Reblog: Am I Hallucinating, or...

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muccamukk posted: Am I Hallucinating, or...

Peak livejournal-era fandom was really wanky, right? Were people on different parts of the site? In different fandoms? Does no one remember the spork comms, the ship wars, the dogpiles?...I mean, I agree that Tumblr has different and certainly faster sort of wank going on, but they didn't exactly invent people being assholes to each other on the Internet.

There was drama in the Sherlock Holmes fandom in the 1890s and thats often cited as the first modern fandom so...

"Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire (Official Video)" (Watch on YouTube)

We didn't start the fire! It was always burning since the worlds been turning...