Deleted
Deleted Member
Likes:
|
Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2016 9:30:04 GMT
Obnoxiousness or lacking social skills is one thing... The latter even has ways of getting around it. Someone deliberately going out of their way to completely destroy any chance this person has at enjoying a show that they like because the entrant's enjoyment is somehow "less pure" is something else entirely. Again, it really is like getting hit across the face with a stick. It doesn't matter that they don't have the authority or that the rest of the community looks down on them as a joke. That person who has been attacked will probably never look at that fandom or even that show in the same positive light again. I know I can't from my experiences, it makes me flinch every time I see it. What's upsetting is that it's prevalent enough to have a label for it. They're just controlling bullies. They are indeed bullies, and their actions vile - I just can't see them as gatekeepers, they can't can't prevent people from being or becoming fans, sure they can put people off when they are happened upon, but they don't control access to the fandom. Quite so, quite so. They have no power, no substance and not a shred of truth. Honestly, now that I think about it, best to forget them. |
|
shutupbanks
Castellan
There’s a horror movie called Alien? That’s really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you.
Likes: 5,679 
|
Post by shutupbanks on Sept 7, 2016 10:22:12 GMT
That's my understanding and experience of it - I could be wrong. But it's how I have experienced it in the past and seen others experience it. I probably could have simplified it by just saying "tw@ts who don't want you to like anything they think they like more than you." I have encountered it in a business and political sense, trust me the definition and application are vastly different. It's a largely sarcastic application of the term that people who have experienced it use. John Scalzi has used the term before to describe people who consider themselves to be arbiters of a fandom, as have several other people describing the phenomenon. |
|
shutupbanks
Castellan
There’s a horror movie called Alien? That’s really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you.
Likes: 5,679
|
Post by shutupbanks on Sept 7, 2016 11:29:08 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by coffeeaddict on Sept 7, 2016 12:00:56 GMT
I have encountered it in a business and political sense, trust me the definition and application are vastly different. It's a largely sarcastic application of the term that people who have experienced it use. John Scalzi has used the term before to describe people who consider themselves to be arbiters of a fandom, as have several other people describing the phenomenon. I had to look him up, can't say I have ever come across his work before. Suffice it to say this is the first instance where I have encountered this use of the term. |
|
