How are you so sure that everyone in a fandom uses discord? Personally I don’t spend that much time on discord for a lot of reasons and I’m sure a lot of people don’t use it too. Also, a lot of servers you need to know someone in order to find a link and join. So if you can’t get an invite because you don’t know the right people, you’re not good enough to join the fandom, I guess.
Fandom doesn't exist on discord only; it's just where folks tend to create closed communities that don't have the toxic folks in there.
I'm active on tumblr (Was active on twitter, but I abandoned twitter bc of how bad it is for artists now), and I still post/reblog etc. Because of tumblr, I found a closed server that is a community for folks that get hate for liking Billy Hargrove.
It's nice to have a closed server because the loud minority that fill his tags with hate aren't in it. We can talk, share writing, art, headcanons etc without having assholes sending us death threats.
Fandom exists everywhere, it's just that discord is becoming a safer place to talk with like-minded folks.
This is the exact circumstance that I saw driving people away from public social media more and more to becoming active only on private discords.
"It's nice to have a closed server because the loud minority that fill his tags with hate aren't in it. We can talk, share writing, art, headcanons etc without having assholes sending us death threats.
Fandom exists everywhere, it's just that discord is becoming a safer place to talk with like-minded folks."
Yup. This is the reason. I don't think the majority of people in these discords necessarily wanted to gatekeep fandom activity behind a wall where mods vet newcomers, but they're vetted in order to screen for behavior such as sending death threats, doxxing, blackmail and harassment attempts, ect... That's simply the unpleasant and toxic reality of public fandom right now. This environment has organically driven large sections and sometimes the lion's share of fandoms activity into these kinds of private community spaces.
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Re: OT Thread (Other fandom salt)
(Anonymous) 2023-07-10 12:00 am (UTC)(link)Re: OT Thread (Other fandom salt)
(Anonymous) 2023-07-10 12:05 am (UTC)(link)Fandom doesn't exist on discord only; it's just where folks tend to create closed communities that don't have the toxic folks in there.
I'm active on tumblr (Was active on twitter, but I abandoned twitter bc of how bad it is for artists now), and I still post/reblog etc. Because of tumblr, I found a closed server that is a community for folks that get hate for liking Billy Hargrove.
It's nice to have a closed server because the loud minority that fill his tags with hate aren't in it. We can talk, share writing, art, headcanons etc without having assholes sending us death threats.
Fandom exists everywhere, it's just that discord is becoming a safer place to talk with like-minded folks.
Re: OT Thread (Other fandom salt)
(Anonymous) 2023-07-10 12:44 am (UTC)(link)This is the exact circumstance that I saw driving people away from public social media more and more to becoming active only on private discords.
"It's nice to have a closed server because the loud minority that fill his tags with hate aren't in it. We can talk, share writing, art, headcanons etc without having assholes sending us death threats.
Fandom exists everywhere, it's just that discord is becoming a safer place to talk with like-minded folks."
Yup. This is the reason. I don't think the majority of people in these discords necessarily wanted to gatekeep fandom activity behind a wall where mods vet newcomers, but they're vetted in order to screen for behavior such as sending death threats, doxxing, blackmail and harassment attempts, ect... That's simply the unpleasant and toxic reality of public fandom right now. This environment has organically driven large sections and sometimes the lion's share of fandoms activity into these kinds of private community spaces.