Ya’ll Know What? (Semi-Rant)
Being a big fan of things that have dead fandoms kind of sucks. ;u;
Like... I remember things I’m into that had huge followings in the past and when I look back on the memories, I want so badly to experience that again but can’t because now no one is talking about the thing in question.
I keep talking to people about some of those things and back in the day, I would have gotten reactions like “OMG YESSSS!” or “I LOVE that (thing), this is my favorite character-”. Now I mostly either get dead silence or a “I never got into ____”/”I’ve never heard of ______”...
I just... I really dislike how time goes by. I’m not saying the past was better because let’s face it- so many people were less educated about things and in that sense, it was not a great time. But if I could revive any of my fandoms from the past for just one more day, I probably would. But for the animes, specifically, I would hold off on revival until I’m at an anime convention. >:) That way I’d have just one more day seeing so many people cosplay those fandoms in person because I used to be a decently popular cosplayer in my state years back so I loved going to conventions and seeing everyone all dressed up (as well as dressing up myself).
Also would not mind throwing in a dash of these things going to Carameldansen, Cascada music or “Sandstorm” by Darude:
Why? Because. Because those things were made by people just having fun with anime and other kinds of fandoms with video and sound editing. Some might say that stuff was “cringe” now but in my opinion, it’s generally not “cringe” to just have fun and that’s what we used to do. All that mattered in a fandom back then was “are you having fun in this fandom”. That was it.
There seemed to be much less of “Oh, you’re into that? Ew” and more “You’re into that? Cool, come join us!”.
Anyway... this specifically started because I brought up Death Note a while back to someone online and they seriously were like “What? I’ve never heard of that.” and it just temporarily fried me. Because when I brought it up, I hadn’t stopped to think about how much time had gone by since I was in high school so in some small way, my brain was treating the conversation as if the year was 2007, I guess and back then, nearly everyone I talked to was into Death Note. So when this person clarified that they didn’t know anything about one of my all time favorite anime series, I was temporarily in a state of shock. It dawned on me that this person didn’t know how interesting it had been to watch L versus Light, that this person would have no idea that Gods of Death Love Red Apples, that they’d never seen goth queen Misa, that this person might even look at Rem and assume Rem was terrifying before even knowing who Rem is inside, that this person had no idea just how attractive L could be... and it temporarily wrecked me.
I normally just want tidbits of the 90′s to come back because I miss so much from the years I was in elementary school but tbh, I would be happy just to have a little 2000′s back as well.
