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Posting into the void yet again, but I guess it's better to publicly post thoughts to a place where no one listens than just clog shit on twitter like I usually do because everyone knows my stances on X, Y, or Z there. But I guess it helps having something that doesn't have a tweet backlog limit and can support long texts with a nice timestamp on it.

It's funny how this tumblr migration seems to be a permanent one. Years ago when Yahoo bought tumblr, I remember people fleeing to other sites like Lofter and they ended up making a huge mess there with not knowing what the site was for, how it works, and well- you know, the racism. This migration seems to be the final nail and people are trying to head to Pillowfort which we all know just isn't ready to take this on and, in my opinion, it's going to take a long while for it to be a "comfy" place.

And with this migration especially with how tumblr hosted a huge community for fandoms, comes people my age group or older reminiscing about LiveJournal back in its prime and how it was known for hosting a huge community for fandom. I'm going to say this: I was never an LJ user. I was a deviantART kid. But I do remember lurking it, browsing it, reading it, etc. It was huge and almost essential back then. But what I can't really wrap my head around is former users of LJ claiming how much of a paradise it was or how much better fandom was back then. Because there was no "discourse" apparently.

Which wasn't the case?

Guys, back then, LJ had a reputation for having constant drama... you do know this right? Even when I remember how much I used to love DA back then, I always remember that it, too, always had drama. I have no idea why people keep claiming that fandom back then was a "mind your own business" sort of deal- There was always some drama concerning. People doing malicious shit. Shit talking.

The only thing that really contributed to tumblr drama seeming that much more malicious is because everything is way more connected. Take the needle cookie story (which btw a lot of people used that story, screwed up the facts, and used it against people as a trump card in arguments) that happened years ago. If that incident were to happen during the 2000s, I bet you that it would take weeks for news of it to hit English speaking sites.

But the needle cookie incident that got so much buzz back on Plurk and Weibo spread back to tumblr and twitter real fast because... everything is just more connected now.

I hope you're seeing my point? The truth is... everything has always had people shitting on each other, fighting each other, acting malicious, etc. Sure you can make an argument that it's in higher volume, but more people are using the internet.

The more I think of it, the more it seems like this is just a thinly veiled Millenials vs Gen Z sort of thing... but it's fucking internet fandom shit... lol

hi. This is for ygo shipping olympics round 4.

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