Sigh

[bubosquared]

I'm randomly feeling like crying. DVD drive still doesn't work, the trafficmagnet thing, and I feel (egotistical, I know) like the Lotrips fandom is overrun by teenies who are ruining evrything RPS has gained over the last two years. How am I ever gonna honestly argue that RPSers can distinguish between reality and fantasy when there's people seeing those tongue-licking pictures and immediately concluding that that means they must be gay?

Fucking PMS.

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Comments

[arami.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I know what you mean. It seems as much as those of us who are trying to "school" them so to speak are just speaking to the air. I've seen the same thing happen in a few other fandoms, and unfortunately I fear we can't avoid it when said fandoms have such appeal to the "teenies".

I hope you feel better though *hugs*

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm afraid you're right. In most fandoms, newbies get sort of assimilated, they lurk for a while to learn basic things, like Do Not Toppost, Do Not Bash Pairings, etc. unfortuinately, this fandom is run by newbies, and *cringe*.

[coneyislandbaby]

I'm pretty sure that's almost all the difficulty...I really am.

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[arami.livejournal.com]

Yes exactly. And with the newbies not taking any kind of netiquette advice, and from what I can see, pretty much ignoring those who've been in fandom for a while, it doesn't look to end sooner.