Notices by Weeble (weeble@bungle.online), page 3

@lunarised@whinge.town @ainmosni@berlin.social You could argue fedi itself is an echo chamber of tech nerds and ppl too weird for typical social media

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This is where I stream from btw

Theres even less women in this programming class than the web dev one

@sun@shitposter.world @Alex@boymilk.cafe THIS DOESN'T MEAN DEATH OF CANON IT JUST MEANS THAT AUTHOR INTERPETATION OF CANON HOLDS AS MUCH VALUE AS THE AUDIENCE'S.

@sun@shitposter.world @Alex@boymilk.cafe @Yaldabaoth@shitposter.world

"Also when I talk about "being a fan" or "being in a fandom" I mean in the sense of actively interacting with other fans and seeking out fanworks."

You can just like something or have a passing interest but that's not what I'm talking about in this thread.

@Alex@boymilk.cafe >Real pokeslop enjoyers shouldn't actually enjoy pokeslop.

Bruh just say you don't actually like it. At least Overwatch players are honest and say it sucks while playing.

@Alex@boymilk.cafe Exactly! Being a pokemon fan means eating shit with a smile or whining about when it used to be totally cool and before your parents divorced. Anything less isn't a pokemon fan

@Alex@boymilk.cafe I'm not saying you cant enjoy fanworks but the point of the OP of this whole thread is that there's a growing number of ppl who call themselves fans without ever actually engaging with the things their fans if.

If your only frame of reference is through fanworks and if the only way you can tolerate a franchise is through fanworks then you probably weren't a fan to begin with.

@Yaldabaoth@shitposter.world @Alex@boymilk.cafe Sonic fans are another group I see take copium on the daily. I can never understand the desire to cling to a franchise with as much as Sonic fans do, but nostalgia and autism are just one hell of a drug.

If something I like has shat the bed I just leave the fandom, pretend the creator died, and look back on the good part with rose-tinted glasses while actively memory-holing everything else.

Also when I talk about "being a fan" or "being in a fandom" I mean in the sense of actively interacting with other fans and seeking out fanworks.

This is 90% of my Internet usage and I'm frankly sick of all the "newfags shitting up my board" and just want to go to when I could talk about shows without some tiktok kid complaining how it's elitist to expect anime fans to watch anime.

@lunarised@whinge.town Get 1 million cancers

The lyrics of every country song

@sarvo@novoa.nagoya @meso@the.asbestos.cafe It's literally a testosterone boost bro. Its bulking

@waifu@mai.waifuism.life @sarvo@novoa.nagoya @meso@the.asbestos.cafe Yes I can bench 4 plates and I've had to upgrade my squat plug

@Tsuki@amami.paradigm-x.tokyo I feel the opposite. Nothing is obscure anymore. Everything has a wiki or a youtube essay now. It's just that now if something is really popular its fucking everywhere and you'll be forced to hear about it.

@PurpCat@clubcyberia.co @Tsuki@amami.paradigm-x.tokyo My main gripe is that these platforms are littered with false fans. Not the idea of things becoming super popular for a month and then dying.

And by false fan I don't just mean "a 'star wars fan' whose only seen the disney movies" or whatever.

I mean Hetalia fans who hate Hetalia but like their own version of it.

I mean the Danny Phantom fan whose only frame of reference is Danny Phantom Fanfics.

I mean the Danganronpa fan who realized their favorite character is shit cuz they finally played the game after talking about it for 2 years.

And I think the only reason they feel compelked to call themselves fans in the first place is because of FOMO and their twitter timelines gave them a false impression of what the media is actually like.

This has been happening even with older shit because evrrything is so accessible now.

@eidolon@clubcyberia.co @whut@outerheaven.club

@kirby@lab.nyanide.com It's both. You have content farms who will spit out a reference or meme while a tag is trending.

You also have normies who either fall in love with fanon (fandom interpretation of canon) and add their own takes, or they have FOMO and wanna be a part of a group.

I think twitter and tik-tok being big centralized platforms have perpetuated this bandwagon culture of people who will post about/interact with a fandom without actually engaging in the media the fandom is based on.

Ppl will say it's mean to shit on ppl who wear shirts from bands they've never listened to, but it's getting to the point where you have ppl saying their persona fans despite only ever reading the wiki and being a joker main in Smash.

I'm starting to see these "parallel fandoms" where you have "fans" who enjoy the art, fanfics, and memes of a media rather than the canon media itself.

And it's all because an algorithm pushes the current Thing Of The Now to everyone regardless of any previous interest. You then have random content creators who just shoe-horn in the current thing for views while the hype is fresh and this all gives a false impression of the thing their posting about.

Anyone know any pixel artists on fedi (or in general) that take commissions?