#what is this phenomenon even called

[petorahs]

every so often when i do pokemon art a certain fic writer whose username i recognize sees it and it feels like getting shot at because i literally read their fics when i was like. 11. im 20 now. i feel honored yet seen in a way i cant explain. like i never thought we could interact normally cause as a kid who lurked on the internet their works felt like a gift and they were an untouchable hero of sorts. its like santa. i just interacted with santa claus.

#LIKE GIRL. i looked up to you so much #what is this phenomenon even called #like within those 9 years i did so much growing and changing yet this author STILL likes pokemon.... #a one constant in life. their love for the media. thats kinda sweet #also its like. it feels very surreal that now its not like i hold them to a pedestal theyre like a normal internet fandom person #and im a normal internet fandom person #AND THATS WHAT GETS ME??? my art... enabling me to be seen.... #connecting me... with a 'childhood hero'... connecting me with... santa. #aishi.txt #wtf am i even talking about anyways end ramble. just a teehee haha moment

[dr3amofagame]

yeah i also think that a lot of people treated the characthers as the ccs, the c!dteam being the more obvious example. And it's not wrong but seeing people claming that's the canon and not just a interpretation it's kinda annoying. Like Tag your fics as oc and admit it's Your version not very loyal to canon, it's not bad, it's okay. For me the only problema always was the people who does want to be loyal to canon but on purpose pushed things that are very far from it

tbh i feel like i didn't see too much c!dteam in fanworks 🤷 and in all fairness to that one, c!dteam did have a group dynamic. if you look at the early smp specifically, that dynamic was actually...really close to the ccs. obviously that diverged later on but each member of the c!dteam had their storylines pretty inextricably linked to the c!dteam, in a way. not to say that there isn't mischaracterization for the c!dteam in fanon, bc there's plenty, but as opposed to...well, c!sbi as an example, at least c!dteam as a group actually existed in the lore

#my asks !! #disk horse #tw discourse #fanon and oocness is going to happen no matter what fandom ur in #but the specific phenomenon of 'ooc as in it's literally the ccs but we're calling it dsmp fic bc we're borrowing elements of the dsmp' #'and therefore claiming that these characters ARE the c!s even tho they behave nothing like them' #is pretty specific to this fandom imo

[chawarin-panich]

no bigger pet peeve of mine than people who must continually point out how superior they are because they do not ‘fall’ for branded pair marketing alskdjffjdjsjsjddhdj congrats on your moral superiority for being the ONLY person who’s ever realized that branded pairs are fake 😂😂

You serve the same function in my life as every homophobe I’ve met in my last decade in fandom who clutched their pearls at RPF shipping and made fandom hostile because their idols could never be gay

…would you like a cookie?

#not to mention one of these blogs that consistently do this is 100% a firstkhao shipper #thank you for the content I hope your hypocrisy brings you peace aksjshdhdjsakakshdh #what to even call this phenomenon #internalized rpf phobia 😂😂😂😂

[bugsbenefit]

scary that there's still Will bowlcut haters around. like... that's his core character design, it looks nice too. sorry to all the different hairstyle enjoyers out there but Will without a bowlcut simply wouldn't be Will to me. that's the side effect of them doubling down on that one single hairstyle for 8 years. they can style it different or make it messier sure, but he needs Some version of a bowlcut otherwise who is that

#Duffers did it to themselves #if they'd change the haircut Now i'll call the s5 hair department a flop no hesitation #not because it would look bad but simply because That's Not My Will that's just noah schnapp with a wig #also unrelated side tangent ik this is just about silly hcs but anytime i talk about Will's hair i get annoyed about how the #bowlcut became the minion meme equivalent of the fandom #i simply refuse to believe people actually hate bowlcuts that much that has to be some kind of moist phenomenon #i've never in my life seen someone irl make fun of bowlcuts or personally even noticed one as 'strange' #but go online and there's apparently consensus that bowlcuts are cringe or something? lmao? #you can probably imagine how surprised i was when i found the st fandom for the first time and everyone just kept talking about Will's hair #when it's literally a normal ass haircut #and meanwhile no one realized that Mike also had a bowlcut for 3 seasons. i swear 'Will bowlcut lmaoo' just became a meme #i'm convinced half of these people don't even know what a bowlcut looks like since they apparently can't recognize one #side tangent over this had nothing to do with what people are talking about actually 😭 #my furstration about the way a fucking haircut out of all things became the funny stinger of the show apparently never goes away #and comes back out any time i type the word hair.... oh well #ignore the tags i was having a moment (flashback having nothing to say after a show besides 'the hairrr 😭')

[heyclickadee]

Suddenly and forcibly reminded of the time in sixth grade when I got it into my head that starting a UFO/Paranormal club would be a great way to make friends.

(Narrator voice: It was not. It was not a great way to make friends.)

#a tetherball year for sure #listen I found one of those “unsolved mystery’ books at the exact wrong time #it was a ‘new hyperfixation unlocked’ moment #and now I just avoid talking about it because like #the inevitable follow up question is “oh so you believe this stuff?’ #No I don’t actually #even a little bit #I just think the stories are interesting #like the slide-rock bolter #the most ridiculous cryptid #it’s a mountain whale that slides down and eats people #that’s a landslide #what you’re talking about is a naturally occurring phenomenon called a landslide #or rockslide #or avalanche #all of which happen frequently in mountainous areas #especially when you’re MINING and disturbing the ground #do I nevertheless love slide-rock bolter stories? #yep #they’re fun #in part because they’re ridiculous

[cyeayt]

me: so we're all aware of sexyman ammon flexing on top of his pile of 40 severed bandit arms, but what we need to be talking about is the joseph smith sphinx, which is not just a prop in cult classic movie "plan10 from outer space", but is a real piece in gilgal sculpture garden, carved with innovative oxyacetylene torch te- huh i wonder what my nonmormon followers think of this

my exmormon followers: honestly you kinda lost us too

#exmo #exmormonism #the first bit is like niche tumblr history of a poll someone did a few months ago #the other one is just #very niche irl history #i wouldnt call plan10 a cult classic id call it a cult phenomenon #id say it has the same number of followers and same appeal of the ninth street whale #anyway #i had a very nice day at gilgal even if it did kinda feel like i was high #the sphinx is the basis of thought for all that surrounds it #she is beauty she is grace shes the sphinx with josephs face #dad what does that mean #dont call me father boy i haven't approved your union yet. go assemble my pants

[homophyte]

it is interesting to me that ive seen lately (n yknow this is subjective and likely not any real social force just what ive seen) many queer people simultaneously talking about taking back and embodying unpalatable and ‘unmarketable’ queerness (the recent return to the terms faggot and transsexual come to mind) which i think is pretty evidently shaped by the conservative moment were in of demonizing queer ppl and especially gnc and trans people as predators--it reads as a return to queer isolationism in the face of external hostility, imo--while at the same time ive seen a lot of rallying around the “original” 6 stripe rainbow flag as opposed to any of the purportedly ‘factional’ flags of different queer identities, with the assumption being different identity flags divide us while the rainbow flag encompasses everyone and its kinda fascinating to me bc the rainbow flag is probably the single most marketable and palatable and uncontroversial symbols of queerness which has been seamlessly uptaken by those who wish to sell it back to us as gets pointed out every pride month with all the cringey pride merch.... i dunno you could maybe take that as a point of hypocrisy and claim the queer community is itself in a conservative moment rn where its returning to a sense of history and historical continuity (perhaps even out of that sense of external threat) or even that the queer community has for some time been in a conservative moment given the like, decade of identity discourse and lashing out at any people deemed to not have a sufficiently established history or however we should categorize the bihets/ace discourse/transtrender-tucute discourse/pan discourse/bi lesbians discourse (because lets be frank its essentially all the same discourse just keeping up its momentum by leapfroging from one target to the next) which i think is, like, SOMEWHAT true but not entirely? its more interesting to me, in any case, as an expression of a conflict the queer community is facing given that current state of affairs RE antitransness and that very recent history. like, the simultaneous need to retreat to a safe sense of community which is welcoming to the very things the outer world is demonizing ie mutable gender, complex or contradictory experiences of gender, gender expression which is hostile to the cis binary, but also the ways in which it has to grapple with those discourses which have largely defined the community infighting for again the past decade. its queer people begging the question ‘how can we make the queer community welcoming to the girlfags and genderfucks and tboys who are being threatened when we have spent so much time making the queer community a hostile place for anyone with a non-conventional or not easily (or even just palatably) sortable sense of queer identity’. and the answer it seems to be grappling with at the moment is like, welcoming all that diversity of experience but being absolutely averse to naming it. yes we love all the fuckery with gender and sexuality never be marketable but like, ew, why are you calling yourself [insert microlabel here]. you can be genderweird but you cant call yourself genderweird. you can only exist as queer in the broadest possible way (the all-inclusive gay pride flag!) but if you try to name the specifics or use those identity labels weve been fighting over for years youre doing it wrong (the progress pride flag is now ugly and cringey and ‘too much’). i think theres something also to the way (at least on this site) transmisogynistic discourses have really taken hold as legitimate (though yknow i wont downplay how much a problem transmisogyny has like. always been in queer spaces no matter what) in the name of protecting n defending trans people. like its just regurgitated transmisogyny but its being mobilized supposedly in the service of helping trans people. idk its definitely getting a little late for me to string this together fully coherently but theres a throughline there, in the ways certain ideas are being consolidated and reified as ‘yes were more progressive now!’ when i think theres definitely something to question there in terms of like...are we? are we actually? are we doing better by the people were trying to help or are we setting strict standards and forcing ppl to adhere to them again?

#myposts #this is long and honestly probably Nothing #i dont even really have a way of proving its the same group of people saying both things except fro anecdotally seeing it #and even thats not proof either is a real social force with like power. i could be entirely wrong on every count here #but i do think theres something to the idea that like #as ive seen said #yknow 'ace discourse never ended you all just accepted ace people didnt deserve support and then moved on w those views internalized' #i think thats more broadly true for like. all those discourses i mentioned. and for the transmisogyny i alluded to #but honestly i dont even want to name the specific phenomenon im talking abt there bc those people. scare me. #but yknow ill say it ive felt way more pressure lately to not call myself pan than i did at the height of pan discourse #before it became cringe to care about it and instead of actively shitting on pan ppl we moved on to passively doing it #ive largely started just. calling myself bi to avoid the arguement. which i predicted i would have to do years ago #and now look at me doing it! not really a fluke that its happening now. i think #which isnt to say were moving 'backwards' per se but that these ideas are not now and never have been really challenged #so weve just internalized their logics--reactionary logics--and its having an interesting effect now that we need a progressive community #for our safety. #now we cant say anything about it because to bring it up is jeopardizing everything weve built and the people were keeping safe! #cause we dont count as people deserving of safety were disruptors who only belong when we dont make noise. idk. or thats how i feel #again i dont really know if this is true at all im more just...thinking through it i think #basically like what im seeing--i think--comes from simultaneously that need to be unmarketable in the face of hostility #coming into conflict with a decade of momentum to make queers solely marketable. and i think thats producing some interesting--but sucky #--discourses in the current moment #last disclaimer that i might and am likely totally wrong! okay lauren out. post send *nervous sweating*

[vanweezer]

so glad easter weekend is fucking over so i dont have to see everyone xtianity posting until maybe december. fuck off i don't know bible holidays

#problems! #'youre not traumatized your church had foldable chairs' if this is your mindset i need you to fuck off forever. if youre normal hi #days like these make me feel like im missing out on yet another social phenomenon or change in behavior #im fine with being atheist or nontheist or a nonbeliever or what the fuck ever else people want to call it but like. #even in the little things like memes and even paintings of white j/sus or whatever just make me feel sick and lightheaded #like im surrounded by leds and voices too tall for the rooms theyre in. it just feels weird and makes me feel weirdfor not being in on #yet anotherjoke #if youre a mutual and youve made it this far hi. sorry. could you tag mentions of the bible or xtianity #you dont have to and obviously if we're friends and you have faith that makes its way into socials i dont care at all and my words #should not dictate how you act online or how you make sense of the world irl but you already knew that #just wanted to ask that. in a way that only people who wanted to would want to. if that makes sense

[orc-apologist]

it's funny how when you'll give actual explanations as to why people are racist or transphobic or something similar, like how that happens and why it's happening now out of all times, that go beyond "white people/cishet people evil" so many people will instantly attack you for "apologia"

I think it kinda comes from this idea that identity politics has pushed that people of the unmarked categories like male white and cishet can't possibly struggle with things in life. but economic crises, which we have been in for 16 years now, affect everyone that's not part of the ruling class. prolonged economic instability alienates people from the status quo, from established parties, rhetoric and such. they begin to look elsewhere for solutions. the powers that be know to counteract this with reactionary politics. using scapegoating they'll promise the return to an (often imaginary) better yesterday, the very definition of reactionary politics.

these ideas sound plausible and actionable. things used to be better after all. those scapegoats used to not be there (as visibly) after all.

the way of solving this isn't to go "waaahh people are evil and fascism is back, woe is me" but to a) point out that these reactionary politics are not going to solve the problem because they are not the cause b) point out the actual cause of the problem (capitalism) c) offer actual alternatives (organizing, strikes, expropriating the bourgeoisie, and eventually total labor democracy)

#and no fascism isn't back and it's not going to be back in most of the western world #there's a difference between a military or police dictatorship which is what the US might degenerate into under trump #and actual fascism #most of the things everyone points to as fascist aren't actually fascist they're just reactionary #even genocide isn't unique to fascism. israel for example is a liberal democracy and it's still committing genocide. #all you need for genocide is a class society. its political manifestation is irrelevant tho some forms are certainly easier to do a genocid #in #it's important to understand that so you have no illusions in liberal democracy which is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie #fascism isn't this generally evil society that we are constantly at the brink of falling back into #it was a very specific historical phenomenon #in which the petty bourgeoisie were used by totalitarian reactionaries as a battering ram against the working class #to violently suppress labor organization strikes and the potential downfall of capitalism and the rise of socialism #that was its role in germany italy and spain #it wouldn't work anymore today in the western world because the petty bourgeoisie has dwindled in numbers #as they are doomed to in the monopolization process of capitalist market anarchy #they are no longer a significant percentage of the population and no longer have the numbers to suppress the working class like that #because that's what differentiates fascism from a military dictatorship for example #a military dictatorship is a small group of people violently wrangling control of the state from its current holders #and abusing ALL of society for their personal gain. including the ruling class. marxists call this bonapartism #because napoleon bonaparte was the first to do so under capitalism #most importantly this means a military dictatorship does not have a mass base and relies on ruling by the sword #which makes it highly unstable and turns all of society against it #fascism was so dangerous because it DID have a mass base! the petty bourgeoisie! #vast amounts of them were in total support of fascist rule and actively pursued it. it wasn't just a small group of people. #this made the systems a lot more stable and a lot more powerful because they had large parts of society at their bidding #that sort of power and stability can no longer occur because their social base has mostly disappeared #they can whip up enough reactionary anger in the working class to perhaps GET to power #but as soon as a fascist politician starts going after unions strikes wages #launching the incredibly direct attacks against the working class that fascism always did #that voter base is going to turn against them very quickly

[disaster-vampire]

why do culturally christian americans think it's okay to rewrite the mythology of cultures that have nothing to do with them to make them fit their ideals

#i see this done SO much to jewish culture both from actual practicing christians and pagans & atheists that were raised christian #like they seem to have that same belief of superiority over judaism and other religions more broadly #like folks appropriating lilith to girlbossify her #or rewriting every single greek myth again to girlbossify or generally give them modern politics & morals #for a while people were also doing it with like. old european fairy tales. #like remember that post that was like what if red riding hood was hijabi? like bro. have you considered maybe looking into actual #traditional muslim stories rather than slapping a muslim character over another culture and calling it a muslim story? #and there were various replies to that post. and these were clearly people with disney brainrot who wanted more diverse stories #but weren't willing to actually go look for them and would have rather slapped a different culture on a character who is still #fundamentally european. like. idk this is a whole thing. #like i kinda feel this way even towards disney's princess & the frog. there was an actual african version of that story. don't get me wrong #i liked it. and i don't have any say on whether or not it's good rep. because i'm not african american #like i like that it's an adaptation put into a different setting and different time period. but there was still already an african version #of the fairy tale. am i making sense #i don't even know if this has a name. idk if it can be classified as cultural appropriation. it's similar? #anyway. i hate this whole phenomenon.

[schrodingers-romy]

So apparently that weird y2k overlay thingy is a thing Tumblr actually did. Genuinely thought I hallucinated it last night but I am apparently more mentally stable than I thought it's just the Tumblr developers who went off the deep end.

#Romy can Talk #Y2K #Can someone tell me why this happened #I'm not even joking I thought it was a dream/hallucination #Me at three am: *sees this* maybe I need to sleep #Tumblr y2k #What even is this phenomenon called like why did this happen??? #1999

[thevegetablewhichnoonedaresname]

added ur commentary to the post hope u don’t mind!! was nice to learn the real explanation behind it :)

yes, of course! not at all! i hope i didn't come off as too self-righteous or correct-y or anything. i learned cool things today too because i've only ever read FMA in English, so i didn't even realize automail was one of those types of words until i saw your post :D

#i saw your tags too! don't even worry about it #japanese orthography is wack but very cool #i should probably also clarify that while i do know enough japanese to understand and use it a bit i am not a native speaker #and this is not like. taken from the word of arakawa on her thought process #after i wrote those tags i went down a fun rabbit hole because i couldn't remember what the heck this phenomenon is called #but it's gikun! if you want to learn more then that and ''nonstandard kanji readings'' are good things to look for #''kirakira names'' operate off the same principle and those are a fun thing to read about too #like how Light Yagami from Death Note has his name spelled 月 but pronounced ライト #DONE RAMBLING. DONE. again thank you for the initial post because i love thinking and talking about this stuff

[florafaunaandeldritchhorrors]

the amount of people going “wait din’s his last name” when no it still very clearly comes first is wild to me. family name. the phrase you are looking for is family name. 

#i'm not even sure what to call this phenomenon #it's not exactly anglocentrism because obviously english is not the only language that does given name family name #broken silence #the mandalorian spoilers #din djarin #anyways it's super interesting that cin vhetin doesn't mean you have to abandon you original culture's naming traditions #you can even pass them down to your kid

[bakedbananners]

Awesome when my brother starts talking at me but walking away while he does it and mumbling and then somehow is confused when I don’t know what the fuck he’s saying and is like “? Why is that my fault?”

#don’t reblog #men are so fucking annoying #what is the phenomenon called when they try to make everything an argument and be contradictory alm literally all the time #and then when you get rightfully irritated they’re like why are you overreacting? why are you getting emotional? #when you aren’t even emotional in the first place you’re just pointing out that they’re being difficult for no reason #like is it that hard to take responsibility and acknowledge fault? no you have to throw accusations at people to rile them up #then turn the conversation around and point fingers #sorry this got long. it’s a symptom of a bigger problem #me talking

[blortch]

While talking to other rlmblr bloggers I realised I like RLM videos much much less but for some reason I’m the “bigger fan” (for lack of some better way to describe this phenomenon) because I have encyclopedic knowledge of the canon of all their dumb movies and shows.

#to me the entertaining part is making the posts and interacting with people... #not even the thing itself im sorrey... #finding out niche stuff is good to prank people #or to make posts about it #well i say making posts but lik talkin in chats yea #thos discord DMs.... some stuf can b found... #rlmblr #blortchmod #i watch videos like i'm collecting pokemon cards and the pokemon dont even look that cool #they make so many american and not only that previous-generation-american references #i cant keep up lol the material is CLEARLY not for me #some would call this a tsundere phenomenon. do with this info what you will

[theoctopuscats]

Ok so I just got a TikTok and I’ve got some ~observations~. One is that someone will post a video like “you aren’t X identity Y is *not* valid ever how dare you think you have any right… etc etc” and then a full %20 of the comments will be like “ONG I was so sacred until I remembered I literally am X identity!”. And like… I don’t know why but that’s the biggest tip-off of some kind of weird gatekeeping going on. Like something’s not right here if even the people you’re trying to defend feel attached by what your saying.

#I have no idea what causes this phenomenon #but I really don’t think it’s a good thing #and sometimes the thing they’re calling people out for isn’t even a problem #or maybe everyone in (certain) lgbtq spaces is so prepared to get jumped on for any persvable missdeed that they just asume… #that their being attacked #lgbt discourse #tiktok