#but now I do and it’s partially anthropological and also curiousity for something that

[halluciniwaynia]

my other favorite aspect of being into wtnv in 2024 and onwards is that there’s a decade plus of fandom content to go through and a decade plus of ideas and people being changed by the series to experience. it’s generally pretty rare to have that kind that kind of experience with something that was popularized in the zenith of the internet becoming centralized, when people were moving from places like MySpace, geo cities and personal websites to formats like tumblr (and for wtnv’s earlier history, deviantart). (The only other fandom I can recall with a property still updating that would fit this bill is homestuck btw) it’s a transient experience of enjoying someone else’s ghosts, of a childhood/teenagehood/young adulthood you never got to experience and history you never saw for yourself but felt enough for it to mean something now. it’s the raw, unfiltered joy of what is almost nostalgia for something you never cared about until very, very recently, and realizing “oh my god the podcast is actually really good on top of it”

#welcome to nightvale #welcome to night vale #I was aware of wtnv through an ex friend a very long time ago but given they were kind of an ass and I didn’t yet have #a reason to listen to wtnv/a long-standing podcast) #I never did #but now I do and it’s partially anthropological and also curiousity for something that #defined a lot of internet culture without being explicitly mentioned or talked about until like #recently. with the tumblr sexyman polls I mean #personal post #wtnv