katikat: (beach)
don't be dull, be fannish ([personal profile] katikat) wrote2010-09-20 10:14 am

Musings on fandom in general

In 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.
klingonpoo: (Default)

[personal profile] klingonpoo 2010-09-21 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
It is depressing to watch that happen. There is nothing wrong with being a fandom lurker.