Not my survey, but a person at my alma mater is gathering data on the relevancy of 'older anime' among modern fans, so I thought exposing it here might help get a larger sample size. 😉
This is a poll to gather data on how the popularity of 'classic' anime has held up over time and with an increase in popularity of the mediu
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i hate how much people care about their ships being "canon" now. spirk fans didn't publish zines full of fanfics in the 70s only for modern fandom to grovel at the knees of corporations and beg for things to be canon. use your imaginations, don't allow billionaires to think for you.
why’s it so hard 4 ppl in fandom spaces 2 not be so unnecessarily mean towards others??
especially when it comes 2 these ppl getting cartoonishly angry over a ship along with hating a character so much that u butcher them in ur mind n mischaracterize them 2 hell and back, completely ignoring the character’s nuances, and dehumanizing the character even more by going as far as to call said character a “thing”derogatorily…u guys seriously need 2 chill tf out..
like seriously imagine having a full on mental breakdown over seeing, or hearing about, or seeing the full name of a character and or ship u don’t like???
(all the while bragging constantly about how much u hating said characters and or ships in multiple posts and or in ur bio n then still wonder why fans of said characters and or ships(or ppl who aren’t even fans of them but are still respectful about it) get upset at u and or want nothing 2 do with u.
there’s a HUGE difference between understandably having a character and or ship being soured 4 u due 2 bad experiences with a toxic subset of a fanbase or being triggered by a character due 2 personal reasons related 2 trauma
AND
using what u have gone through or ur own personal struggles or personal dislikes of headcanons 2 be ruthlessly nasty/catty 2 the fans of these ships,characters, or hcs who haven’t done anything wrong along with dehumanizing canonically morally grey/flawed characters that have canonically have gone through abuse of some kind.
if seeing a ship, hc, or character or even the characters’ or ship’s name is enough 2 put u in a bad mental state or have a full on mental breakdown then that is entirely on u and not the fans.
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I rarely say my takes unprompted but I genuinely can't stand modern fandom and need to scream into the void over it to thug it out.
it genuinely feels like fandom is in its gen alpha age of regression. I've noticed this heavily with other fandoms, for me I've seen it most in resident evil but now I'm seeing it in arcane too of ship wars being taken WAAAAY to seriously and just everything in general being surrounded by weird purity culture. Not to mention someone always trying to find some deep controversial reason into why you don't like a popular character or treating it like it's a direct attack. That weird portion can be left in 2020 with kinnies and IRL character shit.
What really pisses me off is that people especially on twitter, scream for fandom culture to be back, but the slightest mary sue, terrible animatic, out of character x reader, large age gap, weird fanfic, horrible but fun take, insensitive joke about a well loved character, and/or rare pair art gets crucified there. And y'all wonder why fandom is dead. Genuinely who wants to provide any material for an ungrateful bible thumping community and a hostile one at that? Or one that's so obsessed with canon.
Fandom etiquette is absolutely dead on any other website minus this one and even then I'm seeing some popular tweets that erase the fun of it here on Tumblr for some reason. Since I'm focused on arcane right now I'll be using that as an example. So what if people want to think jinx and Jayce would be friends? That doesn't mean they didn't understand the show or are less superior watchers to you. That means they don't have a stick up their ass. Who cares If someone makes a Viktor coughing joke? He does in fact cough a lot and it's placement can be funny. You are not morally ascended cause you didn't laugh at pixels fictional lung cancer. In fact you are morally shity for telling someone to kill themselves for joking about it.
Who cares if someone ships cait and Maddie over vi or vi with maddie. Or cait with ambessa or Viktor with sky or Viktor with silco. Literally the world kept spinning. Genuinely who gives a fuck it's an animated show about league not a real time war documentary 💀 Creepypasta literally turned a bunch of murders into a found family let's not forget how being delusional makes fandom more fun.
Like I said, Unfortunately since Im in an arcane place of focus this post will be using arcane examples but this does apply to every fandom.
The Shayera Hol discourse if JL/JLU aired now instead of the early 2000s
Shayera stans: yeah, she betrayed them but once she knew what her people were up to, she came through to them just like always. If it weren’t for her, Earth would be destroyed.
Shayera antis: Oh please spare me that bull. She obviously betrayed her people to save her own skin. Her actions proved that she's willing to betray anyone when it suits her. And this bs that she cared about Earth? She stood by and did nothing while her fiance ordered the league to be attacked. Not to mention that she did nothing while her people were bullying humans during the martial law and when she found out they were enslaving humans, she did nothing but say, "humans working as slaves." I swear H*wkgirl stans are on something.