{"id":94104,"date":"2016-07-04T05:35:14","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T05:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/04\/phantomrose96-agriff11-phantomrose96\/"},"modified":"2016-07-04T05:35:14","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T05:35:14","slug":"phantomrose96-agriff11-phantomrose96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/04\/phantomrose96-agriff11-phantomrose96\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

phantomrose96<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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agriff11<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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phantomrose96<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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theofficialvincenzo<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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phantomrose96<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I would pay top dollar for a comprehensive, source-supported explanation of how Superwholock vanished.<\/i><\/p>\n

Like\u2026\u2026..that was the core of tumblr in 2013. Its tainted life-blood. Its fetid royal palace. Destiel this and Johnlock that. Tardis-in-the-impala-at-221B URLS. Bendydoot Cucumberpatch and long analytical debates of which doctor is best doctor<\/p>\n

What caused the end? What destroyed it? What series of events sunk this fortress? I\u2019m so. So curious. This was so much of what tumblr was. So unavoidable. It\u2019s cultural history. I want. to know.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So I\u2019m not completely sure <\/i>but I think you can pinpoint the disappearance to the month following Dashcon. Like, the entire year prior, things were going fucking insane; The DW 50th anniversary, Sherlock returned after a hiatus, Dean became a demon or something I don\u2019t remember. Point is, the fans were worse than ever.<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n

And then Dashcon happened: All those people got together for a nightmarish event in the ball pit (for anyone who doesn\u2019t know what Dashcon was, look it up and read any of the news articles about it. I promise, you will not be disappointed).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, I wasn\u2019t too active on tumblr at that point because of school reasons, but I remember finding out that the new season of Supernatural had aired on TV, and I saw NOTHING <\/i>about it on tumblr. Not a single post on my dash. It was a miracle, but I was so confused. How had the whole fandom just vanished<\/i>\u00a0like that? I still don\u2019t know for sure, but it was very shortly after the Dashcon incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then Doctor Who returned. New doctor and a new companion. Same scenario. Nobody said anything online. I was still big into DW so that was kind of a bummer but it was still astounding.<\/p>\n

I went back online more readily and started realizing that fandoms, as I had known them, were essentially dead after that summer. It was like everybody simultaneously realized how toxic those communities were after they all got together in person and proved themselves to be a disgusting bunch.<\/p>\n

It was the fastest and most unsettling jump in internet culture I\u2019d ever seen. Overnight<\/i>\u00a0it became an embarrassment to admit that you were in a popular fandom. All because of fucking<\/p>\n

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\u201cSuperwholock died as a result of Dashcon\u201d is the most fascinating theory I\u2019ve heard in a while amazing <\/p>\n

(And you know, seasonal rot and kids getting older and all that but s t i l l)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My personal theory is it was because of hiatuses and competition!<\/p>\n

– Hiatuses: Sherlock especially, but the long Doctor Who mid-season
\nbreaks didn\u2019t help. People wandered off. Some of them to very similar
\nshows, like Elementary, which fought initial fan scepticism to
\nbecome THE Sherlock alternative.<\/p>\n

– Fans became more critical. All
\nthree shows frequently come under fire for their treatment of women,
\nLGBTQIA people, etc., and without new content fans had no option but to
\nrewatch and reexamine the same episodes over and over again. Their flaws
\n became more obvious on repeat viewings, and the comparison to new arrivals like Elementary didn\u2019t help. I imagine there were other
\ncompetitors too, but one would need to do more research to see how
\nrelevant they are here – cartoons like Steven Universe and Gravity
\nFalls, maybe? WtNV? OUAT and OITNB? All of them are much more obviously
\ndiverse, so Superwholock starts looking bland in comparison. There\u2019s also the quality-comparison argument (Doctor Who is not as good at plotting as a lot of other things), but I reckon that goes without saying.<\/p>\n

– Fandom backlash! You either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain. After events like the Mishapocalypse and the infamous FANDOMS GRAB YOUR WEAPONS post Superwholock became shorthand for the most obnoxious parts of Tumblr and fandom, so more people starting distancing themselves from it (see also: how Bronies killed the MLP fandom). And, yeah, it all came to a head with the Dashcon Clusterfuck 2k14.<\/p>\n

– Fandom Backlash II: Your Fave is Problematic. Every popular figure from Joss Whedon to Taylor Swift is eventually the subject of text posts and screencaps dragging their name through the mud. Steven Moffat, Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, and Jensen Ackles (I believe? It might have been Jared Padalecki. I don\u2019t really follow Supernatural) have all had plenty of this.<\/p>\n

IN CONCLUSION: there wasn\u2019t enough new stuff being made. People found their own new stuff, which in many cases they found more appealling. People became less forgiving of the old stuff, its creators, and its fans. Eventually enough time passed that they gave up on the old stuff completely, so when it came back they weren\u2019t interested.<\/p>\n

(granted this mostly comes under the seasonal rot and kids getting older points but I didn\u2019t notice that until I\u2019d typed this out, and it seems a waste to delete it now \ud83d\ude1b )<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s like I\u2019m reading the end-result of an assigned essay topic I handed out last night. I\u2019ve forgotten so many things from the 2013 era you get an A+<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

See and this is fascinating to me because I joined tumblr in mid-late 2012 and didn\u2019t really become active until late December 2012\/January 2013. So I was here for the mishapocalypse and a lot of stuff, but 2013 was more or less when I started in fandom. And I was 34. So I came to everything late.<\/p>\n

With some convincing I sat down and watched new Doctor Who in early 2013, then started Supernatural around the summer. I watched Sherlock in July and started writing for that fandom August 1st.<\/p>\n

So I really only caught the tail end of superwholock, only had a few months before Sherlock s3 (and that caused it\u2019s own problems), was here for the Doctor Who 50th, and really never got that much into Supernatural, though I watched the first couple seasons.<\/p>\n

@superwholockthecomic<\/a> is still amazing though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

phantomrose96: agriff11: phantomrose96: theofficialvincenzo: phantomrose96: I would pay top dollar for a comprehensive, source-supported explanation of how Superwholock vanished. Like\u2026\u2026..that was the core of tumblr in 2013. Its tainted life-blood. Its fetid royal palace. Destiel this and Johnlock that. Tardis-in-the-impala-at-221B URLS. Bendydoot Cucumberpatch and long analytical debates of which doctor is best doctor What caused … <\/p>\n

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