kficanon ([personal profile] kficanon) wrote2014-07-19 12:29 pm

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(Anonymous) 2016-02-25 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
i just got into fandom last year, can someone give me a rundown of exo fandom? i've heard people talking about it like it was a shitshow or there were too many fic exchanges (upthread convo) or something, was it as bad as people are saying it was? (is? is exo fandom still alive...)

(Anonymous) 2016-02-25 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
uhh i don't know how ficdom is doing now, i feel like most/all of the bnfs have moved on to bts or other fandoms. then again there obviously might be some new good writers that I just don't know about. and yeah... head over to exomeme to get a feel but lots of drama lots of toxicity. when I was in ficdom we hand member exchanges and some pairing/type exchanges like au etc... I've seen some rted like "parents exchange" or "daddy exchange" whatever the fresh fuck and tbh I still can't tell if those were real or not. I guess imo downside is most of the wind in the sails is gone, upside is u have a lot of past good fic to dive into (if they haven't been taken down)

sorry I might be a negative former exo stan (kind of stopped keeping up with ficdom since early 2015) lmao so yeah grain of salt. maybe someone who is still in ficdom/has been since 2013-2014 can give u a better picture?

(Anonymous) 2016-02-26 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
fandom itself is okay. like i see a bunch of anons on exomeme complain about running into certain types of stans but honestly it's been easy for me to surround myself with level-headed stans. the most headache inducing thing going on rn is lay being too involved with solo stuff vs exo stuff. that's made ot8 more of a thing. but lay stans act like he's superior and above exo. i avoid lay stans ho listen to his bnf translators word as law and ot8ers

another annoying thing is that no activity goes without someone complaining about it or reading into every word they say too much. i guess a good thing about that is that it tells me who to unfollw/mute/block. i like to enjoy exo and their activites as they are and not read too deep and make a ten page analysis of a five word sentence

and ficdom, most bnf writers have moved to bts/other groups like anon above said, but there are still good writers and stories out there - you just have to go search for them. writers dont seem to post much on lj anymore; more aff and ao3. tho ao3 is usually seen as "quality fic" i still have to go through a bit of fic to find a good one. i've found more writers i enjoy on aff. and all the fic exchanges were too much. it was like there was an exchange for everything, but those seem to be slowly closing. for a while it seemed little fic was being produced because everyone was caught up in some exchange

it's not as live as it used to be, but if groups like bb and sj can still have an active fandom with fics being produced then exo definitely still can

(Anonymous) 2016-02-26 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
i'm not in exo fandom but i resent how all the good super junior/dbsk/shinee/infinite fic writers jumped ship to exo when they blew up. but i guess that's what makes a bnf popular lol

(Anonymous) 2016-02-26 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
the same thing happened to exo with bts lmao

(Anonymous) 2016-02-26 09:22 am (UTC)(link)
da, and i predict the same will happen with bts after sm's new bg debuts

(Anonymous) 2016-02-26 11:34 am (UTC)(link)
da I feel like the nct thing doesn't really lend itself to a ficdom? both in number of members and lack of... interactions. but who knows, people still went crazy for exo. I think ficdom wise I would see ikon (even tho they kinda died) monsta x or seventeen eventually drawing people away if they hit it big.

I guess bts feels like a special case to me because I've seen a lot of western fandom people get into it? or like... anime (this one haikyuu fanartist who got into bts) so we will see!!

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(Anonymous) 2016-02-26 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
fun fact: exomeme came from kfa because some anons here got so sick of exo talk overrunning the comments that they forced the exo talk out/exo anons left to make their own meme. there have been some huge dramas to come out of exomeme like different member stans fighting and anons stalking bnfs to post their personal pics and writing fic about them(?) but i forget why that happened, only that it did happen

(Anonymous) 2016-02-26 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
anons stalking bnfs to post their personal pics and writing fic about them

because of the hunger games au i think?

(Anonymous) 2016-02-26 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
nah it was just people looking at our twitter activity for no fucking reason

(Anonymous) 2016-02-26 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
it was ages before hunger games, exomeme had a friending meme and it went to hell in a handbasket

(Anonymous) 2016-02-26 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
i'm surprised how the bts meme died faster than the new suju meme

(Anonymous) 2016-02-26 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
da it's sad ;;; but i guess considering fandom demographics it makes sense (esp bc smaller fandoms like got7 have flourishing i think memes)

(Anonymous) 2016-02-27 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
did bts anons try and advertise it outside of memes?

(Anonymous) 2016-02-27 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
lol i was the mod of the sujumeme!!! i deleted it because it hurt to keep it up

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(Anonymous) 2016-02-26 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
the fic writing happened on exomeme, not kfa

(Anonymous) 2016-02-26 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
kfa had a little bit of boss/helper but idt it got much further than putting their nicknames into that iconic yunjae fisting fic excerpt

(Anonymous) 2016-02-26 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
that's what anon said?

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(Anonymous) 2016-02-26 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
idk the last big exo ficdom drama i remember is latinaeinstein demanding longer comments from her readers on her fic and people calling her out, some nicely and some...not so nicely, which ended in her deleting her journal because someone threatened to doxx her

(Anonymous) 2016-02-26 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
sa in regards to your question about exchanges, it got to the level where the mod of exo's lj comm made a post telling people to stop doing them lmao and then she started talking about giving kids sleeping pills or something. idr the context behind that comment tho

(Anonymous) 2016-02-26 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
da someone threatened to doxx her?? i thought she just got pissed off

(Anonymous) 2016-02-26 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah iirc someone threatened to send her fic to her school

(Anonymous) 2016-02-26 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
omg lmfao i remember both this and the scathing comment markerlimes??? left. beautiful

(Anonymous) 2016-02-26 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
i have mixed feelings about how that went down because, on one hand, she did have a point, that it's a good idea to leave authors comments and let them know that they're doing okay and to encourage them but how she went about it was really... mean and rude. aggressive even? she didn't deserve to feel threatened, but she was literally trying to guilt trip people into commenting on mainly her fics when she was already a writer who was getting a bunch of comments compared to a lot of the fandom?

(Anonymous) 2016-02-26 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
+1 yep pm