Forums still exist - but they're not the main thrust of the kind of fandom that engages in ship fic anymore.
oh yeah, of course you're right, forums still exist, look at ME now being tumblr/DW centric. I just spent some time looking things up, and as far as I can tell - fanforum.com is still up, but I couldn't find any of the other forums that I know I participated in.
I honestly think the expectation that things be pan fandom really hurt new forums from existing
OH yeah I can see how/why that might happen.
One of the forums I participated in was an OTH forum, but then some people started watching Grey's Anatomy, and then even more people started watching it (oh, the pleasures of like, having an actual community) and then it became both a OTH and GA forum. But, And people occasionally chatted about other stuff, ofc, in the designated places, but there was no necessity to accommodate for ALL possible things, or any kind of 'universality'.
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Date: 2021-06-25 08:20 am (UTC)Forums still exist - but they're not the main thrust of the kind of fandom that engages in ship fic anymore.
oh yeah, of course you're right, forums still exist, look at ME now being tumblr/DW centric. I just spent some time looking things up, and as far as I can tell - fanforum.com is still up, but I couldn't find any of the other forums that I know I participated in.
I honestly think the expectation that things be pan fandom really hurt new forums from existing
OH yeah I can see how/why that might happen.
One of the forums I participated in was an OTH forum, but then some people started watching Grey's Anatomy, and then even more people started watching it (oh, the pleasures of like, having an actual community) and then it became both a OTH and GA forum. But, And people occasionally chatted about other stuff, ofc, in the designated places, but there was no necessity to accommodate for ALL possible things, or any kind of 'universality'.