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{{Quotation| I think the general mindset and culture of Tumblr is effecting what people choose to write about in fic, and how they approach the characters and relationships, and gradually I'm not being able to find anything to read that hasn't been influenced by it. I think fandom really was better on a different platform, but not just for the usual reasons of Tumblr being useless for communication, I think the way it's organized somehow shapes the culture that's arisen, or encourages it. <ref> [http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/131867.html?thread=686760731#cmt686760731 fail_fandomanon]; [http://www.webcitation.org/6XdrSShu7 archive link], April 2015 </ref>}}

{{Quotation| I think the general mindset and culture of Tumblr is effecting what people choose to write about in fic, and how they approach the characters and relationships, and gradually I'm not being able to find anything to read that hasn't been influenced by it. I think fandom really was better on a different platform, but not just for the usual reasons of Tumblr being useless for communication, I think the way it's organized somehow shapes the culture that's arisen, or encourages it. <ref> [http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/131867.html?thread=686760731#cmt686760731 fail_fandomanon]; [http://www.webcitation.org/6XdrSShu7 archive link], April 2015 </ref>}}

{{Quotation2| Tumblr culture has a LOT of serious problems and I'm pretty sure it's self-destructing--but we can't talk, [[LJ]] self-destructed too, and we tore each other apart bloody before we did it. I loved LJ fandom like my own family, but I remember a lot of the same culture of ruling fear and mass bullying that goes on on tumblr from there too--that goes back at least to the 80s and [['zine]] culture, where you even had to be "sponsored" by someone at a con to be taken seriously. We started [[Social Justice|SJ]] on LJ, not tumblr--I remember early iterations going back to around 2002-03, it got serious in around 2007, and became impossible to ignore in 2009. So it had been steadily building up until tumblr got started, and many initially went to tumblr to get AWAY from the constant guiltmongering and finger-pointing. If you recall, [[DREAMWIDTH]] was originally considered the "[[special snowflake]]" haven! My old [[flist]] on LJ was all, "Oh, we'll never move to [[Dreamwidth]], all they care about is talking about disability and alternate sexualities there." Then they all did...or went to tumblr, or focused on their offline lives. My point is, the culture's always had issues, it's always been in flux, it's always cannibalized one community after another because it's never been stable, fandom always aspires to goodness while the means we attempt to reach this end is mostly bullying each other [[Snacky's Law|like the mean girls in high school]], and we always claim the moral high ground while doing this--hell, the [[Godawful Fanfic]] archive in 1998 claimed it was helping the authors it mocked behind their backs with "useful [[crit]]." Everything people are whining about with tumblr is nothing new, but an evolution of the culture we already had, that was already poisoning itself but we were too young and naive and happy to find our tribe to see it. <ref> [http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/131867.html?thread=686760731#cmt686760731 fail_fandomanon]; [http://www.webcitation.org/6XdrSShu7 archive link], April 2015 </ref>}}

{{Quotation2| Tumblr culture has a LOT of serious problems and I'm pretty sure it's self-destructing--but we can't talk, [[LJ]] self-destructed too, and we tore each other apart bloody before we did it. I loved LJ fandom like my own family, but I remember a lot of the same culture of ruling fear and mass [[bullying]] that goes on on tumblr from there too--that goes back at least to the 80s and [['zine]] culture, where you even had to be "sponsored" by someone at a con to be taken seriously. We started [[Social Justice|SJ]] on LJ, not tumblr--I remember early iterations going back to around 2002-03, it got serious in around 2007, and became impossible to ignore in 2009. So it had been steadily building up until tumblr got started, and many initially went to tumblr to get AWAY from the constant guiltmongering and finger-pointing. If you recall, [[DREAMWIDTH]] was originally considered the "[[special snowflake]]" haven! My old [[flist]] on LJ was all, "Oh, we'll never move to [[Dreamwidth]], all they care about is talking about disability and alternate sexualities there." Then they all did...or went to tumblr, or focused on their offline lives. My point is, the culture's always had issues, it's always been in flux, it's always cannibalized one community after another because it's never been stable, fandom always aspires to goodness while the means we attempt to reach this end is mostly bullying each other [[Snacky's Law|like the mean girls in high school]], and we always claim the moral high ground while doing this--hell, the [[Godawful Fanfic]] archive in 1998 claimed it was helping the authors it mocked behind their backs with "useful [[crit]]." Everything people are whining about with tumblr is nothing new, but an evolution of the culture we already had, that was already poisoning itself but we were too young and naive and happy to find our tribe to see it. <ref> [http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/131867.html?thread=686760731#cmt686760731 fail_fandomanon]; [http://www.webcitation.org/6XdrSShu7 archive link], April 2015 </ref>}}

{{Quotation| I also am fascinated by Tumblr culture and how it’s changing fandom and online interactions.  Tumblr has its pros and cons but I love how it allows for rapid creation. For example somebody will make a [[Gifset|GIF set]] and then a bunch of people will write  ficlets and create fanart about it. Or someone will have a meta or a thought, and then a lot of people will respond with images or art or other things. I love this easy multimedia collaboration and the fact that you can end up with all of these different ways to get all of these conversation branches that go interesting places about the same thing. <ref> [[A Birds-Eye View of Fandom -- Destination Toast]] </ref>}}

{{Quotation| I also am fascinated by Tumblr culture and how it’s changing fandom and online interactions.  Tumblr has its pros and cons but I love how it allows for rapid creation. For example somebody will make a [[Gifset|GIF set]] and then a bunch of people will write  ficlets and create fanart about it. Or someone will have a meta or a thought, and then a lot of people will respond with images or art or other things. I love this easy multimedia collaboration and the fact that you can end up with all of these different ways to get all of these conversation branches that go interesting places about the same thing. <ref> [[A Birds-Eye View of Fandom -- Destination Toast]] </ref>}}