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rogueslayer452Taken from this fandom meme:
What's the longest time you've been in a fandom. Not necessarily your oldest fandom, but a fandom that you started and still continue to read/write/create content for in some way.
Honestly, it would probably have to be Harry Potter. I got into it during high school, started from seeing the first movie that had just came out to buy/rent and I hadn't known anything about the books until then, but once seeing the first movie I was curious and ended up reading the books and it just bloomed from there. From reading the books to going online and finding the fandom to being excited about the movies coming out, Harry Potter was honestly one of the biggest fandoms I joined and the longest I've ever been in fandom for. Even now, while I've gone and gotten myself into other fandoms along the way and despite everything that has been revealed about the author over the years especially recently, I'm still kind of in the HP fandom. It was a massive influential factor in my life, in more ways than one, and I'm still a part of it. I still read fanfic, I love a lot of the fanart and the gifsets and discussions that come from the fandom still.
What's a fandom that you wish had a bigger following?
The Expanse. I know the show has gained more attention over the last couple of years thanks to the fan campaign to save the show and getting more people to notice and start watching it, but I do wish there was a bigger online fandom presence. Unfortunately, this is what happens when it comes to science fiction shows that aren't Star Wars or Star Trek related, they tend to be very niche and very much under the radar. Someone pointed out that it probably won't be until after the show ends that people will finally end up hopping onto it and going, "omg why didn't anyone tell me about this show??" Which, y'know, fair enough, better late than never and I've done the same thing with shows that I've gotten into that people told me about that ended some while ago. But still, I do wish there was more fan engagement.
What's the longest time you've been in a fandom. Not necessarily your oldest fandom, but a fandom that you started and still continue to read/write/create content for in some way.
Honestly, it would probably have to be Harry Potter. I got into it during high school, started from seeing the first movie that had just came out to buy/rent and I hadn't known anything about the books until then, but once seeing the first movie I was curious and ended up reading the books and it just bloomed from there. From reading the books to going online and finding the fandom to being excited about the movies coming out, Harry Potter was honestly one of the biggest fandoms I joined and the longest I've ever been in fandom for. Even now, while I've gone and gotten myself into other fandoms along the way and despite everything that has been revealed about the author over the years especially recently, I'm still kind of in the HP fandom. It was a massive influential factor in my life, in more ways than one, and I'm still a part of it. I still read fanfic, I love a lot of the fanart and the gifsets and discussions that come from the fandom still.
What's a fandom that you wish had a bigger following?
The Expanse. I know the show has gained more attention over the last couple of years thanks to the fan campaign to save the show and getting more people to notice and start watching it, but I do wish there was a bigger online fandom presence. Unfortunately, this is what happens when it comes to science fiction shows that aren't Star Wars or Star Trek related, they tend to be very niche and very much under the radar. Someone pointed out that it probably won't be until after the show ends that people will finally end up hopping onto it and going, "omg why didn't anyone tell me about this show??" Which, y'know, fair enough, better late than never and I've done the same thing with shows that I've gotten into that people told me about that ended some while ago. But still, I do wish there was more fan engagement.
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Date: 2021-06-13 05:56 pm (UTC)I think some people tend to forget that this was some people's childhoods, so there's a level of nostalgia for them. And while it wasn't necessarily my childhood (more like, my teenage years), it meant a lot to me and I, along with so many, kind of grew up with it. And it's not like most of the fandom hasn't been critical of the series, because I've seen the shift over the years from people talking about headcanons and other ideas of that nature to discussing more serious topics of the fucked up things in the series, especially in regards to JKR and the influences of her writing. It's not like most fans blindly think that HP can do no wrong, there's been a lot of very in-depth conversations, from changing of perspectives, to us having grown up with the series, etc.
So for non-fans or casual fans, on the surface level it may seem silly to still be interested in the series, but it's rather hypocritical to judge people who still enjoy the series and are still fannish over it when, as you said, other people get really hyped into things like sport events and the like. I don't understand it, but I don't berate them for enjoying it if that's what they like. So why is HP (and similar kinds of fiction) viewed as different? Because it's deemed "for kids" and therefore immature? idk
I used to LOVE browsing fanart! For whatever reason, I lost interest in that. But I loved it almost as much as fanfic.
idk where the majority of the fanart community is anymore, honestly. Tumblr was a biggest place to find fanart, but after their "porn ban" (that didn't really ban porn) it erased a lot of the fanart blogs there, and made even the existing fanartists there discouraged from posting. I guess Twitter could be a place, but it's next to impossible to find anything on there. It's really sad.
But yeah, I enjoy the fanart whenever I see it. And I loved visiting individual artists websites that hosted their artwork back in the day.