the Snowflake Challenge: Day 14
Jan. 14th, 2019 11:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sunkellesDay 14
In your own space, talk about what you think the future holds for fandom. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
What are your hopes and dreams for fandom? Do you have any predictions about what the next five years holds for fandom? Where do you think fandom will end up congregating? Feel free to answer this question with a sentence or a couple paragraphs, express your feelings with a good old fashioned meta or through words, music, graphics, dance, recipes, etc. Whatever works for you. *g*
So I have zero idea where fandom will be migrating in the next few years. I know that some people (like me) have just dipped a toe into DW and are enjoying it. I know that some people have been trying out Pillowfort? Most of my tumblr friends are determined to stay there until either the site implodes or they die. Who knows where fandom will live in the future, but I want to be right there in the thick of things.
I do have some hopes for fandom, though! I hope that we bring back a more interactive culture. So many of us (at least in the tumblr crowd and... the ao3 crowd honestly) like people's work but don't do anything about it. They hit the like button, or maybe the kudos button, and then they call it a day. I hope that in the future we get back into more of a feeling where we scream at each other about what we like? That art's pretty? Tell them! That line in a fic made you laugh? Tell them! We call them fan communities, so we should try our hardest to treat them like communities.
I also hope that ao3 continues to be the main site for fic, but also that people start utilizing some of the site's other capabilities like for fan art, vids, and meta. It would be nice to be able to find those things along with the fic that I'm reading.
In your own space, talk about what you think the future holds for fandom. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
What are your hopes and dreams for fandom? Do you have any predictions about what the next five years holds for fandom? Where do you think fandom will end up congregating? Feel free to answer this question with a sentence or a couple paragraphs, express your feelings with a good old fashioned meta or through words, music, graphics, dance, recipes, etc. Whatever works for you. *g*
So I have zero idea where fandom will be migrating in the next few years. I know that some people (like me) have just dipped a toe into DW and are enjoying it. I know that some people have been trying out Pillowfort? Most of my tumblr friends are determined to stay there until either the site implodes or they die. Who knows where fandom will live in the future, but I want to be right there in the thick of things.
I do have some hopes for fandom, though! I hope that we bring back a more interactive culture. So many of us (at least in the tumblr crowd and... the ao3 crowd honestly) like people's work but don't do anything about it. They hit the like button, or maybe the kudos button, and then they call it a day. I hope that in the future we get back into more of a feeling where we scream at each other about what we like? That art's pretty? Tell them! That line in a fic made you laugh? Tell them! We call them fan communities, so we should try our hardest to treat them like communities.
I also hope that ao3 continues to be the main site for fic, but also that people start utilizing some of the site's other capabilities like for fan art, vids, and meta. It would be nice to be able to find those things along with the fic that I'm reading.
