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A New History of Fandom Purges

On November 24th, 2018, I posted a list of major deletions of sites or of content on sites that stripped fandom of its history. A bunch of pro-shipper blogs had just been deleted, and people were nervous. I suppose I was thinking “All this has happened before…”

On December 3rd, 2018, Tumblr’s Department of Irony announced the NSFW ban. Thanks for providing this salutary lesson to The Youth and a billion reblogs to me, I guess.

Today, we have AO3 for writing. Audio, images, and video are in as much danger as ever, yet fans attack AO3 every donation drive. For those of you who forget our past…

HERE IS WHAT HISTORY HAS TAUGHT US!

1992 - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro forces a zine to be destroyed

1995 - Viacom/Paramount goes after fansites

1995 - Anne Rice gets IWTV fic deleted everywhere

1997 - Fox and Lucasfilm go after fansites

1998 - AOL goes after X-Files fansites

2000 - Warner Brothers goes after Harry Potter fansites

2000 - Anne Rice anne rices again

2001 - Tripod Massacre

2001 - Anne Rice goes after IWTV fic on FFN

2001 - The Bronze shut down as Buffy changes networks

2002 - FFN bans porn

2002 - FFN bans RPF

2003 - Gryffindor Tower implodes

2004 - FFN bans script format

2005 - FFN bans CYOA, Readerfic, 2nd person, Songfic

2005 - Sheezyart bans adult content; y!gallery founded

2005 - Viacom/Paramount goes after fansites again

2006 - Sakura Lemon Archive suddenly closes

2007 - Strikethrough, Boldthrough on Livejournal

2007 - Youtube institutes Content ID, deleting many fanvids

2008 - Slash Cotillion closes, taking much historical m/m with it

2009 - GeoCities shuts down, taking old fannish websites

2009 - Greatestjournal shuts down; RPGs deleted

2009 - Marvel gets scans_daily deleted

2009 - imeem, major vidding hub, closes suddenly

2010 - FFN forums purged for inactivity

2010 - DeviantArt purges adult fanfic

2010 - Literate Union goes after Twilight fandom on FFN

2011 - Delicious destroyed by Yahoo’s incompetence

2011 - China arrests women for writing m/m; destroys danmei.org

2012 - major FFN crackdown on porn

2012 - Megaupload deleted for piracy; also destroys vids, podfic

2013 - Max-Dan-Wiz.com purged of fan-generated content

2014 - Quizilla shuts down

2014 - China purges m/m story websites; arrests female authors

2014 - Blip.tv deletes vids

2014 - Viddler deletes vids

2015 - Journalfen’s servers become fully robust, deleting Fandom Wank

2016 - y!Gallery deleted

2016 - Elfwood goes offline

2016 - Audiofic Archive corrupted; major blow to podfic

2017 - Chinese author jailed after being ratted out over fandom drama

2017 - Parents get queer Warrior Cats fic purged from Wattpad

2018 - Tumblr deletes pro-shipper blogs

2018 - Tumblr announces NSFW ban

2018 - Wattpad deletes accounts/fics without warning

2019 - China purges weibo of m/m; more women jailed

This is only a small taste of the many times that:

Fannish moderators got bored, ran out of money, or had a falling out, deleting a site/list/forum along the way.

Sites got bought out and closed for being unprofitable.

Fandom got hit as governments targeted piracy or political dissidents.

Fans grudge reported each other.

Official forums got deleted when the canon finished.

It’s not always malicious. It’s not always about us. But we lose every time.

Some of these purges hit everyone. Many of them hit m/m content specifically or female gaze-y material in general. This is why antis are dead wrong. This is why anti-fujoshi policies end up being anti-m/m policies. This is why we need clear labeling, not content restrictions.

This is why we need AO3.

And it’s why we need a solution for audio, visuals, and video too.

TAKEOVER TIME!

So Bai He was hit with the purple beam, which is from the purple stone, which is from the white tiger, which elements is metal. I don't think that any person hit by that gem will have a power associated with its element, but the concept of her being able to bend minerals and gemstones and making friendship bracelets for everyone was too cute to ignore.

She can technically bend any hard mineral, but gemstones are easiers, lately she's been trying metals in small sizes.

Also

IT'S CORONATION TIME BABYYYYY

Shadowpeach Bio Parent AU (PREV / FIRST /

Next part is coming on March 8th. 2PM ET

Finally finished, phew.

Our favorite Monkey parents find out the source of unusual energy ⚡

Suddenly all the recent demon-break ins make more sense to them.

Showed a smidge of Wukongs protective side. We all love it. We all want it 🤌

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art is that wonderful thing that makes you take out what you have inside and doing it if it's enough, for me it is because that's how I get everything.

Make art for yourself!! Art should be indulgent and fun and be the things you want to make. I think because of the big push for representation in mainstream media (which is important) people feel like their personal art now has to be there to appeal to a wide audience and give others the exact content and representation they want to see, but that’s not true at all.

If you’re not a big company controlling the media, you should never be held to that responsibility. If you represent marginalized experiences or want to tell certain stories it should be because it’s important to you, not because others demand your art be that for them (plus it’ll be more authentic and genuine that way).

The line between personal art and mainstream media unfortunately gets progressively blurred due to social media connecting everyone, but they are ultimately two different things and people should be allowed to use their personal art to explore their own or other experiences, make sense of themselves, or just have fun and be indulgent without any expectations to uphold to satisfy a larger audience.

Personal art should not exist to fill the roles that is expected of mainstream media. Your art exists for you and it’s your communication tool.

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Artist: *posts art* Artist: PLEASE DON’T TAG ANY SHIPS!!!!1!11!!!!!1!!!1!!!! Their art:

My shipping ass:

Ce jour-là, mon bateau m’a rappelé mon passé et combien il est devenu lourd avec le désir de connaître l’univers... c’est une pause pour penser

I think the new memories that are being made come to the future stans in their dreams