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Hey, other anons who are dissatisfied with tumblr as a platform for fandom (or, well, even anons who like tumblr... everyone, really), I was wondering about something.

I'm pretty new to journal sites and sadly missed the heyday of it all. So maybe this is something that happened before, but has anyone ever tried a non-anon meme style for fandom communities? Like instead of everyone making their own posts for things, discussion posts go up with headers for people to post fanart, fanfiction, and other fanworks under (for example), and then the rest of the post is available for general discussion. Switch to a new posts every 3000-5000 comments, and so on.

Thoughts? Do people think it would work, or is it more just that people don't want to use journal sites for discussion and sharing at all anymore?

why would people waste time and effort writing anything when they can just click a button to upload a picture or reblog or like someone else's posts?

I'm not entirely sure how sarcastic you're being, which is kind of sad (not about you, just in general). I think it's because some people actually enjoy discussion and writing? And it's not like commentary doesn't happen on tumblr, it's just a terrible, awkward format for pretty much everything. Even liking/reblogging stuff, it usually gets hard to find specific things after a while unless you're excellent with your tags.

I'd prefer a revival of actual fandom communities, where people posted original content and discussions instead of just reblogging the same crap. I personally think that journal sites offer substantial advantages over tumblr... we just need to build some fandom infrastructure.

Memes are fun (especially for fic challenges), but they're hard to search. I think it might be neat to have a general comm for fandom discussion, though, maybe with some weekly/biweekly discussion prompts.

I'd hardly be opposed to that, the infrastructure just seems to have changed so much.

Oh, a general one might actually be a really good way to get started! That might let us build up the infrastructure. Fans could gather again, and instead of staring at an empty community page, there would almost definitely be something. Obviously some threads would have more than others, but it could be a great kickoff point and people can figure out just how much interest there is in a particular fandom?

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