Musings on fandom in general
Sep. 20th, 2010 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katikatIn every fandom, there's a handful of "fans" who feel the need to police the day-to-day activities of other fans. They just burn with the need to tell you how inappropriate or confusing your post in a comm is, to mold you according to their idea of a proper fan. AND I HATE THOSE PEOPLE TO PIECES!
The White Collar fandom is still in its diapers, barely a year old, and these people already took a hold of it too. They feel the need to point out every plot hole and correct the writers or Jeff Eastin himself - remember the Haversham vs. Havisham thing? a certain fan calling Jeff Eastin a poop-head? - stomping all over other people's opinions and naming themselves the self-appointed fandom leaders. It's really disappointing to watch, to bear witness to someone building an elite circle of "fans" - I have never seen it happening, I always arrived "too late" in a fandom, be it Supernatural or SGA, to see the "work in progress." What a depressing thing to watch.
I think I'll stay a proud "fandom lurker," thank you very much.
The White Collar fandom is still in its diapers, barely a year old, and these people already took a hold of it too. They feel the need to point out every plot hole and correct the writers or Jeff Eastin himself - remember the Haversham vs. Havisham thing? a certain fan calling Jeff Eastin a poop-head? - stomping all over other people's opinions and naming themselves the self-appointed fandom leaders. It's really disappointing to watch, to bear witness to someone building an elite circle of "fans" - I have never seen it happening, I always arrived "too late" in a fandom, be it Supernatural or SGA, to see the "work in progress." What a depressing thing to watch.
I think I'll stay a proud "fandom lurker," thank you very much.
