The difference between old and new fandoms is that new ones don’t really attempt to back up their resentment and entitlement with any knowledge (or even just meaningless redundant trivia) they just throw around viral catchphrases and buzzwords and insults and ‘gotchas’

Whatever FGC people transformed into over these last dozen years is probably the clearest example of this.

I feel like the move from forums to social media- where posts need to be shorter and ‘catchier’- is the biggest driver for this behavioral shift online, but the change happened almost as fast OFFline too. There’s a lot of factors at play really

As much as people crow about how things have “changed” and “progressed” it seems like people in all ‘geek’ circles- comics, TTG, games, cons, you name it- are way more quick to judge and more vulgar and spiteful across the board than they were back in the “bad old days”

There was a time when I wanted geeks like this to shut up more than anything, and now I just want them back. I’d take D&D getting interrupted by debates over whether the Enterprise-D could beat a Star Destroyer over someone pulling out their “favorite Hassan clips”. Just vile.