terrible excuse for a human being
So... Day of the Triffids fandom?
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