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Jun. 7th, 2003 02:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taratemimaaruru in journalfen makes me feel a little dumb about the my_fandom stuff:
"The original "My Fandom" icons, which I think were in HP and Smallville fandoms, were totally created to mock fandom generalizations. But the trend got picked up by a lot of people who, to quote a friend "Emily Litella-ized" the original intent. (Emily Litella was a classic Saturday Night Live character played by Gilda Radner, whose schtick was that she'd hear something incorrectly, then run to extremes with the incorrect version.) A lot of people saw one or two "My Fandom" icons, didn't know the story behind the snark, and ran of to make their own, and somewhere a long the way a lot of the irony has been lost. There's been posts in the Buffy icon community where "My fandom" is used purely as a substitute for the subect of a genre-specific quote, like "My fandom rescues puppies." There's still some of the original meta-snark out there, but it's been hugely watered down."
Oh okay. Makes me feel a little dumb that I didn't get that.
"The original "My Fandom" icons, which I think were in HP and Smallville fandoms, were totally created to mock fandom generalizations. But the trend got picked up by a lot of people who, to quote a friend "Emily Litella-ized" the original intent. (Emily Litella was a classic Saturday Night Live character played by Gilda Radner, whose schtick was that she'd hear something incorrectly, then run to extremes with the incorrect version.) A lot of people saw one or two "My Fandom" icons, didn't know the story behind the snark, and ran of to make their own, and somewhere a long the way a lot of the irony has been lost. There's been posts in the Buffy icon community where "My fandom" is used purely as a substitute for the subect of a genre-specific quote, like "My fandom rescues puppies." There's still some of the original meta-snark out there, but it's been hugely watered down."
Oh okay. Makes me feel a little dumb that I didn't get that.
