At some point all that batshit would get to you. Then you'd find yourself doing the online equivalent of a "primal scream" in a forum.
I wasn't exactly wanking away, but eeeevery once in awhile someone would start wank and I'd find myself getting sucked into it.
[Dear, God, I remembered this one time I made a joke on TwOP — some throw-away line about James Marsters chewing the scenery "like that ham always does" but beyond that I can't even remember what I said or why it pissed people off. Right after that several dozen Spike fans invaded a general Buffy message board where I was "known" to hang out. They created almost 100 sock puppet accounts and and started flooding the board with messages about how they were going to track me down in RL and kick my ass or turn my ass in to the police for making felony threats against Marsters, as well as endless thread after endless thread of how much I sucked, and fake descriptions of my drug-addled and sexually fueled exploits with animals...no shit! That was the fall out from a throw-away line because I made a joke about how I wasn't all that impressed with Marster's acting. *boggles* In the end, the board owner had to shut down all new account creation, set the board to private, and then force all new people who wanted to join to go through a moderation process to prevent another invasion. It was nuts.]
The thing that kind of gets me is that online Buffy (well, Whedon) fandom is still just as crazy, but it's crazy in a completely different way. Rather than the crazy being about 'ships or characters, it's more centered on the Cult-of-Joss itself and cuts across several fandoms.
That's why when I see some good ol' fashioned "Xander-hate wank" (like on the Darkhorse Boards right this very second) it almost gives me a warm fuzzy because it's so...quaint.
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Do you want to know the worst part about it?
At some point all that batshit would get to you. Then you'd find yourself doing the online equivalent of a "primal scream" in a forum.
I wasn't exactly wanking away, but eeeevery once in awhile someone would start wank and I'd find myself getting sucked into it.
[Dear, God, I remembered this one time I made a joke on TwOP — some throw-away line about James Marsters chewing the scenery "like that ham always does" but beyond that I can't even remember what I said or why it pissed people off. Right after that several dozen Spike fans invaded a general Buffy message board where I was "known" to hang out. They created almost 100 sock puppet accounts and and started flooding the board with messages about how they were going to track me down in RL and kick my ass or turn my ass in to the police for making felony threats against Marsters, as well as endless thread after endless thread of how much I sucked, and fake descriptions of my drug-addled and sexually fueled exploits with animals...no shit! That was the fall out from a throw-away line because I made a joke about how I wasn't all that impressed with Marster's acting. *boggles* In the end, the board owner had to shut down all new account creation, set the board to private, and then force all new people who wanted to join to go through a moderation process to prevent another invasion. It was nuts.]
The thing that kind of gets me is that online Buffy (well, Whedon) fandom is still just as crazy, but it's crazy in a completely different way. Rather than the crazy being about 'ships or characters, it's more centered on the Cult-of-Joss itself and cuts across several fandoms.
That's why when I see some good ol' fashioned "Xander-hate wank" (like on the Darkhorse Boards right this very second) it almost gives me a warm fuzzy because it's so...quaint.