I miss when you could go into the tags of a fandom and find really cool people making shit purely for the love of it, nowadays you join a fandom and it's essential for your sanity to make 2-3 mutuals who get you and then get the fuck outa there as fast as possible or you’ll develop a deep resentment for it
and fandoms have always had a few people who you'd fundamentally disagree with and you could block them and move on with your day, but now there's ai art, fic, and a stream of complaining about how there's not enough of this and that, fanfic writers should do this, or I hate this interpretation and you should die if you have this headcanon, you're playing toys wrong. your fandom is dying? yeah, flowers wilt and die without water and sunlight too, support creators and complain to your mutuals in dms
