By the way, I hope I haven't been overwhelming you by commenting on your posts like this but you're bringing up such cool subjects for Three Weeks! It's hard to hold back, haha
I enjoy your comments very much, thank you for taking the time to write them ^^ And thank you, it’s the first time I’m doing Three Weeks, I hope I don’t run out of questions lol
Indeed, the sense of community back then was totally different from what it is now. There are so many aspects of how social media is nowadays that make it unhealthy, and that also takes real conversation and connection away. Concerning fandom, I’m currently also on Twitter because the fandom of the Spanish telenovela I’m watching is there, but I often feel unsure of what I’m doing there. I usually just post my fan drawings, comment on other fan drawings that I see and like, and repost them. I’m often unsure about posting things like opinions on something because I feel like everything you post can be misinterpreted or taken out of context.
I'm not sure the younger people who didn't quite get to experience that first-hand back then fully understand why it makes us nostalgic to think about and it's a pity. If more people missed it then maybe we'd have more people trying to rebuild something in that vein, too...
They probably don’t understand it, because they’ve only known the social media landscape. I think they also sometimes expect everything to be ‘easy’ (algorithms deciding for you what content you see, instead of actively looking for things in other ways), even the relatively easy ‘complexity’ of AO3 these days is frowned upon sometimes in favor of something like Wattpad. Indeed, I agree that if more people missed it, they might try to rebuild older community-based things.
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I enjoy your comments very much, thank you for taking the time to write them ^^ And thank you, it’s the first time I’m doing Three Weeks, I hope I don’t run out of questions lol
Indeed, the sense of community back then was totally different from what it is now. There are so many aspects of how social media is nowadays that make it unhealthy, and that also takes real conversation and connection away. Concerning fandom, I’m currently also on Twitter because the fandom of the Spanish telenovela I’m watching is there, but I often feel unsure of what I’m doing there. I usually just post my fan drawings, comment on other fan drawings that I see and like, and repost them. I’m often unsure about posting things like opinions on something because I feel like everything you post can be misinterpreted or taken out of context.
They probably don’t understand it, because they’ve only known the social media landscape. I think they also sometimes expect everything to be ‘easy’ (algorithms deciding for you what content you see, instead of actively looking for things in other ways), even the relatively easy ‘complexity’ of AO3 these days is frowned upon sometimes in favor of something like Wattpad. Indeed, I agree that if more people missed it, they might try to rebuild older community-based things.