It's true. I'm not surprised that tumblr has the sort of priorities and attitudes that it does. Twitter is reportedly even worse, which is also unsurprising on a site that is built for extreme short-form. You *can't* allow for nuance, so instead you aim for the hottest, most extreme takes because that's what gets traction.
But yes, it's exhausting, and does genuinely damage the way I think people interact with fandom. I miss the days where garbage like that did get relegated to Fandom Wank, or at least could be fairly widely dismissed as the nonsense it is. Now there are way too many people falling into the "puritanism with a gay hat" groups, who think they are truly on a moral quest to get rid of all the icky weirdos who... idk, write about Unapproved Topics like sex or whatever. Or who dare to exist over the age of 25.
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Date: 2022-03-18 03:23 am (UTC)But yes, it's exhausting, and does genuinely damage the way I think people interact with fandom. I miss the days where garbage like that did get relegated to Fandom Wank, or at least could be fairly widely dismissed as the nonsense it is. Now there are way too many people falling into the "puritanism with a gay hat" groups, who think they are truly on a moral quest to get rid of all the icky weirdos who... idk, write about Unapproved Topics like sex or whatever. Or who dare to exist over the age of 25.