So. I’ve decided not to publish the article on hockey fandom. Instead we’ll be publishing a much narrower, shorter piece on lockout-related internet memes
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I'm glad you've reconsidered and are starting to stare down numbers 5 and 6 of your journalistic ethics post, but let's just say angry and bewildered doesn't really cover my reaction. I laughed my face off at your 1D fandom post and the ensuing reaction, but it hasn't been funny now that the shoe's on the foot of my fandom/me, so I'm going to own my hypocrisy on that front. I actually feel weirdly betrayed (too strong a word, maybe, but it's the closest one) by all of this - that it took hockey fandom uniting for the first time basically ever to hammer "the fourth fucking wall exists for a reason!" home to you
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I think the big difference between the 1D and hockey fandoms is that 1D never really had a wall to begin with. The tin-hatters were very forceful in there interaction with that band and bringing it to their attention via Facebook/twitter/tumblr. But hockey rpf is very firmly behind that wall and NOT widely known, which makes something like this more than potentially harmful to the fandom participants.
Feeling betrayed, that's understandable when the strife started from someone who has been and is still a staple in many fandoms. I feel uneasy about the whole thing, but I feel we were lucky that it was Aja writing for Daily Dot and not a sportswriter composing a mocking article in a serious sports outlet. It might have taken her a bit to realize what she was actually putting people through, but once she took a step back and took in the bigger picture, she dropped the story. She is taking responsibility. That would not have happened with any other columnist or journalist. They would have done it any way.
I do agree with your first point - that there's definitely more people taking their wares to the front door, so to speak, in 1D. Hockey fandom's been a mix of people who lock and people who don't but we've been consistently on the page that says streams should not be crossing. I sometimes randomize links to anything that I feel could do a trackback to something they don't need to be seeing; I know plenty of others who do the same. This enforced "behind the veil" session took a toll; a fandom I'm very emotionally invested in is paying a cost. I don't appreciate it
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Oh, goodness no. I didn't mean to sound like you should be grateful. If anything it makes it more painful because it was a familiar face/name. I'm hoping the repercussions aren't long lasting. I'd only just started getting a feel for this fandom before this whole thing exploded, so I'm hoping it will regain its footing quickly. But I'll have to wait a while after the dust has settled.
I don't even know what this is about but <3s for you okay <333
It's tough negotiating fandom sometimes - we're all fundamentally on the same side but sometimes it is surprisingly, and sometimes painfully, hard to actually figure out what that side is supposed to be - and I respect and look up to you for always carrying on and keeping the love first and foremost.
"As a fan, I have said for years, will keep saying it, that if we want the media to represent us well, we have to represent ourselves first, before some asshole comes along and misrepresents us
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Thank you for your comment. I appreciate what you're saying, and I will try to keep it in mind for the future.
But when I see 1D fans, poddficcers, and hockey fans all saying that you are misrepresenting or upsetting them, I get a bit wary that it's not just the wanksters or the "lock down the fic the sky is falling" types going back at it again. I get wary because it says, to me, that you haven't yet figured out that being a fan yourself doesn't stop you from accidentally misrepresenting fandom, or not understanding and articulating fannish perspectives that are different from your own, or even, horror of horrors!, being an asshole.In my defense, this comment overlooks all the times I've reported on fandoms that i'm not in and gotten only positive feedback from members of those fandoms (Janoskians, Twilight, the Lorax, Sherlock, Nerdfighters, to name some examples off the top of my head
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no, it's okay. i know better than anyone that if i do something right 10 times, i will inevitably screw up so badly on the 11th time that no one will ever remember the first ten.
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Feeling betrayed, that's understandable when the strife started from someone who has been and is still a staple in many fandoms. I feel uneasy about the whole thing, but I feel we were lucky that it was Aja writing for Daily Dot and not a sportswriter composing a mocking article in a serious sports outlet. It might have taken her a bit to realize what she was actually putting people through, but once she took a step back and took in the bigger picture, she dropped the story. She is taking responsibility. That would not have happened with any other columnist or journalist. They would have done it any way.
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It's tough negotiating fandom sometimes - we're all fundamentally on the same side but sometimes it is surprisingly, and sometimes painfully, hard to actually figure out what that side is supposed to be - and I respect and look up to you for always carrying on and keeping the love first and foremost.
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Thank you for your comment. I appreciate what you're saying, and I will try to keep it in mind for the future.
But when I see 1D fans, poddficcers, and hockey fans all saying that you are misrepresenting or upsetting them, I get a bit wary that it's not just the wanksters or the "lock down the fic the sky is falling" types going back at it again. I get wary because it says, to me, that you haven't yet figured out that being a fan yourself doesn't stop you from accidentally misrepresenting fandom, or not understanding and articulating fannish perspectives that are different from your own, or even, horror of horrors!, being an asshole.In my defense, this comment overlooks all the times I've reported on fandoms that i'm not in and gotten only positive feedback from members of those fandoms (Janoskians, Twilight, the Lorax, Sherlock, Nerdfighters, to name some examples off the top of my head ( ... )
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no, it's okay. i know better than anyone that if i do something right 10 times, i will inevitably screw up so badly on the 11th time that no one will ever remember the first ten.
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