11/13/2023 0 Comments Funny tumblr posts about fandoms![]() ![]() There’s always been two pieces of fandom that are important for online platforms: one as an archive, and one as a social space. You referred to the social and archival functions a fandom uses-what did you mean? And now it has something like over a million users. It’s kind of crazy that it’s been so successful because it really was built in the early days by three or four women working on it together. I was in fandom when it was being built, and I’m on the legal committee for the Organization for Transformative Works, which is the nonprofit that supports the archive as one of its projects. You can think of AO3 and Tumblr as sort of the archive side and the social side of LiveJournal, so there wasn’t a single place that people could move to, so instead you see people going to both of those places. I think that those had to get popular enough, enough people moving there so that those were a place for people to move to, because when there’s nowhere for you to go, they don’t go. You can see that Tumblr and Archive of Our Own, or AO3, are both climbing around the same time. ![]() From the chart, you’ll see that it didn’t start to precipitously dip until a couple of years after that. What you’ll notice from the chart is that between 20, things were happening with LiveJournal that made people not like it anymore. This past week, when everyone’s been talking about the Facebook scandal, it’s actually solidified an idea for me that I was thinking about as I was interpreting these results, and it’s that it wasn’t enough for LiveJournal to do some things that people described as deal-breakers-there were some design things, there were some policy things, basically everyone really soured on LiveJournal around the same time-but it wasn’t enough for that to happen there also had to be a viable alternative. I was expecting the LiveJournal drop-off to be sooner. Most of it followed about what I was expecting to see based on the interviews I’d done and based on my experiences of fandom. Did the survey results turn out about how you expected them to? ![]()
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