Shout out to the fanders who never get ‘picked’ on the ‘who are the most popular blogs in this fandom’ posts. You’re awesome, you belong here, and whether you have 5 followers or 500 or 5000, you’re important and you’re wanted, and I love you. I hope you have an awesome day and remember you make the fandom better by being here and being a part of things!
I couldn’t have said it better myself. Anytime I see those posts they just make me feel weird, especially because of how many of them have tagged me. I don’t believe that anyone in the community is better than anyone else just because of their follower count or how popular their blog is. We are all here for the same reasons and have our own things that we contribute, and each of them are important in their own way. We don’t need a ranking of who is better, we are all equally great.
I think it’s more (if your referencing the new fander introduction posts) a list of one particular persons favorite blogs just to start it off and they can build from there. That’s what I feel is the sentiment. If it’s not for that reason I get you tho
No there’s actual posts about “fandom overlords” going around all the time that’s what we’re talking about
This “fandom overlords” thing seems to happen in every fandom I’ve been in and it’s very dividing. I’d much rather everyone just love everyone and enjoy what’s what! Spreading love is good but let’s not put people on pedestals.
Spreading love is good but let’s not put people on pedestals
I don’t like being put on a pedestal, tbh. Like I’m just on here being an idiot like everybody else. Don’t get me wrong, I’m very grateful for my follower count. I’m flattered to be considered a lot of people’s favorite or even twentieth favorite blog. But I don’t want to be idolized or held to a god status kind of standard. I’m just Roman. Just a guy with some ideas and some problems and some love for a particular YouTube series. I’m nobody’s overlord. My followers aren’t my subjects. My followers are people that get my nonsense on their dash and I chat with sometimes and it’s nice.
I love the tiny blogs. I love what they contribute, and they do contribute and they’re just as important as me or LJ or Marin or Virgil or one of the Logans or anybody. I remember being one of those tiny blogs in the beginning and I’m still doing very similar things now as I was back then. Just maybe writing a little less and censoring certain opinions a little more. I love the under 1000 blogs. The under 100 blogs. They put out such interesting stuff all the time. I see it in the tags. I see it in the ones I end up following. You’re spreading ideas, you’re drawing, you’re writing, you’re being loud fanpersons, your being yourselves. Three or ten or twenty popular people isn’t what makes a community. It’s everyone else that does. And if even one person enters or leaves that community it’s a bit different. Even if they only have five followers.
All of that, all of it
Does anyone else remember when no one nagged Thomas for “taking too long” or hated on each other for disagreeing with a headcanon or ship? (The time between parts one and two of Accepting Anxiety when everyone hated on Prinxiety shall not be mentioned) Does anyone remember that? Can we go back to that? When people were nice to each other and no one was a “god-teir fander” or a “true fander if …” I just wanna go back to that. Sorry if this was long or got off track, I’ve just got a lot of feelings …
Oh but I doubt fanders aren’t nice towards each other is an issue here. Quite the opposite I think. Fanders try too hard to be nice but well, you can’t simply list everyone and that’s what makes it unfair. That’s the paradox.
i am on tumblr to gush about stuff i am passionate about so that my irl friends don’t have to deal with it. popularity on tumblr of course is something many blogs aspire to be. but honestly? it is probably an incredible pressure.
I consider myself absolutely not popular on this hellsite and i admire the people who are indeed. But every blog is run by a person who is just as passionate about this dork as we all are. I think we gotta accept that everyone is human and just as nerdy as the next of us.
all of the above, i couldn’t have said it better. let’s just be dorks together shall we?
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