nta but if it wasn't for die hard community there wouldn't be any fanart, leads, porn, or fanfiction. Cancerous people aside im grateful because I ain't making all that shit myself
I'm the anon you replied to, and what I've noticed is a severe issue with people thinking everything needs a "community," and not in a healthy way. How many times have you seen "what killed the hype?" and "I am forgotten ..." whenever something hasn't been talked about on Cinemaphile for a few milliseconds? It's all this consuming, "someone has to be talking about this, I cant just go watch it on my own" stance. For people who do create fanart like myself, it's weird too, because people treat your work as if it were made "for the fandom." You're seen as "contributing to the fandom" now instead of just making art for yourself that happens to be online. See also people who say "I'm leaving/joining the fandom" or "the fandom is dying" - you can just be a fan of something, no need for this weird automatic fandom membership thing. Y'know?
>How many times have you seen "what killed the hype?" and "I am forgotten ..." whenever something hasn't been talked about on Cinemaphile for a few milliseconds? It's all this consuming, "someone has to be talking about this, I cant just go watch it on my own" stance.
THIS holy shit, I've been saying this for fricking ages. Cinemaphile is full of terminally online zoomers who think something not having a 24/7 general on the front page means nobody knows or cares about it and they start hailing it as le underrated overlooked forgotten hidden gem. I think it's partially where all these schizos are coming from, because the cartoon or comic they like gets doomed about so much they feel a 'duty' to 'save' it from being forgotten when that's not even the case. Danger Mouse was already brought up and it's a good example. It's one of the most iconic British series of all time, the reboot racked up millions of views when it aired making it the most watched show on CBBC, it had a relatively recent merch drop, shitloads of people are still watching it and the original on Netflix to this day, even the channel being axed doesn't really mean anything in the long run since you can still stream it and most people already were. But because some imageboard autists aren't constantly discussing it, anons act like it's dead. It's such a moronic mindset that you can't enjoy this thing anymore because gays on the internet moved on or aren't pumping out memes and fanfic at the same rate they used to, but I guess fandoms are inherently moronic. Enjoy a show for yourself, not for others. Frick Duckulagay though, he's not just part of but also more of a problem than the imaginary 'underageb&' living in his head rent free.
>but I guess fandoms are inherently moronic. Enjoy a show for yourself, not for others.
I have reached this point too. Not to mention I've had to deal with coming across as super controlling because the fandom for something I'm recommending to them is full of nasty shit (and google's tendency to put major spoilers front and center thanks to pageviews). >Duckulagay
To be honest, I only come here once in a blue moon, so I'm not up to speed on all the gossip. Cinemaphile has a funny way of flanderizing its own anons though (had it happen to me myself) so I do tend to take "this anon sucks" talk with a grain of salt until I see it myself. >where all these schizos are coming from
As an artist, I think the problem started when tumblr and twitter started. Social media gained this format of a constant flow, like a river you have to stay afloat (relevant) in. And that only got faster and faster. People got impatient. The gallery/personal webpage format? No more time for that. Artist's descriptions? They don't wanna see that anymore, consume consume consume. And on top of that came Netflix and the whole binge format, which is an essay's worth of trouble. You are expected to "keep up" a an unreasonable pace. "Be on top of things." Notice how so much is about talking about the ending, the ending, the ending, not the journey. It's because everything relies on shock, so it gets that sweet online attention. Anyway, I'm getting off-track.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Not to mention I've had to deal with coming across as super controlling because the fandom for something I'm recommending to them is full of nasty shit
That sucks. Most people I know take the hint if I mention not to touch the fandom with a ten foot pole.
>so I do tend to take "this anon sucks" talk with a grain of salt until I see it myself.
He's far from the worst this board has to offer, he's just an annoying sperg who occasionally shits his pants over a dead dude.
>I think the problem started when tumblr and twitter started. Social media gained this format of a constant flow, like a river you have to stay afloat (relevant) in. And that only got faster and faster. People got impatient. The gallery/personal webpage format? No more time for that. Artist's descriptions? They don't wanna see that anymore, consume consume consume. And on top of that came Netflix and the whole binge format, which is an essay's worth of trouble. You are expected to "keep up" a an unreasonable pace. "Be on top of things." Notice how so much is about talking about the ending, the ending, the ending, not the journey. It's because everything relies on shock, so it gets that sweet online attention.
Yeah, there it is. I think you hit the nail on the head.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I noticed it as far back as 2010/2011 when everyone I knew was abandoning their deviantART accounts for tumblr. I only gave in because the fact that no one would leave comments on my art anymore got so lonely and frustrating. I figured that if I did cave in and make an account, at least I'd get comments again (even if they would be in a weird format). So I did. But the silence was still there ... unless I drew fanart, and only fanart of what is most popular at the time (for instance, if I still liked something but everyone else had moved on, tough breasts). It wasn't hip to comment on artwork anymore, and I remember the tumblr controversy of people actually removing artist's descriptions because "it didn't fit the aesthetic of my blog." Even today, people don't give a shit about original art unless it's super in-your-face (cough coomerish cough). Only then will they ask questions, otherwise they can't be bothered to take the time.
2 years ago
Anonymous
They can't remove your description if you put it on a pic.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I know that's the case now, but in the past it wasn't and that's legitimately what would happen
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Not to mention I've had to deal with coming across as super controlling because the fandom for something I'm recommending to them is full of nasty shit
That sucks. Most people I know take the hint if I mention not to touch the fandom with a ten foot pole.
>so I do tend to take "this anon sucks" talk with a grain of salt until I see it myself.
He's far from the worst this board has to offer, he's just an annoying sperg who occasionally shits his pants over a dead dude.
>I think the problem started when tumblr and twitter started. Social media gained this format of a constant flow, like a river you have to stay afloat (relevant) in. And that only got faster and faster. People got impatient. The gallery/personal webpage format? No more time for that. Artist's descriptions? They don't wanna see that anymore, consume consume consume. And on top of that came Netflix and the whole binge format, which is an essay's worth of trouble. You are expected to "keep up" a an unreasonable pace. "Be on top of things." Notice how so much is about talking about the ending, the ending, the ending, not the journey. It's because everything relies on shock, so it gets that sweet online attention.
Yeah, there it is. I think you hit the nail on the head.
I noticed it as far back as 2010/2011 when everyone I knew was abandoning their deviantART accounts for tumblr. I only gave in because the fact that no one would leave comments on my art anymore got so lonely and frustrating. I figured that if I did cave in and make an account, at least I'd get comments again (even if they would be in a weird format). So I did. But the silence was still there ... unless I drew fanart, and only fanart of what is most popular at the time (for instance, if I still liked something but everyone else had moved on, tough breasts). It wasn't hip to comment on artwork anymore, and I remember the tumblr controversy of people actually removing artist's descriptions because "it didn't fit the aesthetic of my blog." Even today, people don't give a shit about original art unless it's super in-your-face (cough coomerish cough). Only then will they ask questions, otherwise they can't be bothered to take the time.
Frick...consumerism has killed the life out of media. Now everything has to trend or else its forgotten and garbage.
2 years ago
Anonymous
You mean "or else its 'forgotten' and 'garbage.'c
2 years ago
Anonymous
Mmm, yeah. Zombie fandoms are a plague because of that sentiment, nothing kills me inside quite like an obligation to keep the fire going 24/7. Worst part is when artificially keeping it alight extinguishes interest forever.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Name 5 zombie fandoms I have literally never heard of this
2 years ago
Anonymous
Gravity Falls
Centaurworld
Sonic
Are Simpsons and Family Guy cheating?
2 years ago
Anonymous
neither of those are zombie fandoms, maybe centaurwolrd, but definitely not the rest
2 years ago
Anonymous
Homestuck
My life as a Teenage Robot
Kim Possible
Randy Cunningham 9th grade Ninja
Generator Rex
2 years ago
Anonymous
>My life as a Teenage Robot
this one is good,though
more people ought to watch it
2 years ago
Anonymous
every so often theres a jenny thirst thread
2 years ago
Anonymous
My issue as I said earlier is the concept of "fandom" to begin with
2 years ago
Anonymous
This thread is oddly therapeutic. I felt like for the past year or so I've had to keep participating and talking and posting to be a "real" fan of /mlp/, or at least, to keep it alive.
Its actually really sucked the enjoyment out of things.
>nothing kills me inside quite like an obligation to keep the fire going 24/7. Worst part is when artificially keeping it alight extinguishes interest forever.
Perfect summary.
MLP, saw when it started to decay after the whole twilicorn happened and slowly snowballed into a big frickfest that i had to cut off a lot of people i met. Mainly stay for the amazing fanart because it tooked me back when things where simple, i couldn't completely quit but none the less the show and fandom was dead to me.
I came back to it after Twilicorn a year or two ago now, and I think I should just browse boorus for art and read fics on fimfiction now and then. Discussing it feels really kind of pointless now.
i was too young to witness the glory days of season 1/2 and i will forever be mad
It was magical, truly amazing.
>it started to decay after the whole twilicorn happened
Has there ever been a fandom to see such a rapid and non-stop decline after a single change in a single episode?
I genuinely don't think I've ever seen one decision have so many destructive knock-on effects on every aspect of a show's quality.
The rot was already seeping in when Twilight had a brother out of nowhere, but yeah, >wings really made shit hit the fan.
>being a fan of pre-G4 MLP
There is a thread now and then but it can slide off pretty fast. Its sad.
2 years ago
Anonymous
MLP, saw when it started to decay after the whole twilicorn happened and slowly snowballed into a big frickfest that i had to cut off a lot of people i met. Mainly stay for the amazing fanart because it tooked me back when things where simple, i couldn't completely quit but none the less the show and fandom was dead to me.
I never got to watch the show in its heyday. Did it ever get better after S03?
2 years ago
Anonymous
The fandom never fully recovered from its loss of innocence.
>Did it ever get better after S03?
As a whole, no. There are still good episodes after S3, but as time goes on, less and less, more average or mediocre, then just outright bad. By S8-9, mainly bad.
Its still a great show for the most part, but S1-2 were the peak. 3 as well if you're being generous.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>everything has to be about the ending
This has absolutely destroyed most longevity of discussion within fandoms. After a show ends, it’s all about the ending and other episodes are just left to rot, never to be brought up or have content made of them again.
>For people who do create fanart like myself, it's weird too, because people treat your work as if it were made "for the fandom." You're seen as "contributing to the fandom"
this, I made fanart and I got hate for it, and I thought to myself, you know this is free art and you're not entitled to it, I don't know what the frick goes through some people's mind on the internet
>and you're not entitled to it
I had so many people who liked my self-insert art. Then I found out they didn't give a shit about my own feelings that went into it and actually went as far as to project themselves over my existence (aka they were just coomers who wanted the same character rather than genuinely shipping it). I wizened up about posting art that was so deeply personal online in the first place, but man shit still hurt. I hate the "this is for me" mentality they have.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Then I found out they didn't give a shit about my own feelings that went into it and actually went as far as to project themselves over my existence
lol, fricking moronic homosexual, why would you think anyone cares about you? Of course they don't care about you and just want what ever characters from the cartoon you are self inserting into. You most be a huge egotistical homosexual.
>I made fanart and I got hate for it
Ah, the age old story of getting death threats and being told to kys over dumb art. Reminds me of when it happened to a kid that made some steven universe that happened to be one bit too thin, I dont get why cartoons that spread a message of being kind get so many bonker psychos in their fandoms, same shit happened in Wonder Over Yander's.
Good post. Thanks for clarifying what you meant. Fandoms can be complete fricking cancer because it stops being about the show/movie/comic and starts becoming about the individuals in the fandom and keeping something "alive" after it's ran its course. That's probably why people always keep asking for things they like to come back (usually for the worse) instead of moving on to new things. It's not all bad but it can spiral out of control incredibly fast.
Look into the study of religion. Consumerism replaced zealots, so you unironically have the people who would have been afflicted with religious schizophrenia and a need to be part of a community and would partake in inquisitions, and now they're just the same phenotype of people who consume media obsessively. I'm dead serious and being very literal, just pay attention to the way people talk about it and pretend it's religious and it becomes very apparent what they're trying to replace.
I hate it. I hate it so much. I feel like a bitter old fart now that my stance is "It's not for you."
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I come to Cinemaphile to talk about shows and share thoughts, art, and arguments with you anons. What's wrong with that? It's only natural to come to like a show and thus involve yourself in the "fandom" as in going into the threads regularly to discuss shit
>What's wrong with that?
Putting said "fandom" above your own opinions and your own personal enjoyment. Not checking out something unless it has "an active fandom." That sort of thing is what I've been talking about.
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That's part of the fun sometimes. Sometimes I'll rewatch a show or watch an older show and go "I kinda want to talk to anons about this." but doing "i just watched [x]" and blah blah. Boards like these you got to make a more appealing thread. So you dig up old or contentious discussion just to get the ball rolling. >they care about making it their personality.
I feel like those are fringe cases. This board more than others has quite a few nutcases—just look at the catalog—but doesn't make the concept of fandoms, if one can even seperate such a conception from the wider idea of enjoying a show and engaging with others who feel similarly, inherently bad. Also the fandom membership thing seems to just be a protest of how poor the threads or show have become. If you enjoy a show and often find yourself in the threads you are part of the fandom, at least on Cinemaphile. I think you guys are just fabricating these ideas that some people treat liking a show like a political opinion. Fortunately or unfortunately there isn't always readily avalible means of excersising your "fandomhood" like you can on othersites like r*ddit or t*mblr or d*scord or even tw*tter where discussion; sure you can scream into the void and make threads all day but with both anonymity and sand castles on a beach format of threads it's far different to contributions to a mega discussion dedicated to this franchise
>just fabricating
I've been speaking from personal experience the entire time, anon.
>and you're not entitled to it
I had so many people who liked my self-insert art. Then I found out they didn't give a shit about my own feelings that went into it and actually went as far as to project themselves over my existence (aka they were just coomers who wanted the same character rather than genuinely shipping it). I wizened up about posting art that was so deeply personal online in the first place, but man shit still hurt. I hate the "this is for me" mentality they have.
This is a good point I forgot to mention too. Or when the fandom is infamous over some sort of war (ex. a "wholesome" ship vs a "problematic" ship for example, so say one wrong thing like "can we not demonize people" and you're branded a freak on their side) and you're actually in the rare "all of these frickers are obnoxious" boat. I hate the "face of the fandom" point too, usually they're just someone who was in the right place at the right time and is conveniently passive in their opinions so they have mass appeal, but now they get treated like an honorary staff member.
etc
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Not checking out something unless it has "an active fandom."
Fair enough, people who do that are just mentally ill. While something having an active fandom, usually in regards to something still airing, it can draw people who want to "be in" during the height of the fandom expierence but if your main attraction to a franchise is based on the parasocial, then yeah, that's obviously bad. Still, you're certainly exaggerating some aspects as well as extent in which other aspects exist
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Are you being intentionally obtuse?
Explain how any of my statments suggest this? Or do you just not have an argument and you're resorting to putting your fingers in your ears
2 years ago
Anonymous
I'm not exaggerating anything. I'm talking about what I have seen, myself, across the internet and on Cinemaphile. You must be a very lucky anon to have not seen what's been mentioned here.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Fine you're misinterpreting then. The things you "see" are not only less common than you claim but also very less genuine than you seem to take them for. Quit trying force ignorance onto me simply because i disagree
2 years ago
Anonymous
>explains personal experiences exactly as they are, and so do other anons >"you're making shit up" >"you're exaggerating" >"what you 'see'"
Holy gaslighting, Batman. If you downright refuse to believe anything I or other anons are saying, there's literally no point in talking to you anymore. I'm not going to bother at this point.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I'm disagreeing with how you see it. You're a moron. GG
2 years ago
Anonymous
>I disagree with your PERSONAL experience that I'm not a part of and wasn't there for
you're literally a moron
2 years ago
Anonymous
Sounds more like a classic case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Your pic doesn't make sense. Fandoms are the worst, the world would be better off without them. Squidward should be happy.
so this is why there isn't an active ''doujin'' community in the west unlike in Japan, westoids think it's weird and cringe to be part of something for whatever reason.
>westoids think it's weird and cringe to be part of something for whatever reason
Not what I was talking about at all. I was talking about people treating your art as if you made it "for" them, no matter how personal it is. I do know of western circlejerks where they act like they all "share" the love of a character (fake waifugays, for lack of a better term). These types all "support" each other but underneath the surface they just want to be liked the most so they can be the one with the most affirmation. If you're not a haremgay like they are (though they'd never admit it) they cast you out. It's some form of toxic positivity cult mentality for sure.
Because it led to people assuming thing about you because if you like a show you must be like the rest of the "community". You also have homosexual who will act as the face of the "community" and talk for everyone. Also it creates way too many moronic console war bullshit and pointless drama.
This is a good point I forgot to mention too. Or when the fandom is infamous over some sort of war (ex. a "wholesome" ship vs a "problematic" ship for example, so say one wrong thing like "can we not demonize people" and you're branded a freak on their side) and you're actually in the rare "all of these frickers are obnoxious" boat. I hate the "face of the fandom" point too, usually they're just someone who was in the right place at the right time and is conveniently passive in their opinions so they have mass appeal, but now they get treated like an honorary staff member.
It's pretty hard for dedicated Ron's Gone Wrong fans to find each other. No coomer material in it, I guess. Made one friend over discord cause of it, who's french and talks to me via google translate.
There there's the Danger Mouse reboot, which was very active here in late 2015 / early 2016 when it first aired, but then totally died when everyone realised it wasn't that good of a show. It had a minor rebound a few years later with some roleplaying anon command threads of like 7 posters, something that became a forced meme / in-joke and now I just find it annoying whenever it's brought up cause I know it's just one underageb& anon on here that does it.
>It's pretty hard for dedicated Ron's Gone Wrong fans to find each other. No coomer material in it, I guess. Made one friend over discord cause of it, who's french and talks to me via google translate.
kek, oddly heartwarming.
>the obsession with the "community" aspect is wrong.
what do you mean?
This, the obsession with the "community" aspect is wrong.
I come to Cinemaphile to talk about shows and share thoughts, art, and arguments with you anons. What's wrong with that? It's only natural to come to like a show and thus involve yourself in the "fandom" as in going into the threads regularly to discuss shit
I think anons here are talking about extreme cases, like
I'm the anon you replied to, and what I've noticed is a severe issue with people thinking everything needs a "community," and not in a healthy way. How many times have you seen "what killed the hype?" and "I am forgotten ..." whenever something hasn't been talked about on Cinemaphile for a few milliseconds? It's all this consuming, "someone has to be talking about this, I cant just go watch it on my own" stance. For people who do create fanart like myself, it's weird too, because people treat your work as if it were made "for the fandom." You're seen as "contributing to the fandom" now instead of just making art for yourself that happens to be online. See also people who say "I'm leaving/joining the fandom" or "the fandom is dying" - you can just be a fan of something, no need for this weird automatic fandom membership thing. Y'know?
explained here. It's okay to like stuff passively, but some don't actually care about the community, they care about making it their personality.
I get what you're saying too, getting into a fandom, making friends, and creating together would be heavenly. But there's more wackos out there how rather just see artists like myself as a tool than a buddy
I'm the anon you replied to, and what I've noticed is a severe issue with people thinking everything needs a "community," and not in a healthy way. How many times have you seen "what killed the hype?" and "I am forgotten ..." whenever something hasn't been talked about on Cinemaphile for a few milliseconds? It's all this consuming, "someone has to be talking about this, I cant just go watch it on my own" stance. For people who do create fanart like myself, it's weird too, because people treat your work as if it were made "for the fandom." You're seen as "contributing to the fandom" now instead of just making art for yourself that happens to be online. See also people who say "I'm leaving/joining the fandom" or "the fandom is dying" - you can just be a fan of something, no need for this weird automatic fandom membership thing. Y'know?
That's part of the fun sometimes. Sometimes I'll rewatch a show or watch an older show and go "I kinda want to talk to anons about this." but doing "i just watched [x]" and blah blah. Boards like these you got to make a more appealing thread. So you dig up old or contentious discussion just to get the ball rolling. >they care about making it their personality.
I feel like those are fringe cases. This board more than others has quite a few nutcases—just look at the catalog—but doesn't make the concept of fandoms, if one can even seperate such a conception from the wider idea of enjoying a show and engaging with others who feel similarly, inherently bad. Also the fandom membership thing seems to just be a protest of how poor the threads or show have become. If you enjoy a show and often find yourself in the threads you are part of the fandom, at least on Cinemaphile. I think you guys are just fabricating these ideas that some people treat liking a show like a political opinion. Fortunately or unfortunately there isn't always readily avalible means of excersising your "fandomhood" like you can on othersites like r*ddit or t*mblr or d*scord or even tw*tter where discussion; sure you can scream into the void and make threads all day but with both anonymity and sand castles on a beach format of threads it's far different to contributions to a mega discussion dedicated to this franchise
>I think you guys are just fabricating
And I think you haven't been in shittier fandoms, but I suppose that's a good thing. Cinemaphile is different, the tribe shit was the most brain numbing experience, I'm so glad the main two shows doing that are ended or ending soon. It's getting harder to find people here who want to talk about niche shit, hell, even the OC creation threads barely hit bump limit. Fandoms sadly gotten so big finding a good conversation is like finding a pin in a hay barrel. One good example of the political stuff is with nuHomestuck, if you like the post 2016 content that means you're a supporter of trans people or ship a certain ship, and can do no wrong. And if you don't, you're basically a pariah in the fandom. Or if you like Harry Potter, you're a huge terf racist or something. These issues stem from Tumblr and twitter, yes, but it makes it hard interacting with a wider fandom outside Cinemaphile.
I just wanna grill and talk about monster high and make funny fanart, doing it by myself seems to be my only option.
yeah I stopped browsing Cinemaphile when the tribe thing was spammed super hard
mostly cause I was just not watching any cartoons at all in that time frame but it certainly helped
everything i hear about homestuck makes it sound more and more insaney
i once got told it was a literal thought crime against the trans to still like harry potter. it's just a book/cartoon/webcomic you damn weirdos, not your whole personality
2 years ago
Anonymous
While HP was my childhood, I will yes I wouldn't go back and reread the books, I'll watch certain movies tho, they can be comfy. It's not amazing, but people acting like it wasn't a huge deal because JK acts like a middle-aged woman and liking it means you killed 500,000 trans people is hilarious to me.
Homestuck...the fandom is slowly eating itself on twitter and on aco, there are no promises of any more content, even the video game might not be completed thanks to bad management. Another piece of media that meant a lot to me growing up, but I can't make myself care about now. The thrill of an upd8, or seeing the thousands of new fan art posted daily, was unmatched. >insaney
well the creator did try to sue a youtuber for...making a video about the horrible shit that happened in the fandom, so the fandom is just following his bad actions.
2 years ago
Anonymous
i read some kind of tumblr post about one of the characters having a baby with a dog and i dont even know if it's fake. that's how weird homestuck looks from the outside to me
2 years ago
Anonymous
>i read some kind of tumblr post about one of the characters having a baby with a dog and i dont even know if it's fake. that's how weird homestuck looks from the outside to me
Funny, that's actually less stupid than what actually happened.
2 years ago
Anonymous
One of the characters fused her (dead) alternate self with her (male) dog as a way of bringing that alternate self back to life. Later the first one died and the alternate one became the main one.
There had been fanon jokes that because if the fusion, she now had a dog dick.
Years later - they decided to make that true, and partially from loneliness and partially from feelings of still wanting to be a mother but lacking the necessary equipment, decides to approach another character to have her be a surrogate mother so she can have a kid.
Now the more fricked up part is that the surrogate mother is (lesbian-interspecies) married to a third character - and no one tells her - the surrogate goes away of a trip to deliver the baby (alien wife not really understanding human pregnancy, making it a lot easier to hide) and then they hide the child from everyone else in the cast for 18 years.
And the most fricked up thing is that they name her Yiffy.
2 years ago
Anonymous
What is even worse, they're all gods with god-like creation abilities. They could easily make the baby without pregnancy, but for some reason the writers wanted to live out their cuck fantasies
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Homestuck...the fandom is slowly eating itself on twitter and on aco, there are no promises of any more content, even the video game might not be completed thanks to bad management. Another piece of media that meant a lot to me growing up, but I can't make myself care about now. The thrill of an upd8, or seeing the thousands of new fan art posted daily, was unmatched.
Truly a great loss for the ages, the potential this had diminished so slowly yet visibly it was agonizing to witness, now its just a cruel joke. At least theres some nice art and fan comics from time to time.
Just finding people without tribal shit coming up is hard now. With tumbler's death I've found it hard to find communities and artists to actually engage with and and as a result I'm not feeling that hype or seeing people's takes i hadn't thought of myself. Forget the Likes, i miss engagement.
Ironically, as much as Tumblr represented the morons we like to b***h about, people i engaged with were much better at keeping their personal shit and their galleries separate. I don't think I ever even once ran into people screaming their political opinion at me on that site. Unlike Twitter.
I just miss getting excited about stuff and drawing, man.
2 years ago
Anonymous
For as much as people liked to shit on tumblr it was a pretty good gallery site and the recommendation system was top notch, if you didnt search for political shit there theres good chances you'd never see it.
The same cant be said about twitter.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>For as much as people liked to shit on tumblr it was a pretty good gallery site and the recommendation system was top notch
That and it was great for searching shit up in archives.
2 years ago
Anonymous
the problem with tumblr wasn't tumblr, it was the people who lived on tumblr.
reddit has a similar problem, except the site itself is also pretty shit.
Cinemaphiles not much better, but at least its not a fricking gaia online style forum
controversial take but agreed, fandoms can produce great content but what they are a fan of will always be better and can be safely enjoyed without the fandom at all.
Update: the guy had to scrap it because life got in the way as well.
I'm thinking of asking him to take it over and perhaps try to make it a straight fan continuation. I wanted to see how Mina becomes what she was in the future.
It's horrible you can't even properly discuss the show here most of the time. Those ESL weeb homosexuals always disrupt what little discussion happens.
It's pretty hard for dedicated Ron's Gone Wrong fans to find each other. No coomer material in it, I guess. Made one friend over discord cause of it, who's french and talks to me via google translate.
There there's the Danger Mouse reboot, which was very active here in late 2015 / early 2016 when it first aired, but then totally died when everyone realised it wasn't that good of a show. It had a minor rebound a few years later with some roleplaying anon command threads of like 7 posters, something that became a forced meme / in-joke and now I just find it annoying whenever it's brought up cause I know it's just one underageb& anon on here that does it.
>when everyone realised it wasn't that good of a show
Most people agree the Danger Mouse is one of the few legitimately decent and well-animated reboots that actually made an effort instead of shitting all over the original. Why be contrarian about something so- >some roleplaying anon command threads of like 7 posters, something that became a forced meme / in-joke and now I just find it annoying whenever it's brought up cause I know it's just one underageb& anon on here that does it.
Oh, duckulagay. Opinion discarded.
>7 posters
If you weren't there you don't realize how big he was (relative to how dead danger mouse threads were) at the time, it was extremely fleeting but there were like 70 posters including drawgays who actually bothered to make fanart. Sometimes we still can get up to 40 purely from anons who are like "idk what this show is but I know it coz of the dog". And I'm saying that as someone who got major second hand cringe from everything he posted
So idk I'd doubt all Ianon references are the same guy forcing it. There's gonna be a few people who remember it. But I do know exactly what annoying meme-forcing underagegay you're thinking of who's an absolute plague upon danger mouse threads. I know he has a name but I refuse to use it because it just feeds his ego and motivates him to continue being obnoxious. Not duckula, the other one. T.b.h Cinemaphile needs to stop giving random anons identities in the first place. Defeats the point of the site and only encourages their shitty antics, it's like tripgayging but for pussies
Also you could never say the danger mouse fandom is dead when trial of commitment is still going lol
>Opens up book and looks over dead fandomss. >Ballmastrz: 9009 >Superjaill! >Ugly Americans >ReBoot >Pucca
Now these ones aren't Cinemaphile but I'll still list them. >Rayman >Thief >Shadow of the Beast(I think this would also work well as an animated series in the vein of Primal)
Its a very simple game, the first one. The second one is good too, and the third becomes a more traditional and proper platformer. Great music for both, but if you ever play a copy, play the Sega CD Version of Shadow of the Beast II.
It has some fricking rad cutscenes, better graphics and music, and even spoken dialogue.
Yeah usually every show after finale has less than 4 or so months until the threads become a trickle. Then you get to the point to where it's like 3 autists making threads that barely get bumped just so people will still remember said cartoon.
Robot and Monster. There was Russian chick on VK still making fanart for a private group. It came to a halt with the war in Ukraine. Only one person has posted in the last 2 months, a girl wishing everyone well.
The English side was never alive, and the Russian side is now dead.
I'll never forget staying up till 6am for those new episodes and the super comfry threads. It was fun, we had great discussions and tons of drawfriends and I'm pretty sure some titmouse staff too. I got a kiazuki pin from one of the people who worked on the show and I can't find it, makes me super bummed 🙁
Frick man, I wish things would die. Like the Urusei Yatsura Fandom. Shit so sad they have to start making videos about how Urusei Yatsura is ""underrated"" or some bullshit to get peoples attention. Plus moronic Black folk who insert there shit politics into it. I hate this whole terrible hierarchy they use too. The Discord servers are the worst. Also and morons can't talk about the negatives about the media they watch without thinking that you're talking shit about the thing they like.
I think this would've been way more widely remembered if it had been allowed to be finished to completion and was aired consistently throughout the run. I enjoyed it but I totally get why it's been forgotten.
It's a little hard to explain what the Lion King fandom was like if you weren't there, but it all involved pretty tight-knit groups of friends using the tools the old Internet, chatrooms and personal fansites and message boards. There were even MUCKS, IRC channels, and the mailing list. A lot of those things are still around even now, but they are just empty ghosts of their former selves. Trying to reconnect with those old communities today feels like you're just speaking into the void.
Holy shit you're old. Just kiding tho it's always fascinating to hear about this things. Somehow the thought of the Lion King having a fandom in the 90's never crossed my head for some dumb reason
I can think of two fujoshits that have created the bulk of fanart and fanfics. The former was alright, but steadily got too tumblr in their designs. Latter is utter garbage both in content with their self insert with Duke and skill wise an author. It has zero quality smutfics on all sites possible
I think what he means is that it's a mess of tropes that don't died out in the late 90s and early 2000s. Like characters constantly talking to the camera and obvious twist villains, and gimmicky bad guys with no depth.
>fujoshi >has a self-insert and ships herself with one character
These are separate things. "Fujoshi" are just the women who are way too into yaoi, it doesn't mean "any female fan"
Those low quality dubs of the tumblr page were my introduction to Homestuck. thanks to it I kinda surviwed a hellish Middle Shcool. With it I went to early high school years. It made me laugh it made me cry. Fan comics, Sadstuck, Dubs. Then I started opening up to others (I landed in awsome class). And I kinda forgot abaut it. Maybe I didn't need it anymore Im out of high school now and I remember these time so fondly MY RP as Grand Highboob. My firs and only erp on discord.... Going out of my porn addiction. Homestuck was there. Now its gone. Like so many things I remember. A Past that is completely diffrent country now. But I still remember HER. and Violet Prince.
This hits closer to home than i'd like to admit. Though for me it was flunking out of college and HSG/Homestuck fandom softening the blow. And the dear friends I found through it, some I have to this day, some I lost forever. It was something unique.
Surprisingly this, been on Cinemaphile over 13 years now and this always had Cinemaphile threads non-stop when I clicked on here every now and then. Nowadays I maybe see something once in a blue moon. I'm sure if I check archived threads there would be more but there is none up at the moment, and for something as big as homosuck to not have any threads ATM is weird to me.
Megas XLR
Martin Mystery
Kappa Mikey
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
The Life and Times of Juniper Lee
W.I.T.C.H
Sheep in the Big City
Time Squad
Rockos' Modern Life
Mucha Lucha
Secret Saturdays
I Am Weasel
Evil con carne
It is nothing but pain, broseph.
Nobody ever talks about them and nobody watched them and nobody have them on DVD for some reason.
There is close to nothing new fanart and shit is pretty ded.
Not even hentai and that is the key Health indicator of a fandom.
>Not even hentai and that is the key Health indicator of a fandom.
hihi puffy has (had?) a lot of yuri porn
for obvious reasons, ami and yumi are the definition of opposites attract
I remember being made fun of by some girls in some elementary school theatre class thing when I suggested we do something from kappa mikey instead of usher like they wanted to
You know seeing the shitshow modern fandoms have all become I think I'll enjoy being one of the only 4 people on the planet to enjoy my favorite Cinemaphile related thing.
The world genuinely became worse off the second Homestuck and My Little Pony's fandoms became a fraction of what they used to be. We need these autism traps to drag schizos into so they waste their time writing Petstuck fanfiction instead of throwing bricks through senators windows.
The Pink Panther. It's rarely shown on Boomerang anymore and barely anybody I know discusses it. That's a damn shame to because the Pink Panther is one of my all time favorite cartoons. Woody Woodpecker is in this strange purgatory. They made a movie a few years ago but practically nobody watched it and it might as well not exist. Mighty Mouse, Atom Ant, and Secret Squirrel are non-entities nowadays sadly. Fondly remembered but nobody's really doing anything with those properties. Rocky and Bullwinkle is on the strange boat where they keep getting content but nobody really seems to pay attention. They had a geico commercial a year or two ago which was nice to see but I doubt anybody really young recognized them. Screwy Squirrel is a severely underrated Tex Avery creation that needs a revival. David Weiss' creations in Cow and Chicken and I Am Weasel are rarely acknowledged by CN despite the fact a lot of people fondly remember them.
i lie those old disney shows like recess and fillmore!, but every thread for them is some edgy shit like 'i bet [female character] went into porn
and i still like steven universe. everything these days sells itself on being woke, but SU wa the only one where i really felt like they had their hearts in it instead of pandering to the millenials
Is the Redwall netflix show dead now?
I probably wouldn't even watch it but at least it'd get people talking about it again, I've been reading through the series and it got me really interested in discussing it
Does it count if you joined the fandom when it was dead, or if it perpetually is in a dead state even if something comes out?
Like the 12 ox Mouse fandom
As discussed earlier, what is annoying is people treating it as some automatic thing. I personally think its possible to be a fan of something and not be "a member of the fandom."
I'm a fanartist but I never joined one of those discord servers because such concentrated autism scares me
It's not that complex to me, if you like something you could call yourself a fan of it (or if you like something enough to "follow" what's going on with it, if that makes sense). The dumb issue is how being a fan and the idea of fandom aren't seen as separate now. You're assumed to be part of that tribe even if you've never interacted with it. For example, I grew up with Sonic games, AoStH, and the OVA. I enjoy those (the bad ones in a B movie sort of way). I literally never interacted with any online fans, since was a sheltered kid with fearmongering parents. But try saying "I'm a fan of Sonic" now. Note all the connotations that come with that now.
oh my god you autist
if you like something you're a fan of it, jesus christ
I disagree, there's a difference between liking something and having an interest in it
2 years ago
Anonymous
im siding with him. being a fan, and being in the fandom aren't the same thing. the latter implies participation, the former is literally just watching the show on purpose.
i am a fan of bagels. i eat them when there are other options i could select
2 years ago
Anonymous
I'm not a fan of Big City Greens because I don't want to see Gloria fat and immobile or lick her feet, got it
2 years ago
Anonymous
Are you purposely misunderstanding this post?
It's not that complex to me, if you like something you could call yourself a fan of it (or if you like something enough to "follow" what's going on with it, if that makes sense). The dumb issue is how being a fan and the idea of fandom aren't seen as separate now. You're assumed to be part of that tribe even if you've never interacted with it. For example, I grew up with Sonic games, AoStH, and the OVA. I enjoy those (the bad ones in a B movie sort of way). I literally never interacted with any online fans, since was a sheltered kid with fearmongering parents. But try saying "I'm a fan of Sonic" now. Note all the connotations that come with that now.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Are you purposely moronic?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>he doesn't adopt the tribal cult Fandom model >small group of enjoyers >everyone can draw and more >dedicated archival network hidden in a web of old forums, only using discord to organize goal oriented efforts >literal spy networks in the industry >esoteric bent, not schizo, just awakened
2 years ago
Anonymous
I said that. >or if you like something enough to "follow" what's going on with it
I do. It's not enough
I sort of get where you're coming from then, sorry about that. I personally can't relate to people who don't want to create, if I want to express my like for something I just go for it or else I feel emotionally constipated and antsy. Not getting affirmation does suck, but I'd rather be in this boat than stuck with those people who didn't even like my art for the right reasons.
im siding with him. being a fan, and being in the fandom aren't the same thing. the latter implies participation, the former is literally just watching the show on purpose.
i am a fan of bagels. i eat them when there are other options i could select
I'd go a step further and say "fandom" is participation in a certain circle. There are loads of times I've seen people claim "the fandom is dead!" but if you go to Japanese twitter it never "died." But even then it's more like "circles," I'd say. There are groups and niches who are at war and people who are metaphorical hermits like me who don't bother interacting with the others anymore and just post my own thing.
2 years ago
Anonymous
well, the Cinemaphile sides of a fandom and thetumblr sides can be very different for instance. alothugh i suppose they do feed off each other a bit.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Yeah, and some can never even interact. Like for instance a little meme that never escapes the Japanese fans of an anime.
I've love Ava's Demon since Cinemaphile started talking about it years and years ago. Now no one talks about it, or makes fan art which is a tragedy to me. The few who remain are tumblrite homosexuals. I miss Ava so much
Fairly Oddparents. Was probably one of the biggest cartoon fandoms on the 00s internet, but year after year of poor decision and Hartman frickery nurtured a fanbase of doomers and now its a shell of a shell of its former self.
Eighter a Redneck boy with identity crisis after watching all those Lost Cause DEBUNKED videos So now is hostile to this whole Southern Pride criticism. Or a kid from big city with identity crisis(who is propably gay) who seaks to channel his frustations on statues of dead guys. Which one is worse is up to you.
>comic runs for 10 years >plenty of people like and support it >barely any fanart during and after comic >no fan discussion since comic ended >no good porn
Sad. At least the creator still posts art from time to time.
Cartoon fandoms at least get some trickle and can spark discussion years later, being a comic fan of old, non big-two comics is suffering. There is just no discussion to be had anywhere.
Commission mountains of weird fetish porn, so that when people think of the fetish, they inadvertently have to associate the character with it
And like, we’re talking *weird* you can’t just be another scrub going for futa or musclegirl porn
You haven't been to web 1.0 if you haven't read a Disneyfan1 fanfic MST3K'd by Neverhood fancharacters in series of Livejournal posts, linked from probably now defunct forums.
I’m pretty much the only person I know of that makes content for Regular Show. I see people post clips and occasional fanart but the fandom isn’t really there besides that. It’s just me…
Penn Zero is really underrated and deserve more love
Yo-kai Watch English Side of the fandom have been really low after YW Blasters and Season 3 of the anime and YW 3 is a rare 3ds game (Lucky I have a physical copy and if you spending money on the eshop I RECOMMEND IT!)
i thought it was the irony that captain planet's message was coming from a mega corporation that was somehow complicit in the activities captain planet was fighting
And? That doesn't make Captain planet less preachy, just because another show is equally preachy.
Even then, that was a PSA mad after the show ended. Captain planet was all PSA, nothing else.
MLP, saw when it started to decay after the whole twilicorn happened and slowly snowballed into a big frickfest that i had to cut off a lot of people i met. Mainly stay for the amazing fanart because it tooked me back when things where simple, i couldn't completely quit but none the less the show and fandom was dead to me.
>it started to decay after the whole twilicorn happened
Has there ever been a fandom to see such a rapid and non-stop decline after a single change in a single episode?
I genuinely don't think I've ever seen one decision have so many destructive knock-on effects on every aspect of a show's quality.
Ever After High, W.I.T.C.H, 6Teen and Angel's Friends.
The latter is even more special to me because it's an obscure bad Italian cartoon from the Winx era. I have watched both seasons and the movie. Definition of wasted potential. Wish I had more people autistic enough to care.
>Oban Star Racers >Dragon Booster >Bob and George
There are more but those are some things I look fondly back upon and feel remorse that they don't get enough love.
If this was in Cinemaphile I could give a whole lot more. It's always sad to consider great stories that have concluded and fade in people's memories, while the next generation of media-goers never get the chance to enjoy these pieces of art.
Big guy and rusty boy robot.
there's just about nothing for this show and it makes me sad, even when i was back in school watching reruns no-one else would watch it because it was "just worse astroboy" which had just reached Australian shores.
Legend Quest was a show with great potential and a small comfy fanbase. Too bad it was rebooted an downgraded instead of being given a proper second season. I feel like that really killed whatever small fanbase there was. That and having no news from this franchise for about 3 years.
>. Too bad it was rebooted an downgraded instead of being given a proper second season
masters of myth wasnt bad at all
and the lineless art was an upgrade
The art style thing might just be me. I liked the look of the first series better, but the show was good anyway. I just feel like the fact is a reboot sours it a lot for me since I expected a proper follow up to the first season.
>. Too bad it was rebooted an downgraded instead of being given a proper second season
masters of myth wasnt bad at all
and the lineless art was an upgrade
The art style thing might just be me. I liked the look of the first series better, but the show was good anyway. I just feel like the fact is a reboot sours it a lot for me since I expected a proper follow up to the first season.
Yeah, I mean, both shows were fine, but the rebooting was kind of unnecessary.
I mean, now we know Mexico can do a good lore show.
Because you made a point I already answered, I'm treating you like a child, you see. Why would I need to make another argument for something I already answered?
>he hasn't read pinky and pepper
There was a story time up a couple of days ago. You HAVE to read it. It's one of the greatest piece of surrealism in the past decade
>reading books is white supremacy
do these people not realize that doesn't make people not want to read books, it makes them think, hmm maybe white supremacy ain't so bad
They are, since they pretty have been going "thats not real" when someone talks about their own experience. Or just waving it off as no big deal if it did happen. I just like bringing up the shit that happened, remember the keystone motel thing? or the homestucks spitting into a bucket? good times
Yeah, anon must have a shitton blacklisted online or maybe is one ofnthe ones lucky enough to fit in with the mob themselves. Or y'know, a troll. I don't see the point in going into a thread to tell people they're wrong about something. If there's one thing I've learned, its that you can never change anyone's mind. Ever. It's about as smart a move as going into a thread for a specific fetish and telling everyone there you think they're disgusting. >Homestuck
I admit I tried to get into Homestuck but couldn't. I like some of the ideas in it though. So I only heard of things from afar.
Homestuck was very hard to get into, I watched from afar for two years before finally giving in. Took me two weeks to catch up in 2013, so I imagine now it'll be around a month to fully digest it. I say you dodged a bullet.
>keystone motel
Oh, it took a minute for me to remember this. Man, that was embarrassing. I used to be a somewhat active drawgay in the sug threads. To this day I wonder if people remember me, I honestly just completely ran out of ideas as the show was reaching its end. And Cinemaphile got way too coomer for my tastes, so I only visit here once every so often.
What's some of your work? I kept an eye on the sug threads in their prime. Never posted much, funny I draw more SU stuff now than when it was on tv.
And I get the coomer stuff too, it just doesn't appeal to me as much, picking up where some plot lines and lore left off is way more fun imo
My nickname there was "grapegarden", most people knew me for my Roses. I drew both PearlRose and GregRose fluff too. I just found a bunch of my drawings from then the other day so I was reminiscing on that. Even with all the reveals I'm still basically a Rose apologist, and current sug hates that (from what I've seen whenever I take a peek it's nothing but cooming and arguing now). I'm not even a prude (hey, I like cheeky stuff now and then) but man the internet is always at 100% now, huh.
Huh, cant recall the name, but I'm sure if I saw your art I would remember.
Yeah, Rose isn't everyone's favorite anymore, but I'm not going to bash someone for liking her. The threads are more about waifus and rather Steven is a cuck or not. I wished they would make some comics about Steven travelling, so there's actually discussion to be had.
2 years ago
Anonymous
No problem. Here is a funni Garnet I did circa 2015 that I found >I'm not going to bash someone for liking her
Thanks for being cool, anon. You know, that does kind of connect to the fandom subject again. Nowadays if you say you like something, people will assume or ask what "faction" of the fandom you're from. The same applies to characters themselves, too. If you say you like a character, now you're assumed to agree with everything the character does/says, rather than just gave sympathy for them. Obviously you can like a character without thinking they never made a mistake, but apparently on the internet that's impossible. It even seems like something people claim themselves out of insecurity, like the "did nothing wrong" memes when a character obviously fricked up. >balloon animal arm
Very cute! And I agree, Steven being a sort of wandering hero has potential. Though I did want some resolution to his opinion of Rose that wasn't "lol I hate her now." Really sould have shut up sug.
2 years ago
Anonymous
lol, its no big deal man, cute drawing! >"did nothing wrong" memes
The internet has been insufferable since that meme was created, I miss liking a morally evil or gray character and not trying to convince everyone they're actually a misunderstood angel. >Though I did want some resolution to his opinion of Rose that wasn't "lol I hate her now."
You know, that is the biggest gripe I have with Future, he can give every else a benefit of the doubt, but his mom is now the bane of his existence? He can't even get along with the gems that resembled her (this goes for the unbubbled rose quartz and the diamonds) without treating them like family he doesn't want to interact with unless he is having problems with his powers When people say Steven is buddy buddy with the diamonds I'm quick to remember he doesn't care for them in any way.
>Homestuck was very hard to get into
That's one of the reasons why I never bothered with it, the other being every single fan of it without fail is some obnoxious troon and/or roastie so I assumed the content was probably shit
>obnoxious troon and/or roastie
That is the majority of the fandom now, acts 1-4 were decent, but it all went down hill in 5 onward. Sucks that the OG website it premiered on is broken now, doesn't help with the lack of readability.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I saw it collected in a comic at a bookstore though, can't be that hard to get into.
>keystone motel
Oh, it took a minute for me to remember this. Man, that was embarrassing. I used to be a somewhat active drawgay in the sug threads. To this day I wonder if people remember me, I honestly just completely ran out of ideas as the show was reaching its end. And Cinemaphile got way too coomer for my tastes, so I only visit here once every so often.
I can't believe that Keystone Motel shit was 7 years ago. God, that was cringe. And that wasn't even the worse thing the fandom did that year. They also harassed that one artist for drawing a character too skinny.
>tfw can't interact with any fandoms because i either have nothing to say but "i liked it", or i have ideas/theories strong enough i want to steal them for my own stories rather than sharing them
I totally understand that last bit, but with my original stories. Would love to get proper feedback from people without the fear of it all getting yoinked by someone popular who then accuses me of stealing.
For those wondering why fandoms die here are the stages.
>1) The show ends.
The reality is that most people only like what is currently popular, so once a show ends most people will leave and go on to something else. This means that people who produce fan content will get less attention making things about this show so they'll switch to whatever is currently popular. This is why shows that seemed to have huge fanbases disintegrate fairly rapidly.
>2) The show's initial popularity brings in a new audience.
While most people are not watching the show if it was popular or was one of the best in its genre people will find about about it and watch it. If they enjoy it they'll make join the fandom and may produce fan art. In this stage there is new content but at a much slower rate. An example is Avatar, which despite ending in 2008 has remained popular.
>3) The show fades away.
Due to the reduced rate of new fans watching this show almost no new content is produced. This eventually leads to people being unaware of the show or ignoring it because there are newer shows that they consider better. At this point unless the show is rebooted the fandom is effectively dead. An example is every show that was good but no one talks about because there are newer shows that are as good or better.
So the length of time it takes a fandom to die depends upon: >How popular it was in stage 1. The more popular it was the more fan art they'll be and the higher the chance people will find out about it. >How similar it is to other shows in stage 2. If the show was about something most newer shows are not then people will watch it simply because it will be the best in that particular category. >How able people are to watch this show in stage 3. If it's difficult to find people may not even know it exists.
>An example is Avatar, which despite ending in 2008 has remained popular.
there's still new official content, like Korra, the comics, and an entire studio dedicated for making movies based on it.
Fricking good. Just let it go back to obscurity. I love these movies but God damn the zoomer screeching is terrible. >no r34 of Wylde
Heathens. The lot of you
Fricking good. Just let it go back to obscurity. I love these movies but God damn the zoomer screeching is terrible. >no r34 of Wylde
Heathens. The lot of you
The saying that childhood is the best enhancer of bad cgi rings true in this series. And yet I still remember watching those movies over and over on a pirated DVDs.
>comics and cartoons you enjoy that produce no fan content, hardly get discussed, never get updates, etc.
It's a shame Onyx Equinox never got more love. It would have had a chance it it had been any streaming service but Crunchyroll.
I didn't even realize Baby Blues was a cartoon until I was like 19 despite reading it since I was 8. Still haven't watched the show though, is it any good?
Your pic doesn't make sense. Fandoms are the worst, the world would be better off without them. Squidward should be happy.
weird coming from the coomer board, you would be nothing without fanart
This, the obsession with the "community" aspect is wrong.
>the obsession with the "community" aspect is wrong.
what do you mean?
nta but if it wasn't for die hard community there wouldn't be any fanart, leads, porn, or fanfiction. Cancerous people aside im grateful because I ain't making all that shit myself
and nothing of value would be lost
*everything
Also not him, but "listening to the fans" dilutes creative vision and is really just design-by-committee by another name
I'm the anon you replied to, and what I've noticed is a severe issue with people thinking everything needs a "community," and not in a healthy way. How many times have you seen "what killed the hype?" and "I am forgotten ..." whenever something hasn't been talked about on Cinemaphile for a few milliseconds? It's all this consuming, "someone has to be talking about this, I cant just go watch it on my own" stance. For people who do create fanart like myself, it's weird too, because people treat your work as if it were made "for the fandom." You're seen as "contributing to the fandom" now instead of just making art for yourself that happens to be online. See also people who say "I'm leaving/joining the fandom" or "the fandom is dying" - you can just be a fan of something, no need for this weird automatic fandom membership thing. Y'know?
>How many times have you seen "what killed the hype?" and "I am forgotten ..." whenever something hasn't been talked about on Cinemaphile for a few milliseconds? It's all this consuming, "someone has to be talking about this, I cant just go watch it on my own" stance.
THIS holy shit, I've been saying this for fricking ages. Cinemaphile is full of terminally online zoomers who think something not having a 24/7 general on the front page means nobody knows or cares about it and they start hailing it as le underrated overlooked forgotten hidden gem. I think it's partially where all these schizos are coming from, because the cartoon or comic they like gets doomed about so much they feel a 'duty' to 'save' it from being forgotten when that's not even the case. Danger Mouse was already brought up and it's a good example. It's one of the most iconic British series of all time, the reboot racked up millions of views when it aired making it the most watched show on CBBC, it had a relatively recent merch drop, shitloads of people are still watching it and the original on Netflix to this day, even the channel being axed doesn't really mean anything in the long run since you can still stream it and most people already were. But because some imageboard autists aren't constantly discussing it, anons act like it's dead. It's such a moronic mindset that you can't enjoy this thing anymore because gays on the internet moved on or aren't pumping out memes and fanfic at the same rate they used to, but I guess fandoms are inherently moronic. Enjoy a show for yourself, not for others. Frick Duckulagay though, he's not just part of but also more of a problem than the imaginary 'underageb&' living in his head rent free.
>but I guess fandoms are inherently moronic. Enjoy a show for yourself, not for others.
I have reached this point too. Not to mention I've had to deal with coming across as super controlling because the fandom for something I'm recommending to them is full of nasty shit (and google's tendency to put major spoilers front and center thanks to pageviews).
>Duckulagay
To be honest, I only come here once in a blue moon, so I'm not up to speed on all the gossip. Cinemaphile has a funny way of flanderizing its own anons though (had it happen to me myself) so I do tend to take "this anon sucks" talk with a grain of salt until I see it myself.
>where all these schizos are coming from
As an artist, I think the problem started when tumblr and twitter started. Social media gained this format of a constant flow, like a river you have to stay afloat (relevant) in. And that only got faster and faster. People got impatient. The gallery/personal webpage format? No more time for that. Artist's descriptions? They don't wanna see that anymore, consume consume consume. And on top of that came Netflix and the whole binge format, which is an essay's worth of trouble. You are expected to "keep up" a an unreasonable pace. "Be on top of things." Notice how so much is about talking about the ending, the ending, the ending, not the journey. It's because everything relies on shock, so it gets that sweet online attention. Anyway, I'm getting off-track.
>Not to mention I've had to deal with coming across as super controlling because the fandom for something I'm recommending to them is full of nasty shit
That sucks. Most people I know take the hint if I mention not to touch the fandom with a ten foot pole.
>so I do tend to take "this anon sucks" talk with a grain of salt until I see it myself.
He's far from the worst this board has to offer, he's just an annoying sperg who occasionally shits his pants over a dead dude.
>I think the problem started when tumblr and twitter started. Social media gained this format of a constant flow, like a river you have to stay afloat (relevant) in. And that only got faster and faster. People got impatient. The gallery/personal webpage format? No more time for that. Artist's descriptions? They don't wanna see that anymore, consume consume consume. And on top of that came Netflix and the whole binge format, which is an essay's worth of trouble. You are expected to "keep up" a an unreasonable pace. "Be on top of things." Notice how so much is about talking about the ending, the ending, the ending, not the journey. It's because everything relies on shock, so it gets that sweet online attention.
Yeah, there it is. I think you hit the nail on the head.
I noticed it as far back as 2010/2011 when everyone I knew was abandoning their deviantART accounts for tumblr. I only gave in because the fact that no one would leave comments on my art anymore got so lonely and frustrating. I figured that if I did cave in and make an account, at least I'd get comments again (even if they would be in a weird format). So I did. But the silence was still there ... unless I drew fanart, and only fanart of what is most popular at the time (for instance, if I still liked something but everyone else had moved on, tough breasts). It wasn't hip to comment on artwork anymore, and I remember the tumblr controversy of people actually removing artist's descriptions because "it didn't fit the aesthetic of my blog." Even today, people don't give a shit about original art unless it's super in-your-face (cough coomerish cough). Only then will they ask questions, otherwise they can't be bothered to take the time.
They can't remove your description if you put it on a pic.
I know that's the case now, but in the past it wasn't and that's legitimately what would happen
Frick...consumerism has killed the life out of media. Now everything has to trend or else its forgotten and garbage.
You mean "or else its 'forgotten' and 'garbage.'c
Mmm, yeah. Zombie fandoms are a plague because of that sentiment, nothing kills me inside quite like an obligation to keep the fire going 24/7. Worst part is when artificially keeping it alight extinguishes interest forever.
Name 5 zombie fandoms I have literally never heard of this
Gravity Falls
Centaurworld
Sonic
Are Simpsons and Family Guy cheating?
neither of those are zombie fandoms, maybe centaurwolrd, but definitely not the rest
Homestuck
My life as a Teenage Robot
Kim Possible
Randy Cunningham 9th grade Ninja
Generator Rex
>My life as a Teenage Robot
this one is good,though
more people ought to watch it
every so often theres a jenny thirst thread
My issue as I said earlier is the concept of "fandom" to begin with
This thread is oddly therapeutic. I felt like for the past year or so I've had to keep participating and talking and posting to be a "real" fan of /mlp/, or at least, to keep it alive.
Its actually really sucked the enjoyment out of things.
>nothing kills me inside quite like an obligation to keep the fire going 24/7. Worst part is when artificially keeping it alight extinguishes interest forever.
Perfect summary.
I came back to it after Twilicorn a year or two ago now, and I think I should just browse boorus for art and read fics on fimfiction now and then. Discussing it feels really kind of pointless now.
It was magical, truly amazing.
The rot was already seeping in when Twilight had a brother out of nowhere, but yeah, >wings really made shit hit the fan.
>being a fan of pre-G4 MLP
There is a thread now and then but it can slide off pretty fast. Its sad.
I never got to watch the show in its heyday. Did it ever get better after S03?
The fandom never fully recovered from its loss of innocence.
>Did it ever get better after S03?
As a whole, no. There are still good episodes after S3, but as time goes on, less and less, more average or mediocre, then just outright bad. By S8-9, mainly bad.
Its still a great show for the most part, but S1-2 were the peak. 3 as well if you're being generous.
>everything has to be about the ending
This has absolutely destroyed most longevity of discussion within fandoms. After a show ends, it’s all about the ending and other episodes are just left to rot, never to be brought up or have content made of them again.
>For people who do create fanart like myself, it's weird too, because people treat your work as if it were made "for the fandom." You're seen as "contributing to the fandom"
this, I made fanart and I got hate for it, and I thought to myself, you know this is free art and you're not entitled to it, I don't know what the frick goes through some people's mind on the internet
lol I hope you drew a frickton more of it to spite them
yes I didn't even bother replying to them, frick them
>and you're not entitled to it
I had so many people who liked my self-insert art. Then I found out they didn't give a shit about my own feelings that went into it and actually went as far as to project themselves over my existence (aka they were just coomers who wanted the same character rather than genuinely shipping it). I wizened up about posting art that was so deeply personal online in the first place, but man shit still hurt. I hate the "this is for me" mentality they have.
>Then I found out they didn't give a shit about my own feelings that went into it and actually went as far as to project themselves over my existence
lol, fricking moronic homosexual, why would you think anyone cares about you? Of course they don't care about you and just want what ever characters from the cartoon you are self inserting into. You most be a huge egotistical homosexual.
>I made fanart and I got hate for it
Ah, the age old story of getting death threats and being told to kys over dumb art. Reminds me of when it happened to a kid that made some steven universe that happened to be one bit too thin, I dont get why cartoons that spread a message of being kind get so many bonker psychos in their fandoms, same shit happened in Wonder Over Yander's.
Good post. Thanks for clarifying what you meant. Fandoms can be complete fricking cancer because it stops being about the show/movie/comic and starts becoming about the individuals in the fandom and keeping something "alive" after it's ran its course. That's probably why people always keep asking for things they like to come back (usually for the worse) instead of moving on to new things. It's not all bad but it can spiral out of control incredibly fast.
Look into the study of religion. Consumerism replaced zealots, so you unironically have the people who would have been afflicted with religious schizophrenia and a need to be part of a community and would partake in inquisitions, and now they're just the same phenotype of people who consume media obsessively. I'm dead serious and being very literal, just pay attention to the way people talk about it and pretend it's religious and it becomes very apparent what they're trying to replace.
>You're seen as "contributing to the fandom" now instead of just making art for yourself
I'm glad I'm not the only one going through this shit
I hate it. I hate it so much. I feel like a bitter old fart now that my stance is "It's not for you."
>What's wrong with that?
Putting said "fandom" above your own opinions and your own personal enjoyment. Not checking out something unless it has "an active fandom." That sort of thing is what I've been talking about.
>just fabricating
I've been speaking from personal experience the entire time, anon.
etc
>Not checking out something unless it has "an active fandom."
Fair enough, people who do that are just mentally ill. While something having an active fandom, usually in regards to something still airing, it can draw people who want to "be in" during the height of the fandom expierence but if your main attraction to a franchise is based on the parasocial, then yeah, that's obviously bad. Still, you're certainly exaggerating some aspects as well as extent in which other aspects exist
Explain how any of my statments suggest this? Or do you just not have an argument and you're resorting to putting your fingers in your ears
I'm not exaggerating anything. I'm talking about what I have seen, myself, across the internet and on Cinemaphile. You must be a very lucky anon to have not seen what's been mentioned here.
Fine you're misinterpreting then. The things you "see" are not only less common than you claim but also very less genuine than you seem to take them for. Quit trying force ignorance onto me simply because i disagree
>explains personal experiences exactly as they are, and so do other anons
>"you're making shit up"
>"you're exaggerating"
>"what you 'see'"
Holy gaslighting, Batman. If you downright refuse to believe anything I or other anons are saying, there's literally no point in talking to you anymore. I'm not going to bother at this point.
I'm disagreeing with how you see it. You're a moron. GG
>I disagree with your PERSONAL experience that I'm not a part of and wasn't there for
you're literally a moron
Sounds more like a classic case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder
so this is why there isn't an active ''doujin'' community in the west unlike in Japan, westoids think it's weird and cringe to be part of something for whatever reason.
>westoids think it's weird and cringe to be part of something for whatever reason
Not what I was talking about at all. I was talking about people treating your art as if you made it "for" them, no matter how personal it is. I do know of western circlejerks where they act like they all "share" the love of a character (fake waifugays, for lack of a better term). These types all "support" each other but underneath the surface they just want to be liked the most so they can be the one with the most affirmation. If you're not a haremgay like they are (though they'd never admit it) they cast you out. It's some form of toxic positivity cult mentality for sure.
>community
I don't want a community with modern people. They are trash, narcissistic clique obsessed losers.
Because it led to people assuming thing about you because if you like a show you must be like the rest of the "community". You also have homosexual who will act as the face of the "community" and talk for everyone. Also it creates way too many moronic console war bullshit and pointless drama.
This is a good point I forgot to mention too. Or when the fandom is infamous over some sort of war (ex. a "wholesome" ship vs a "problematic" ship for example, so say one wrong thing like "can we not demonize people" and you're branded a freak on their side) and you're actually in the rare "all of these frickers are obnoxious" boat. I hate the "face of the fandom" point too, usually they're just someone who was in the right place at the right time and is conveniently passive in their opinions so they have mass appeal, but now they get treated like an honorary staff member.
because people thinking liking a specific media a lot = a personality.
fpbp
>It's pretty hard for dedicated Ron's Gone Wrong fans to find each other. No coomer material in it, I guess. Made one friend over discord cause of it, who's french and talks to me via google translate.
kek, oddly heartwarming.
Big fandoms are the worst
Small fandoms are peak comfy
not if you hate everyone in the small one
fippy bippy
I come to Cinemaphile to talk about shows and share thoughts, art, and arguments with you anons. What's wrong with that? It's only natural to come to like a show and thus involve yourself in the "fandom" as in going into the threads regularly to discuss shit
I think anons here are talking about extreme cases, like
explained here. It's okay to like stuff passively, but some don't actually care about the community, they care about making it their personality.
I get what you're saying too, getting into a fandom, making friends, and creating together would be heavenly. But there's more wackos out there how rather just see artists like myself as a tool than a buddy
That's part of the fun sometimes. Sometimes I'll rewatch a show or watch an older show and go "I kinda want to talk to anons about this." but doing "i just watched [x]" and blah blah. Boards like these you got to make a more appealing thread. So you dig up old or contentious discussion just to get the ball rolling.
>they care about making it their personality.
I feel like those are fringe cases. This board more than others has quite a few nutcases—just look at the catalog—but doesn't make the concept of fandoms, if one can even seperate such a conception from the wider idea of enjoying a show and engaging with others who feel similarly, inherently bad. Also the fandom membership thing seems to just be a protest of how poor the threads or show have become. If you enjoy a show and often find yourself in the threads you are part of the fandom, at least on Cinemaphile. I think you guys are just fabricating these ideas that some people treat liking a show like a political opinion. Fortunately or unfortunately there isn't always readily avalible means of excersising your "fandomhood" like you can on othersites like r*ddit or t*mblr or d*scord or even tw*tter where discussion; sure you can scream into the void and make threads all day but with both anonymity and sand castles on a beach format of threads it's far different to contributions to a mega discussion dedicated to this franchise
>I think you guys are just fabricating
And I think you haven't been in shittier fandoms, but I suppose that's a good thing. Cinemaphile is different, the tribe shit was the most brain numbing experience, I'm so glad the main two shows doing that are ended or ending soon. It's getting harder to find people here who want to talk about niche shit, hell, even the OC creation threads barely hit bump limit. Fandoms sadly gotten so big finding a good conversation is like finding a pin in a hay barrel.
One good example of the political stuff is with nuHomestuck, if you like the post 2016 content that means you're a supporter of trans people or ship a certain ship, and can do no wrong. And if you don't, you're basically a pariah in the fandom. Or if you like Harry Potter, you're a huge terf racist or something. These issues stem from Tumblr and twitter, yes, but it makes it hard interacting with a wider fandom outside Cinemaphile.
I just wanna grill and talk about monster high and make funny fanart, doing it by myself seems to be my only option.
yeah I stopped browsing Cinemaphile when the tribe thing was spammed super hard
mostly cause I was just not watching any cartoons at all in that time frame but it certainly helped
everything i hear about homestuck makes it sound more and more insaney
i once got told it was a literal thought crime against the trans to still like harry potter. it's just a book/cartoon/webcomic you damn weirdos, not your whole personality
While HP was my childhood, I will yes I wouldn't go back and reread the books, I'll watch certain movies tho, they can be comfy. It's not amazing, but people acting like it wasn't a huge deal because JK acts like a middle-aged woman and liking it means you killed 500,000 trans people is hilarious to me.
Homestuck...the fandom is slowly eating itself on twitter and on aco, there are no promises of any more content, even the video game might not be completed thanks to bad management. Another piece of media that meant a lot to me growing up, but I can't make myself care about now. The thrill of an upd8, or seeing the thousands of new fan art posted daily, was unmatched.
>insaney
well the creator did try to sue a youtuber for...making a video about the horrible shit that happened in the fandom, so the fandom is just following his bad actions.
i read some kind of tumblr post about one of the characters having a baby with a dog and i dont even know if it's fake. that's how weird homestuck looks from the outside to me
>i read some kind of tumblr post about one of the characters having a baby with a dog and i dont even know if it's fake. that's how weird homestuck looks from the outside to me
Funny, that's actually less stupid than what actually happened.
One of the characters fused her (dead) alternate self with her (male) dog as a way of bringing that alternate self back to life. Later the first one died and the alternate one became the main one.
There had been fanon jokes that because if the fusion, she now had a dog dick.
Years later - they decided to make that true, and partially from loneliness and partially from feelings of still wanting to be a mother but lacking the necessary equipment, decides to approach another character to have her be a surrogate mother so she can have a kid.
Now the more fricked up part is that the surrogate mother is (lesbian-interspecies) married to a third character - and no one tells her - the surrogate goes away of a trip to deliver the baby (alien wife not really understanding human pregnancy, making it a lot easier to hide) and then they hide the child from everyone else in the cast for 18 years.
And the most fricked up thing is that they name her Yiffy.
What is even worse, they're all gods with god-like creation abilities. They could easily make the baby without pregnancy, but for some reason the writers wanted to live out their cuck fantasies
>Homestuck...the fandom is slowly eating itself on twitter and on aco, there are no promises of any more content, even the video game might not be completed thanks to bad management. Another piece of media that meant a lot to me growing up, but I can't make myself care about now. The thrill of an upd8, or seeing the thousands of new fan art posted daily, was unmatched.
Truly a great loss for the ages, the potential this had diminished so slowly yet visibly it was agonizing to witness, now its just a cruel joke. At least theres some nice art and fan comics from time to time.
Just finding people without tribal shit coming up is hard now. With tumbler's death I've found it hard to find communities and artists to actually engage with and and as a result I'm not feeling that hype or seeing people's takes i hadn't thought of myself. Forget the Likes, i miss engagement.
Ironically, as much as Tumblr represented the morons we like to b***h about, people i engaged with were much better at keeping their personal shit and their galleries separate. I don't think I ever even once ran into people screaming their political opinion at me on that site. Unlike Twitter.
I just miss getting excited about stuff and drawing, man.
For as much as people liked to shit on tumblr it was a pretty good gallery site and the recommendation system was top notch, if you didnt search for political shit there theres good chances you'd never see it.
The same cant be said about twitter.
>For as much as people liked to shit on tumblr it was a pretty good gallery site and the recommendation system was top notch
That and it was great for searching shit up in archives.
the problem with tumblr wasn't tumblr, it was the people who lived on tumblr.
reddit has a similar problem, except the site itself is also pretty shit.
Cinemaphiles not much better, but at least its not a fricking gaia online style forum
controversial take but agreed, fandoms can produce great content but what they are a fan of will always be better and can be safely enjoyed without the fandom at all.
you first OP
G.I. Joe
Did this show even have a fandom outside this board after everyone found out about the creator?
Yeah.
Also this.
man I remember when this shit was all over the board
and this is now the first I've seen of it in like 3 years
kind of a surreal feel
It had its fifth anniversary last year.
Also, I was trying to work on a fan continuation with someone on the show's wiki.
Life got in the way, though. But I'm trying to get back in.
neat, more power to you
Update: the guy had to scrap it because life got in the way as well.
I'm thinking of asking him to take it over and perhaps try to make it a straight fan continuation. I wanted to see how Mina becomes what she was in the future.
It's horrible you can't even properly discuss the show here most of the time. Those ESL weeb homosexuals always disrupt what little discussion happens.
Theyr'e the ones making the threads half the time too.
It's pretty hard for dedicated Ron's Gone Wrong fans to find each other. No coomer material in it, I guess. Made one friend over discord cause of it, who's french and talks to me via google translate.
There there's the Danger Mouse reboot, which was very active here in late 2015 / early 2016 when it first aired, but then totally died when everyone realised it wasn't that good of a show. It had a minor rebound a few years later with some roleplaying anon command threads of like 7 posters, something that became a forced meme / in-joke and now I just find it annoying whenever it's brought up cause I know it's just one underageb& anon on here that does it.
I would like a good old Danger Mouse thread too, but they never get enough posters anymore.
>when everyone realised it wasn't that good of a show
Most people agree the Danger Mouse is one of the few legitimately decent and well-animated reboots that actually made an effort instead of shitting all over the original. Why be contrarian about something so-
>some roleplaying anon command threads of like 7 posters, something that became a forced meme / in-joke and now I just find it annoying whenever it's brought up cause I know it's just one underageb& anon on here that does it.
Oh, duckulagay. Opinion discarded.
I don’t know whether he’s talking about Duckulagay, Ianon or Calvin.
pretty sure one of the main girls is a streamer girl
>7 posters
If you weren't there you don't realize how big he was (relative to how dead danger mouse threads were) at the time, it was extremely fleeting but there were like 70 posters including drawgays who actually bothered to make fanart. Sometimes we still can get up to 40 purely from anons who are like "idk what this show is but I know it coz of the dog". And I'm saying that as someone who got major second hand cringe from everything he posted
So idk I'd doubt all Ianon references are the same guy forcing it. There's gonna be a few people who remember it. But I do know exactly what annoying meme-forcing underagegay you're thinking of who's an absolute plague upon danger mouse threads. I know he has a name but I refuse to use it because it just feeds his ego and motivates him to continue being obnoxious. Not duckula, the other one. T.b.h Cinemaphile needs to stop giving random anons identities in the first place. Defeats the point of the site and only encourages their shitty antics, it's like tripgayging but for pussies
Also you could never say the danger mouse fandom is dead when trial of commitment is still going lol
I still browse /mlp/, the fandom is pretty much dead in the water, but I still browse out of habit.
What do they do know that g4 is officially over?
>Opens up book and looks over dead fandomss.
>Ballmastrz: 9009
>Superjaill!
>Ugly Americans
>ReBoot
>Pucca
Now these ones aren't Cinemaphile but I'll still list them.
>Rayman
>Thief
>Shadow of the Beast(I think this would also work well as an animated series in the vein of Primal)
>ReBoot
Sometimes anon...
Sometimes dead is better....
I know.
Oh.
The Legacy of Kain.
>Rayman
Good luck with the tidal wave of fujos when the new cartoon comes out
>Shadow of the Beast
I keep seeing this suggested to me? Is it worth playing through?
Its a very simple game, the first one. The second one is good too, and the third becomes a more traditional and proper platformer. Great music for both, but if you ever play a copy, play the Sega CD Version of Shadow of the Beast II.
It has some fricking rad cutscenes, better graphics and music, and even spoken dialogue.
There are many games not nearly as old as Thief that wished they had a community half as dedicated
>Superjail
I will never stop being a die-hard lover of that show. I never knew there was a "fandom" though.
>Ballmastrz: 9009
Season 1 is significantly better than season 2. I'll still watch Season 3 but there is no reason for it to exist.
Vee and her fans are the only people I can even think of who are keeping Ballmastrz fandom alive
Fricking love Ugly Americans, SuperJail, and BallMasters.
So glad I got to go to BallMasters Season 2 premier and meet the whole cast and some.
>dead fandomss.
>>Ugly Americans
>Ugly Americans
Same
I'd rather the fandom for my favorite show be dead instead of the monster it has become.
what show
I prefer no massive centralized fandom but casual fans who every once in a blue moon make content simply because they like it, like Hellboy.
Making Fiends
Wait until November. It'll be back on top.
Were less than 2 months past the finale and already running on fumes. The journal is only going to pump things up for like a week or two at most
Yeah usually every show after finale has less than 4 or so months until the threads become a trickle. Then you get to the point to where it's like 3 autists making threads that barely get bumped just so people will still remember said cartoon.
>5 threads right now
>Death
The owl house in the other hands is going to get forgotten as soon as the next cute lesbians appear
>owl house
who?
Robot and Monster. There was Russian chick on VK still making fanart for a private group. It came to a halt with the war in Ukraine. Only one person has posted in the last 2 months, a girl wishing everyone well.
The English side was never alive, and the Russian side is now dead.
Kind of surprised to see someone here who unironically likes the show.
Might I see some of her fan art?
Dangermouse is dumb
You forgot your pic squirrelgay
>Somehow turns into a DM thread
Heh
Not really, we're talking about the phenomenon in general
stop being a goddamn zombie!
>mfw a malaysian furgay show made on a Pentium II ends up being decent
soul, heart, passion - it had one of those.
voice acting is pretty miss, but season 1 is a treat, season 2 not so much
nope, cliffhanger, and last three episodes are completed but unable to find
no, that's Pike the jobber.
>bnuy
I will now watch your shitty cartoon
you'll like this one then
just realized what's happening in that gif
oof
relatable.
does this have a proper ending? I want to know before watching
Is that the fox from the Bad Guys?
why hello there fellow furry. You have found me something new to watch
I'll never forget staying up till 6am for those new episodes and the super comfry threads. It was fun, we had great discussions and tons of drawfriends and I'm pretty sure some titmouse staff too. I got a kiazuki pin from one of the people who worked on the show and I can't find it, makes me super bummed 🙁
Frick man, I wish things would die. Like the Urusei Yatsura Fandom. Shit so sad they have to start making videos about how Urusei Yatsura is ""underrated"" or some bullshit to get peoples attention. Plus moronic Black folk who insert there shit politics into it. I hate this whole terrible hierarchy they use too. The Discord servers are the worst. Also and morons can't talk about the negatives about the media they watch without thinking that you're talking shit about the thing they like.
All discord servers are gay, I don't know why anyone bothers with them
I know, but it was literally the only place you could talk about Urusei Yatsura that isn't some dead forum or reddit.
Dead show but damn I love it. The worst part is I didn't get into it until it ended so I don't even get to discuss it with anybody.
Didn't know Gorillaz had a show
Character isn't ugly enough to be Hewlett's
I think this would've been way more widely remembered if it had been allowed to be finished to completion and was aired consistently throughout the run. I enjoyed it but I totally get why it's been forgotten.
It's a little hard to explain what the Lion King fandom was like if you weren't there, but it all involved pretty tight-knit groups of friends using the tools the old Internet, chatrooms and personal fansites and message boards. There were even MUCKS, IRC channels, and the mailing list. A lot of those things are still around even now, but they are just empty ghosts of their former selves. Trying to reconnect with those old communities today feels like you're just speaking into the void.
Holy shit you're old. Just kiding tho it's always fascinating to hear about this things. Somehow the thought of the Lion King having a fandom in the 90's never crossed my head for some dumb reason
I know that some day it will actually officially be the end and then the last piece of my childhood will be laid to rest.
Rejoice in the fact that our childhoods were superior to those who did not enjoy the works of the Bros. Chaps.
The wakfu fandom is pretty much dead which is sad.
>We will never see Wakfu season 4
>There will never be a Dofus livre 2
It hurts Ankhama bros
They are still working on Season 4 and they are making a Wakfu game for pc and consoles too
I don't really like where they went with wakfu but not seeing a second dofus film is genuinely upsetting
the frick is this
Mighty Ducks the Animated Series
I can think of two fujoshits that have created the bulk of fanart and fanfics. The former was alright, but steadily got too tumblr in their designs. Latter is utter garbage both in content with their self insert with Duke and skill wise an author. It has zero quality smutfics on all sites possible
Fujoshits are a blight. And honest to frick, that show got cursed with it to some degree? That's terrifying.
The series was fun but it’s very much a show of its time. It’d be interesting if they ever chose to reboot it though.
>The series was fun but it’s very much a show of its time
And? Why would anyone not want to watch this because of that? Frick modern culture
I think what he means is that it's a mess of tropes that don't died out in the late 90s and early 2000s. Like characters constantly talking to the camera and obvious twist villains, and gimmicky bad guys with no depth.
>It’d be interesting if they ever chose to reboot it though.
They did the live action version.
>fujoshi
>has a self-insert and ships herself with one character
These are separate things. "Fujoshi" are just the women who are way too into yaoi, it doesn't mean "any female fan"
Fujo has become an insult for autistic women in general
I'm still going to call it out when I see it, its textbook Cinemaphile stupidity that only makes things more confusing and people more ignorant.
>insult for autistic women in general
No that's femanon.
Femanon is as much of an insult as anon is.
Yes, and they both mean autistic sperg lord or lass.
Did it have a fandom to begin with?
Probably had the worst fate for duck related show fandoms
Uh no
Yes
Homestuck
If you’re still part of the homestuck fandom I probably hate you
Does FusionFall count?
Because if it does then mine is FusionFall.
Last I remember, doesn't this game have a fan continuation in the works?
yeah its pretty good so far
Epilouges were a mistake.
The entire last 2 or 3 acts were a mistake.
I miss this artist. I must draw, or commission, GHB art. She has so little.
Those low quality dubs of the tumblr page were my introduction to Homestuck. thanks to it I kinda surviwed a hellish Middle Shcool. With it I went to early high school years. It made me laugh it made me cry. Fan comics, Sadstuck, Dubs. Then I started opening up to others (I landed in awsome class). And I kinda forgot abaut it. Maybe I didn't need it anymore Im out of high school now and I remember these time so fondly MY RP as Grand Highboob. My firs and only erp on discord.... Going out of my porn addiction. Homestuck was there. Now its gone. Like so many things I remember. A Past that is completely diffrent country now. But I still remember HER. and Violet Prince.
This hits closer to home than i'd like to admit. Though for me it was flunking out of college and HSG/Homestuck fandom softening the blow. And the dear friends I found through it, some I have to this day, some I lost forever. It was something unique.
What happend to him?
Toby Fox pretty much took all of Andrew's fanbase.
Surprisingly this, been on Cinemaphile over 13 years now and this always had Cinemaphile threads non-stop when I clicked on here every now and then. Nowadays I maybe see something once in a blue moon. I'm sure if I check archived threads there would be more but there is none up at the moment, and for something as big as homosuck to not have any threads ATM is weird to me.
Duckman
Weird thing for this one is the Cabs fandom for the characters themselves is nowhere near dead, but related to LOT3C itself is pretty dead
hey, at least you got the DT17 artists doing panchito or jose art over at Twitter :^)
>DT17
Fug
It was the Bruce.
theresa was cute
Megas XLR
Martin Mystery
Kappa Mikey
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
The Life and Times of Juniper Lee
W.I.T.C.H
Sheep in the Big City
Time Squad
Rockos' Modern Life
Mucha Lucha
Secret Saturdays
I Am Weasel
Evil con carne
>watched 3/4ths of these
my brother
It is nothing but pain, broseph.
Nobody ever talks about them and nobody watched them and nobody have them on DVD for some reason.
There is close to nothing new fanart and shit is pretty ded.
Not even hentai and that is the key Health indicator of a fandom.
>Not even hentai and that is the key Health indicator of a fandom.
hihi puffy has (had?) a lot of yuri porn
for obvious reasons, ami and yumi are the definition of opposites attract
though the real life ami and yumi may not approve
Keyword being Had a lot of Yuri Porn.
I have been dying for some new content, especially for Megas XLR, Martin Mystery...
Those are dead as all hell.
It is a shame because they genuinely have interesting concepts and characters that arouses me.
>especially for Megas XLR
megas was so good
its not fair
>kappa mikey
I remember being made fun of by some girls in some elementary school theatre class thing when I suggested we do something from kappa mikey instead of usher like they wanted to
Kappa Mikey has heart despite the shitty animation. It is genuinely funny and entertaining content, shit like that is getting rarer than a Dodo.
Honestly kinda deserved it that's kinda cringe anon, but that's just more proof girls have this obsession with growing up more than boys.
You know seeing the shitshow modern fandoms have all become I think I'll enjoy being one of the only 4 people on the planet to enjoy my favorite Cinemaphile related thing.
What is it?
>implying he's going to fall for that
right, like a fandom is going to magically appear when anon mentions his obscure shit show
this
t. enjoying my time in such a tiny fandom nobody knows it exists
The world genuinely became worse off the second Homestuck and My Little Pony's fandoms became a fraction of what they used to be. We need these autism traps to drag schizos into so they waste their time writing Petstuck fanfiction instead of throwing bricks through senators windows.
The Pink Panther. It's rarely shown on Boomerang anymore and barely anybody I know discusses it. That's a damn shame to because the Pink Panther is one of my all time favorite cartoons. Woody Woodpecker is in this strange purgatory. They made a movie a few years ago but practically nobody watched it and it might as well not exist. Mighty Mouse, Atom Ant, and Secret Squirrel are non-entities nowadays sadly. Fondly remembered but nobody's really doing anything with those properties. Rocky and Bullwinkle is on the strange boat where they keep getting content but nobody really seems to pay attention. They had a geico commercial a year or two ago which was nice to see but I doubt anybody really young recognized them. Screwy Squirrel is a severely underrated Tex Avery creation that needs a revival. David Weiss' creations in Cow and Chicken and I Am Weasel are rarely acknowledged by CN despite the fact a lot of people fondly remember them.
i lie those old disney shows like recess and fillmore!, but every thread for them is some edgy shit like 'i bet [female character] went into porn
and i still like steven universe. everything these days sells itself on being woke, but SU wa the only one where i really felt like they had their hearts in it instead of pandering to the millenials
None. Fandoms are literal hellhole.
It's pretty much dead at this point, the fandom or fan activity is like 1/4 of what it used to be and it's just about to end its 1st season.
oh frick off, that's not dead
>show about a ghost
>it's not dead
anon I ...
>slice of life
Not my cup of tea, but considering what other vapid cartoons have generated a fandom in the past im surprised if it’s actually fallen off that much
Harvey Beaks
deserved it
take that back
nope, Harvey Beaks was recycling 90s cartoon tropes everyone has grown tired of, it was so lame
Chowder was better in literally every single way, so it’s kind of drab by comparison
I respect your opinion
I'm going to start a Harvey Beaks thread just to spite you
>I'm going to start a Harvey Beaks thread
and I'm watching it fail right now
It's picking up, b***h
Is the Redwall netflix show dead now?
I probably wouldn't even watch it but at least it'd get people talking about it again, I've been reading through the series and it got me really interested in discussing it
try / lit /
Does it count if you joined the fandom when it was dead, or if it perpetually is in a dead state even if something comes out?
Like the 12 ox Mouse fandom
How the frick do you join a dead fandom exactly? How the frick do you JOIN a fandom??
look at this pleb who's not allowed in the 12 oz. mouse treehouse fanclub
pathetic
As discussed earlier, what is annoying is people treating it as some automatic thing. I personally think its possible to be a fan of something and not be "a member of the fandom."
Good. You're not missing anything.
Well what makes you a fan exactly? Because expressing your opinions about a specific show on here doesn't cut it for me
It's not that complex to me, if you like something you could call yourself a fan of it (or if you like something enough to "follow" what's going on with it, if that makes sense). The dumb issue is how being a fan and the idea of fandom aren't seen as separate now. You're assumed to be part of that tribe even if you've never interacted with it. For example, I grew up with Sonic games, AoStH, and the OVA. I enjoy those (the bad ones in a B movie sort of way). I literally never interacted with any online fans, since was a sheltered kid with fearmongering parents. But try saying "I'm a fan of Sonic" now. Note all the connotations that come with that now.
I disagree, there's a difference between liking something and having an interest in it
im siding with him. being a fan, and being in the fandom aren't the same thing. the latter implies participation, the former is literally just watching the show on purpose.
i am a fan of bagels. i eat them when there are other options i could select
I'm not a fan of Big City Greens because I don't want to see Gloria fat and immobile or lick her feet, got it
Are you purposely misunderstanding this post?
Are you purposely moronic?
>he doesn't adopt the tribal cult Fandom model
>small group of enjoyers
>everyone can draw and more
>dedicated archival network hidden in a web of old forums, only using discord to organize goal oriented efforts
>literal spy networks in the industry
>esoteric bent, not schizo, just awakened
I said that.
>or if you like something enough to "follow" what's going on with it
I sort of get where you're coming from then, sorry about that. I personally can't relate to people who don't want to create, if I want to express my like for something I just go for it or else I feel emotionally constipated and antsy. Not getting affirmation does suck, but I'd rather be in this boat than stuck with those people who didn't even like my art for the right reasons.
I'd go a step further and say "fandom" is participation in a certain circle. There are loads of times I've seen people claim "the fandom is dead!" but if you go to Japanese twitter it never "died." But even then it's more like "circles," I'd say. There are groups and niches who are at war and people who are metaphorical hermits like me who don't bother interacting with the others anymore and just post my own thing.
well, the Cinemaphile sides of a fandom and thetumblr sides can be very different for instance. alothugh i suppose they do feed off each other a bit.
Yeah, and some can never even interact. Like for instance a little meme that never escapes the Japanese fans of an anime.
oh my god you autist
if you like something you're a fan of it, jesus christ
>people complaining choose only to consume
>don't create anything themselves
Hmm
*by this I mean what the thread had turned into, not every person in the thread
I'm a fanartist but I never joined one of those discord servers because such concentrated autism scares me
I've love Ava's Demon since Cinemaphile started talking about it years and years ago. Now no one talks about it, or makes fan art which is a tragedy to me. The few who remain are tumblrite homosexuals. I miss Ava so much
Genuine question: why don't you make things yourself?
I do. It's not enough
Not Cinemaphile, but for me it's the fandoms of Forbidden Siren and The Evil Within.
Fairly Oddparents. Was probably one of the biggest cartoon fandoms on the 00s internet, but year after year of poor decision and Hartman frickery nurtured a fanbase of doomers and now its a shell of a shell of its former self.
>nooooo people aren't making genderbender porn anymore it's dead!
have a nice day
I mean they are
Camp is back homie
Doesn't this show still have a healthy fanbase in Latam or is that dead too
It never ceases to amaze me hard people cling to this episode despite it basicly being rendered non canon by the rest of the series.
Homos have taken over the fanbase
zoomers*
*homosexual zoomers
Redundant
Hozoosexuals
Imagine Texas zoomers
Eighter a Redneck boy with identity crisis after watching all those Lost Cause DEBUNKED videos So now is hostile to this whole Southern Pride criticism. Or a kid from big city with identity crisis(who is propably gay) who seaks to channel his frustations on statues of dead guys. Which one is worse is up to you.
Brokeback mountain sad cowboy just looking for some tough lovin'
Any Cinemaphile with two or more close guy mains will be taken over by the fujos
Yeah, it's pretty obnoxious.
man i hear you, wish it the fandom was more varied, not only gays, but also straights who could see the potential in R63'd them both
I still check for new whomp comics almost daily
When was his last update?
June 23 2021 so just over a year ago
>comic runs for 10 years
>plenty of people like and support it
>barely any fanart during and after comic
>no fan discussion since comic ended
>no good porn
Sad. At least the creator still posts art from time to time.
nah Homestuck still sucks
And that's why noone gives a shit lel and anon doesn't even notice.
Frick off.
starbros... are we dead?
Who is this from?
use reverse image search moron
daron i think
pitch era Star Butterfly
On Cinemaphile? yes
Cartoon fandoms at least get some trickle and can spark discussion years later, being a comic fan of old, non big-two comics is suffering. There is just no discussion to be had anywhere.
rip livejournal
It's only a matter of time before you are indeed the only one.
When you are gone, there will be none.
How do I keep my waifu alive?
If you love her and are faithful, that's all that matters. Let your love help you become a better person and your life one worth living
Commission mountains of weird fetish porn, so that when people think of the fetish, they inadvertently have to associate the character with it
And like, we’re talking *weird* you can’t just be another scrub going for futa or musclegirl porn
You haven't been to web 1.0 if you haven't read a Disneyfan1 fanfic MST3K'd by Neverhood fancharacters in series of Livejournal posts, linked from probably now defunct forums.
>neverhood
supremely comfy game
I’m pretty much the only person I know of that makes content for Regular Show. I see people post clips and occasional fanart but the fandom isn’t really there besides that. It’s just me…
Penn Zero is really underrated and deserve more love
Yo-kai Watch English Side of the fandom have been really low after YW Blasters and Season 3 of the anime and YW 3 is a rare 3ds game (Lucky I have a physical copy and if you spending money on the eshop I RECOMMEND IT!)
>Yo-kai Watch
Because it failed to be the "pokemon killer" everyone thought it was going to be.
but yokai watch did kill pokemon temporarily in japan, though it was just part of a wider trend that pokemon was in decline worldwide
I was a fan of Golan the Insatiable. I like evil e-girls and eldritch creatures, and thought the show was pretty funny.
penguins of madagascar
>tfw you become a Rick and Morty joke
Fate worse than death
They were making jokes of Captain Planet since Robot Chicken
This is less preachy then shit like Steven Universe or Owl House so I don't know why it gets flack
It's not less preachy, you just don't find its message as objectionable
i thought it was the irony that captain planet's message was coming from a mega corporation that was somehow complicit in the activities captain planet was fighting
It was sorta a guilt thing from Turner iirc? Like he cared about it A LOT, it was a passion project
even the toys went that far. but I don't think he managed to get the message across, particularly to cynical and discerning grown ups
>It's not less preachy
And? That doesn't make Captain planet less preachy, just because another show is equally preachy.
Even then, that was a PSA mad after the show ended. Captain planet was all PSA, nothing else.
anon, the whole show was PR for the environment.
The shorts are really nice on the girls
One that I wish would have gotten more love was Cleopatra in Space. There's not a lot of good art for it both regular and rule 34.
I love Akila's show design and she's pretty cute in general. Shame the show was canceled before it can finish the story.
Akilla is a wonderful girl and I want to smooch her. Since I can't, I will draw her.
MLP, saw when it started to decay after the whole twilicorn happened and slowly snowballed into a big frickfest that i had to cut off a lot of people i met. Mainly stay for the amazing fanart because it tooked me back when things where simple, i couldn't completely quit but none the less the show and fandom was dead to me.
>Mlp
>Dead fandom
In its “dead” phase it gets more fanart in one hour then many shows I follow get their entire lifetime
That's what i said about the fanart, anon. i stayed for it but anything else i won't ever touch again.
i was too young to witness the glory days of season 1/2 and i will forever be mad
>it started to decay after the whole twilicorn happened
Has there ever been a fandom to see such a rapid and non-stop decline after a single change in a single episode?
I genuinely don't think I've ever seen one decision have so many destructive knock-on effects on every aspect of a show's quality.
Ever After High, W.I.T.C.H, 6Teen and Angel's Friends.
The latter is even more special to me because it's an obscure bad Italian cartoon from the Winx era. I have watched both seasons and the movie. Definition of wasted potential. Wish I had more people autistic enough to care.
>Oban Star Racers
>Dragon Booster
>Bob and George
There are more but those are some things I look fondly back upon and feel remorse that they don't get enough love.
If this was in Cinemaphile I could give a whole lot more. It's always sad to consider great stories that have concluded and fade in people's memories, while the next generation of media-goers never get the chance to enjoy these pieces of art.
Don't worry Star Vs / Steven Universe / Kevin Spencer fandom, I'm keeping you alive
Big guy and rusty boy robot.
there's just about nothing for this show and it makes me sad, even when i was back in school watching reruns no-one else would watch it because it was "just worse astroboy" which had just reached Australian shores.
...Most of them? How many good cartoons are still running today?
Finally someone gets it
in10 years people will be saying this and also seething over polyamorous representation or whaetver the next woke thing to put in the tv shows is
Mona the Vampire
my first reaction to Big Mouth was it operating on Mona the Vampire Logic
how wrong I was
MLaaTR isn't dead you fricking underages
Didn’t the last episode drop like 20 years ago?
Sure but porn of Jenny is still being made
Yeah, there was that Zone animation that brought life back into the fandom.
Legend Quest was a show with great potential and a small comfy fanbase. Too bad it was rebooted an downgraded instead of being given a proper second season. I feel like that really killed whatever small fanbase there was. That and having no news from this franchise for about 3 years.
>. Too bad it was rebooted an downgraded instead of being given a proper second season
masters of myth wasnt bad at all
and the lineless art was an upgrade
The art style thing might just be me. I liked the look of the first series better, but the show was good anyway. I just feel like the fact is a reboot sours it a lot for me since I expected a proper follow up to the first season.
Yeah, I mean, both shows were fine, but the rebooting was kind of unnecessary.
I mean, now we know Mexico can do a good lore show.
The Dark Crystal.
Why are you repeating your posts? Is that your only "argument"?
Because you made a point I already answered, I'm treating you like a child, you see. Why would I need to make another argument for something I already answered?
What is this art? If it’s a comic I want to read more.
>he hasn't read pinky and pepper
There was a story time up a couple of days ago. You HAVE to read it. It's one of the greatest piece of surrealism in the past decade
Here it's still in the archive >
Thanks for the surreal trip anon
The Wuzzles
Always had a comfy time talking about this 2 in one show
Archer
Motorcity
Wakfu
Regular Show
>reading books is white supremacy
do these people not realize that doesn't make people not want to read books, it makes them think, hmm maybe white supremacy ain't so bad
books is white supremacy
Yes, because Black folk can't read so if you pick up a book you're oppressing them
Are you being intentionally obtuse?
They are, since they pretty have been going "thats not real" when someone talks about their own experience. Or just waving it off as no big deal if it did happen. I just like bringing up the shit that happened, remember the keystone motel thing? or the homestucks spitting into a bucket? good times
Yeah, anon must have a shitton blacklisted online or maybe is one ofnthe ones lucky enough to fit in with the mob themselves. Or y'know, a troll. I don't see the point in going into a thread to tell people they're wrong about something. If there's one thing I've learned, its that you can never change anyone's mind. Ever. It's about as smart a move as going into a thread for a specific fetish and telling everyone there you think they're disgusting.
>Homestuck
I admit I tried to get into Homestuck but couldn't. I like some of the ideas in it though. So I only heard of things from afar.
Homestuck was very hard to get into, I watched from afar for two years before finally giving in. Took me two weeks to catch up in 2013, so I imagine now it'll be around a month to fully digest it. I say you dodged a bullet.
What's some of your work? I kept an eye on the sug threads in their prime. Never posted much, funny I draw more SU stuff now than when it was on tv.
And I get the coomer stuff too, it just doesn't appeal to me as much, picking up where some plot lines and lore left off is way more fun imo
My nickname there was "grapegarden", most people knew me for my Roses. I drew both PearlRose and GregRose fluff too. I just found a bunch of my drawings from then the other day so I was reminiscing on that. Even with all the reveals I'm still basically a Rose apologist, and current sug hates that (from what I've seen whenever I take a peek it's nothing but cooming and arguing now). I'm not even a prude (hey, I like cheeky stuff now and then) but man the internet is always at 100% now, huh.
Huh, cant recall the name, but I'm sure if I saw your art I would remember.
Yeah, Rose isn't everyone's favorite anymore, but I'm not going to bash someone for liking her. The threads are more about waifus and rather Steven is a cuck or not. I wished they would make some comics about Steven travelling, so there's actually discussion to be had.
No problem. Here is a funni Garnet I did circa 2015 that I found
>I'm not going to bash someone for liking her
Thanks for being cool, anon. You know, that does kind of connect to the fandom subject again. Nowadays if you say you like something, people will assume or ask what "faction" of the fandom you're from. The same applies to characters themselves, too. If you say you like a character, now you're assumed to agree with everything the character does/says, rather than just gave sympathy for them. Obviously you can like a character without thinking they never made a mistake, but apparently on the internet that's impossible. It even seems like something people claim themselves out of insecurity, like the "did nothing wrong" memes when a character obviously fricked up.
>balloon animal arm
Very cute! And I agree, Steven being a sort of wandering hero has potential. Though I did want some resolution to his opinion of Rose that wasn't "lol I hate her now." Really sould have shut up sug.
lol, its no big deal man, cute drawing!
>"did nothing wrong" memes
The internet has been insufferable since that meme was created, I miss liking a morally evil or gray character and not trying to convince everyone they're actually a misunderstood angel.
>Though I did want some resolution to his opinion of Rose that wasn't "lol I hate her now."
You know, that is the biggest gripe I have with Future, he can give every else a benefit of the doubt, but his mom is now the bane of his existence? He can't even get along with the gems that resembled her (this goes for the unbubbled rose quartz and the diamonds) without treating them like family he doesn't want to interact with unless he is having problems with his powers When people say Steven is buddy buddy with the diamonds I'm quick to remember he doesn't care for them in any way.
>Homestuck was very hard to get into
That's one of the reasons why I never bothered with it, the other being every single fan of it without fail is some obnoxious troon and/or roastie so I assumed the content was probably shit
>obnoxious troon and/or roastie
That is the majority of the fandom now, acts 1-4 were decent, but it all went down hill in 5 onward. Sucks that the OG website it premiered on is broken now, doesn't help with the lack of readability.
I saw it collected in a comic at a bookstore though, can't be that hard to get into.
It's unfinished and will never be finished
>keystone motel
Oh, it took a minute for me to remember this. Man, that was embarrassing. I used to be a somewhat active drawgay in the sug threads. To this day I wonder if people remember me, I honestly just completely ran out of ideas as the show was reaching its end. And Cinemaphile got way too coomer for my tastes, so I only visit here once every so often.
I can't believe that Keystone Motel shit was 7 years ago. God, that was cringe. And that wasn't even the worse thing the fandom did that year. They also harassed that one artist for drawing a character too skinny.
>tfw can't interact with any fandoms because i either have nothing to say but "i liked it", or i have ideas/theories strong enough i want to steal them for my own stories rather than sharing them
I totally understand that last bit, but with my original stories. Would love to get proper feedback from people without the fear of it all getting yoinked by someone popular who then accuses me of stealing.
The one that was present a year ago was complete garbage
Good. How could something so generic and boring have a fandom in the first place?
For those wondering why fandoms die here are the stages.
>1) The show ends.
The reality is that most people only like what is currently popular, so once a show ends most people will leave and go on to something else. This means that people who produce fan content will get less attention making things about this show so they'll switch to whatever is currently popular. This is why shows that seemed to have huge fanbases disintegrate fairly rapidly.
>2) The show's initial popularity brings in a new audience.
While most people are not watching the show if it was popular or was one of the best in its genre people will find about about it and watch it. If they enjoy it they'll make join the fandom and may produce fan art. In this stage there is new content but at a much slower rate. An example is Avatar, which despite ending in 2008 has remained popular.
>3) The show fades away.
Due to the reduced rate of new fans watching this show almost no new content is produced. This eventually leads to people being unaware of the show or ignoring it because there are newer shows that they consider better. At this point unless the show is rebooted the fandom is effectively dead. An example is every show that was good but no one talks about because there are newer shows that are as good or better.
So the length of time it takes a fandom to die depends upon:
>How popular it was in stage 1. The more popular it was the more fan art they'll be and the higher the chance people will find out about it.
>How similar it is to other shows in stage 2. If the show was about something most newer shows are not then people will watch it simply because it will be the best in that particular category.
>How able people are to watch this show in stage 3. If it's difficult to find people may not even know it exists.
>there are newer shows that are as good or better
So that's why this board has constant SU threads
There aren't many other gay shows to talk about.
Also some people liked the characters. Starfire and Raven were also able to benefit from this.
>Starfire and Raven
coomer nostalgia, see Frankie Foster and Vicky from FOP
some characters just never disappear
meh, Starfire and Raven are DC characters so they are bound to be new content by DC. Frankie Foster and Vicky aren't as lucky.
>An example is Avatar, which despite ending in 2008 has remained popular.
there's still new official content, like Korra, the comics, and an entire studio dedicated for making movies based on it.
this cartoon is refreshing since it has cero Anime/internet culture references.
>Kim Possible
>As a non kigo kind of guy.
It's rough
>turns out everyone just cares about porn of their waifus
I hate this place
It’s possible to miss a show you enjoyed a while back for its content but also like to see your favorite character lewded.
>waifus
>s
This is the worst part. Coomers can't even be faithful.
Coomers and faithful shouldn’t be in the same sentence unless the words “are not” is between them.
Glitch techs, and no not just for the porn. I think show was charming and fun to watch
We’ll never get part 5…
Fricking good. Just let it go back to obscurity. I love these movies but God damn the zoomer screeching is terrible.
>no r34 of Wylde
Heathens. The lot of you
I would settle for an Epistle Three style resolution where one of the writers just puts the plot synopsis on pastebin
You know..I'd actually be alright with that
The writer already told us about the plot of Part 5 and answered other questions on reddit
It sucks we didn't got to see the rest of the movies though
What was the plot he described? I only know that he confirmed Banjee didn’t die and was one of the Silencerz
The saying that childhood is the best enhancer of bad cgi rings true in this series. And yet I still remember watching those movies over and over on a pirated DVDs.
It really is. Personally, finding ignition was a bright spot in my teenage years back in '05/'06.
Wondershowzen
I'm kind of surprised that with all of Disney's money that they don't throw Gargoyles fans a bone.
>comics and cartoons you enjoy that produce no fan content, hardly get discussed, never get updates, etc.
It's a shame Onyx Equinox never got more love. It would have had a chance it it had been any streaming service but Crunchyroll.
Penn zero
Ellie on Planet X
The Maxx
Wander Over Yonder
Gargoyles
Xiaolin Showdown
The Tick
Codename KND
Jackie Chan Adventures
>Codename KND
AHAHAHA NO
> Jackie Chan Adventures threads are nuked.
Even worse than Mona the Vampire
Interesting thread, this week shall be my last one in a certain fandom and then plain obscurity.
I've never heard a single person talk about Baby Blue: the series.
talk about who?
I didn't even realize Baby Blues was a cartoon until I was like 19 despite reading it since I was 8. Still haven't watched the show though, is it any good?
It watches like the comic in a sense with a touch more drama in it. I thought it was good.
Anyone here actually draw/write fan stuff for the dead fandoms you're in? Anything worth sharing?
I mean yes but I won't share
which fandom for?
Smut. Sometimes for myself, sometimes for friends
For 'Twelve Forever', I'm writing pic related.
>No mention of Oban: Based Racers
It was on Jetix. I chose an easy one FFS. Guess I'm alone here.