This article is at least 25 years too late. AT LEAST.
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List came out today
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Fandoms fluctuate, but the concept of content creators reacting to ships is decades and decades old, but thanks for assuming I didn't read!
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It's just a story about the tumblr list that came out today. Not a history of fan culture.
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It approaches the subject, like "oh! here's a novel new way kids these days are consuming media!" as if it hadn't been a prevalent mode of consumption before this.
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But I don’t believe the article claims this is a new phenomenon. The young Voltron, Shadowhunter, Yuri and Wynonna fans enjoyed the piece. And none of them care who wrote slash fiction on Usenet or zines back in the day. This was about now.
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Okay I may just be a bit excited that a
@nytimes editor responded to my tweet, so I do understand why fans of the ships mentioned are happy. I just think that articles need to go into shipping as a historical mode of consumption, and not something new and created in the age by (1 -
the prevalence of social media. Fans will always adapt new technologies to their fannish endeavors, like shipping (they were some of the first to adopt the Internet) and this new generation of fans adopting Tumblr are only doing what their foremothers have done. I also think (2
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Amazing journalism. No wonder people are unsubscribing.
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They added 308,000 subscribers, digitally, in the first quarter of the year, so your statement's a blatant fallacy.
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That's not something to be proud of unless you like paying to read articles that should have been written at least 20 years ago. Oh, and normalizing Nazis, that was a classic!
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Yes, because normalizing Nazis has everyrhing to do with your original statement and argument
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Doesn’t change the facts, but go off.
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Thank you for validating and acknowledging how important
#Supercorp is and naming it a top wlw ship

pic.twitter.com/u8oXZIprApThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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this is like....so late. like SO late.
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List came out today. Don't anger the klance faithful
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Ah, gotcha---but the headline and tweet don't convey that that's the reason for the piece!
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Many audiences !
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Totally feel that,but ya can't blame people for interpreting it the way it is presented
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