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==You're middle aged and still have a tumblr?==
==You're middle aged and still have a tumblr?==
===2014===
Often referred to as one of the primary examples of ageism on [[Tumblr]], on December 14, 2014, Anonymous asked a Tumblr user: {{Quotation|'''You're middle aged and still have a tumblr? LOL''' <ref>{{cite web | url = http://eeyore9990.tumblr.com/post/105585292478/youre-middle-aged-and-still-have-a-tumblr-lol | title = eeyore9990.tumblr |archiveurl=http://archive.fo/3Kcmh|archivedate=2019-02-21}}</ref>}} This post generated a great deal of discussion and older fans trying to enlighten others about their fandom history and continued engagement, as of June 2017 it had over 17,000 notes. Some responses:
Often referred to as one of the primary examples of ageism on [[Tumblr]], on December 14, 2014, Anonymous asked a Tumblr user: {{Quotation|'''You're middle aged and still have a tumblr? LOL''' <ref>{{cite web | url = http://eeyore9990.tumblr.com/post/105585292478/youre-middle-aged-and-still-have-a-tumblr-lol | title = eeyore9990.tumblr |archiveurl=http://archive.fo/3Kcmh|archivedate=2019-02-21}}</ref>}} This post generated a great deal of discussion and older fans trying to enlighten others about their fandom history and continued engagement, as of June 2017 it had over 17,000 notes. Some responses:
:- Tom Smith, “ConValescence” <ref>{{cite web | url = http://animatedamerican.tumblr.com/post/137161266882/youre-middle-aged-and-still-have-a-tumblr-lol | title = animatedamerican.tumblr|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20181204021929/http://animatedamerican.tumblr.com/post/137161266882/youre-middle-aged-and-still-have-a-tumblr-lol|archivedate=2018-12-04 }}</ref>}}
:- Tom Smith, “ConValescence” <ref>{{cite web | url = http://animatedamerican.tumblr.com/post/137161266882/youre-middle-aged-and-still-have-a-tumblr-lol | title = animatedamerican.tumblr|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20181204021929/http://animatedamerican.tumblr.com/post/137161266882/youre-middle-aged-and-still-have-a-tumblr-lol|archivedate=2018-12-04 }}</ref>}}
===2019===
From a fan in 2019: {{Quotation|
It's really rather distressing to go hunting through [[Fanlore|Fanlore's]] pages to try to match the original artwork I have to the '[[zine]] and [[fanfic]] it was intended for only to find that so many of the editors and [[Big Name Fans]] of my day are dead now. Of course most of them were a good deal older than I was. That was very much the norm. I was reading something on [[tumblr]] the other day about young fans being creeped out that people over 30 are still in fandom. Like so much about fandom today, I had to blink and go, "Really?" When [[fanzines]] were the thing, about all the [[BNFs]] were grown-ups -- and not just 30 year olds. Real middle-aged grown-ups with real jobs and money. You had to have grown-up money to be in the fanzine business. Because it was a small publishing business by then. I know sometimes it looks like all you needed was a [[typewriter]], a stack of memo paper and a stapler, but no... You had to have a way to get that stuff printed and promoted and distributed. And that required money. As a writer or an illustrator, you couldn't just come up with a snappy screen name and post whatever. You had to go, humbly, and write letters to grown-up fans saying, "Here are my Mr. Spock poems. Please, may I be in fandom? Please?" And most of them were nice to you... usually... <ref> from an email sent to [[[User:MPH]] from [[Teegar]], quoted with permission (February 20, 2019) </ref>}}
==Youth Perspectives==
==Youth Perspectives==