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1. waifu (waifu@mai.waifuism.life)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 04:34:21 JST waifu

   Maybe I'm too individualistic but like, doesn't the idea of a "fandom" seem too ghostly?
   Like, it's not a club, but it is, but it's not in X/Reddit but sometimes it is.
   It's like why would you care about some random person makes for some random show if they will literally stop existing for you 5 minutes later when you move on.

   • gentooP (gentoop@social.mikutter.hachune.net)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 04:34:21 JST gentooP

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     @waifu collective culture kind of thing.
     Due to the association of one person or subgroup and depending on popularity they define the impressions people get from the whole group then groups don't get the audience and other fans by negative impressions.
     Idk, just feels like my friend group is just small partly due to this. Too many people with the wrong impressions, and group can't divorce itself from dominant group and discard negative connotation with dominant group.

   • gentooP (gentoop@social.mikutter.hachune.net)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 04:46:04 JST gentooP

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     @waifu The way I describe it, group A and group B has xyz things in common and A has asd things different from B and B has hjk things different from A.
     What makes the fandom is the xyz things in common. If A want to look for more people with asd things in common A looks outside the group that shares both xyz and asd. There may be those out there but they are repelled by hjk things and if you have to go through B to find A then A will dwindle and die off with time (old age).