....o.O

[reenka]

Okay, I really don't get this.

What's an 'other, lesser mortal'?? o_0 What is an 'insignificant' person? Why do people, uh, refer that way [as 'small'] to themselves in all seriousness without any apparent joking self-deprecation or realization this is the height of just... y'know, self-esteem issues? Eh? Whuh? Did I miss something?

Yeah, so apparently there's some sort of... thing going on in the meta-circles currently about Big Bad BNFs & their anti-communist ways or whatever and it's just sort of... funny?? heh.

What I find most amusing is how ready people are to perpetuate such a meaningless hierarchy in every aspect of their lives, including their online hobby. It's like, the person can't truly be a 'BNF', not -really-, unless you accept -yourself- as 'non-BNF'-- ie, a plebe, 'just' a lurker, and/or pathetic loser wannabe [or whatever]. It's funny I even say this 'cause I'm not one of those people big on self-confidence myself, in real life or online-- I'm totally constantly aware what a sad lamer I am. But. There's a difference between not being self-confident and being a willing Tool of the Man, while [of course] bitching at said Man [who, btw, doesn't exist because basically... THIS IS FANDOM, OKAY, NOT WORLD POLITICS] :P

I'm sorry I locked this, but. Wank = inconvenient, even though this is -my- lj, which means [generally] no one ever wanks here unless they like me, but still. Uh. -.- And now I go to sleep.

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[furiosity.livejournal.com]

I accept that I have become one of the cool kids.
No words. Dying.

I notice that these aren't HP people, though, so it could be just baby fandom growing pains. I was in the Matrix fandom from day one and while I didn't hang out with any ficcers in that fandom (because let's face it, a lot of this sort of drama llama ding dong happens predominantly around fic writers -- who generally have a higher likelihood of taking themselves way too seriously), there were definitely declarations of "board popularity". Where some of the more vocal members would preface their threads with things like "I know you all expect me to say such-and-such because everyone knows I believe in such-and-such, but--". Which would then lead to other people mocking them for it and a whole lot of metawank on whether we should judge ideas independently from their sources and whether that was even possible, etc etc. But that sort of thing lasted for about 6 months in all.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Maaaan, there is sooooo much [old] BNF wank in HP when it was already big, it's not even funny-- I mean, I think we -invented- BNF wank, really :D People tell -me- they're scared to talk to me 'cause I'm so cool/intimidating/well-known/etc, so imagine how they feel about someone who's actually popular :)) ahahaha oh man. It's not so much the ficcers as people's -reactions- to the ficcers (they seem saner about artists for some reason, maybe because more people are either aspiring writers or feel inadequate if they're not & think they're 'intelligent' or... have issues....). The thing that totally befuddles me is just the whole idea people have of themselves as 'small fry' or whatever, 'unworthy' to even friend a popular fic-writer ON LJ, ahafalskjfldakjad;kjldagsg. Oh man. There are of course tons of silent people who friend -only- well-known people, but the people going on about how oppressed they are because the Big Girls won't talk to them & hold their hand is... I mea... the ENTITLEMENT... it's...*cracks up*