r/hobbydrama

Subreddit
Name	/r/hobbydrama
Date(s)	6 June 2018 - Current
Founder(s)	sand500
Type	Discussion subreddit
Fandom(s)	None
URL	Reddit
Related articles on Fanlore.

r/hobbydrama is a subreddit dedicated to the documentation of drama and other historical notable events in various hobby communities and subcultures. The sub's definition of hobbies includes, among other things, fan activities like fanfiction, fanart, and cosplay. The community's scope therefore allows for posts documenting drama and history both in specific fandoms and larger fannish communities, such as exchange fandom.

The subreddit is notable for its high standards for submissions and lengthy writeups. In turn, the subreddit has received praise both from its own community and outside sources.

/r/hobbydrama is occasionally used as a source for documentation on fandom history, including on Fanlore, and vice versa; Fanlore at times is used as a documentation source for /r/hobbydrama essayists, with or without citation.

Activities

Posts to /r/hobbydrama usually take the form of extended write-ups about specific events taking place among hobbyists. The sub guidelines note that a "hobby drama post" should be:

a high-quality, well thought-out post about a dramatic event in a hobby space. Readers overwhelmingly prefer posts which lay out the history, stakes, events, and consequences of the drama, and which include receipts like screenshots or chat logs. Posts should have minimal direct involvement by the poster and not be overwhelmingly biased, and any personal information of participants who are not public figures must be censored.

Moderators of the sub also post weekly "hobby scuffles" threads where members are encouraged to post about and discuss minor or developing dramatic events. These threads are an attempt to corral information about events that don't (yet) merit a full post, and to promote higher-quality and more comprehensive hobby drama posts.

In addition to hobby drama posts, "hobby history posts" are also permitted. These are posts that provide information about the history of a given hobby, without the focus on dramatic events.

Example Fannish Submissions

Posts About Specific Fandoms or Subfandoms

A Court of Thorns and Roses

• Penisgate AKA Soap Dick in a Box - A Court of Thorns and Roses, YA, and Soapgate

Hamilton

• The HIV+ high school AU/cannibal mermaid Hamilton fanfiction incident - Hamilton fandom and hivliving

Harry Potter

• JK Rowling and the TERFed Child - Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling
• Married to Severus Snape on the Astral Plane: The Story of the Religion of Snapewives - Snapewives
• J.K. Rowling's husband's "fake" appendicitis... - the Harmonian ship war
• "The Cassandra Cla(i)re Saga" - Cassandra Clare
• "Goffick Harry Potter and Fabricated Child Abuse: The Saga of My Immortal" - My Immortal

Hetalia

• The Anime Boston Incident, AKA That One Time When Some Hetalia Cosplayers Did a Hitler Salute During a Photoshoot - Hetalia and the Anime Boston Incident

• Tumblr starts a crusade against a 'problematic' anime fandom, everyone is upset - Hetalia and the 2019 Hetalia Tag Raids

Homestuck

• The "I feel so CAUCASIAN!" Homestuck Panel - Homestuck

J-pop

• "How One of Japan's Top Idols' Career Tanked Miserably: The Unlucky Story of Kago Ai" - Morning Musume and Hello!Project
• "Hellomageddon: A Lesson in How Not to Announce Multiple Lineup Changes at Once, or The Time Hello! Project Changed Significantly Overnight" - Hello!Project
• "Idol is assaulted, nothing's really done about it, fans get pissed, management hires Hiro from Heroes as new advisor." - NGT48 (sister group of AKB48) and #JusticeForMaho

K-pop

• What happens when a former controversial Twitter stan becomes a kpop idol - K-Pop Stan Twitter and busanwings
• "The 'No Signal' Controversy: When Big Bang Fans Accused BTS of 'Plagiarizing" Big Bang's No Signal Background'" - BTS and Big Bang
• "The divorce of the century: the rise and fall of Yunjae, K-pop’s most (in)famous ship (PART 1)" and "The divorce of the century: the rise and fall of Yunjae, K-pop’s most (in)famous ship (PART 2)" - Yunjae and TVXQ
• "The tragedy of Hyun Jinyoung and the forgotten history of the Kpop industry" - SM Entertainment and Hyun Jinyoung
• "The Most Divided Kpop Fandom: TVXQ" - TVXQ
• "The most dramatic day in kpop history and the book that may or may not wind up having anything to do with it." Girls Generation, 9/30/2014, and the YA novels Shine by Jessica Jung
• "'Kim Jongdaddy': How a marriage teared a fandom apart" - EXO, specifically the Chen's marriage and the birth of his first child
• "Put your sneakers on! How a kpop group released a teaser so divisive fans thought it wasn't the real song" - Itzy and their "Sneakers" comeback
• "The Time Someone Tried To Sacrifice a K-Pop Star to Satan" - The ARMY vs EXO-L Fanwars
• "That Time Fans Were So Pissed They Bought Company Shares" - Super Junior
• "Is Jim Jones anti-Black or anti-Korean? How one sample exposed the rifts in Twitter's largest fandom" - BTS and the controversy that lead to the coining of the term "poor little meow meow"

The Lorax

• ”Is it incest if you ship a character with himself?” and other stories about the Once-ler - The Lorax and the Onceler, specifically Onecest

Marvel

• "That time Captain America was a Nazi and Tumblr blamed it on niche smut" - Captain America and the HYDRA Trash Party

My Little Pony

• "The Tale of Molestia: AKA that one time Bronies turned a pony princess into a sex offender." - My Little Pony and Ask Princess Molestia blog.
• "The Rise and Fall of Fall of Equestria: A tale of a dark AU and subfandom." - Fall of Equestria sub fandom.
• "The rise, fall, and revival of a background character adored by Bronies, Derpy Hooves." - Derpy Hooves.
• "Pinkie Pie makes some Cupcakes and Bronies are never the same again afterwards." - Cupcakes.

One Direction

• "Fans convinced a boy bander is secretly gay & dating another member of the band...even after he has a baby" - BabyGate and Larry Stylinson

Sherlock

• "A Not-So-Short History of #TJLC, the Conspiracy Theory That Divided a Fandom" - BBC Sherlock and TJLC
• "The Gigi, TJLC, & 221B Con" - BBC Sherlock and TJLC

Superwholock

• The Fall of Superwholock - Superwholock

Supernatural

• How Destiel Made Everyone On Tumblr and Twitter Regress 6 Years and Go Fucking Bonkers - Supernatural and Destiel
• " How One Actor Doxxed and Assaulted Fans After 4 Episodes on Supernatural" - Travis Aaron Wade scandal
• "One tenth of half a fraction of a survey course of Supernatural drama" - Supernatural RPF
• "The Supernatural RPF that was too controversial for fandom!" - Supernatural RPF
• "Rise of the Supernatural Fandom"

Warrior Cats

• How a decade of teen obsession with an incel created a thrilling horror mystery plot - Warrior Cats
• The Spirit Animal Club, or: I Want to Get Off Jason the Evil Polar Bear’s Wild Ride - Warrior Cats Forum RP
• The rise and fall of Draikinator: federal crimes, feral porn, and more crappy cat drawings than you can shake a stick at - Warrior Cats MAP community

War Thunder

• Someone leaked classified military documents on the War Thunder forum (for the third time in a year) - War Thunder

Posts About Pan-Fandom Activities or Events

• Livejournal's icon subculture: 100x100 pixels or else! (topic: Icon making)
• Unleashing your imagination and burning your porn stash: the Great Fanfiction.net NSFW purge(s); archive link (topic: FanFiction.Net's NC-17 Purges) (2020)
• The story of Critics United, the self-appointed fanfiction police; archive link by purplewigg (topic: Critics United and fanfiction.net) (2021)
• “Sexy times with Wangxian:” How one hated fanfiction and its record-breaking (and computer-breaking) number of tags caused mass protests on one of the internet’s largest fansites (topic: Sexy Times with Wangxian and AO3)
• "The war that spawned a pairing..." (topic: 4Chan and Tumblr)
• Tumblr and the Battle of the Gay Pirate Shows (topic: Black Sails, Our Flag Means Death, and Tumblr polls)