Social media this year
Dec. 18th, 2012 09:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wishfulclickingJust upgraded to a Paid account for a month, mostly to take advantage of the December 10% promotion (I'm five points away from a free month); but the dominant reason is that I do appreciate what this site does and its ethos. If only I could regularly post on it. (ALSO THE ICONS)
I don't have it in me to find the link to a meta post from some years ago, but the premise was that the future of fandom was not on one dominant site but multiple sites, this was written before tumblr rose and the main question was lj and dw. Back then I called it oddly prescient and, here, at the end of 2012 that seems to be what has happened to LJ based fandom* (I specify this b/c it has always driven me to distraction when discussing fandom to pretend that LJ is only where it's at). A lot of the major active fandoms now seem to grow on tumblr, but people still archive fics at places like LJ or AO3 or on tumblr itself, and even with OOQ gaining steam on tumblr, a lj comm was made that gained hundreds of followers. What is all this?
Well this year tumblr has pulled most of my attention but I have not read that much fic; I actually haven't gotten too involved with a fandom to the degree I had with bandom or Glee. I watch shows that have fandoms, and at times I do provide commentary and discussion but it's all very light.
I haven't actually done anything longform on tumblr--mostly because I lose interest halfway and want to view my dash again. My ideal would be to post stuff as tv goes on on DW, bt I never quite get around to it.
I don't have it in me to find the link to a meta post from some years ago, but the premise was that the future of fandom was not on one dominant site but multiple sites, this was written before tumblr rose and the main question was lj and dw. Back then I called it oddly prescient and, here, at the end of 2012 that seems to be what has happened to LJ based fandom* (I specify this b/c it has always driven me to distraction when discussing fandom to pretend that LJ is only where it's at). A lot of the major active fandoms now seem to grow on tumblr, but people still archive fics at places like LJ or AO3 or on tumblr itself, and even with OOQ gaining steam on tumblr, a lj comm was made that gained hundreds of followers. What is all this?
Well this year tumblr has pulled most of my attention but I have not read that much fic; I actually haven't gotten too involved with a fandom to the degree I had with bandom or Glee. I watch shows that have fandoms, and at times I do provide commentary and discussion but it's all very light.
I haven't actually done anything longform on tumblr--mostly because I lose interest halfway and want to view my dash again. My ideal would be to post stuff as tv goes on on DW, bt I never quite get around to it.
