Date: 2012-01-03 03:30 pm (UTC)
hostilecrayon: (Fuck!)
Batshit nuts is fifty steps up from how the fandom used to be. IT WAS SO BAD. SO BAD. No, seriously, I got thrown out of my first GW community for a pairing label. No, not the ACTUAL PAIRING, but for how I notated it. I'm seriously not joking AT ALL.

You can see my response to this ridiculous pairing nonsense in this post from 2006: I'd Like To Say

I was one of the first to adopt the new notation, and me and the creator of it made a comm for it AND THE WORLD ENDED. Seriously, I lost SO MANY friends and was kicked out of a comm over SOME SYMBOLS. X.x Since then, I have made fic, but kept a serious distance from the fandom. Honestly, the fandom ruined the love for a lot of people, and especially when I got really into the Hikago fandom, I realized that GW was just the worst fandom ever. People were mean, rude and VERY sensitive if they even have a SLIGHT notion that you MAY be stepping on their toes a little - not that they gave a flying fuck about stepping on YOUR toes. It was pure madness. The het fans hated the yaoi fans and vice versa, and after the Great Pairing Notation War of 2006, the yaoi fandom essentially cracked in half. It was ugly and ridiculous, and there are still people today who hate me over some math symbols, and others who think I don't count because I wasn't in the fandom in 2001 when it really took off - apparently coming in in 2005 took all my validity as a GW fandom kid away.

IT WAS SO BAD. I have never ever ever ever been in a fandom that cared so much about who tops - there were literally whole groups of people who would flat out refuse to read any story if Duo topped (which is why I prefer Duo to top; I'm trying to balance it out XDDD) and the worst part was the writers who wrote the worst fics, as far as bad cliches and horrible seme/uke abuse go, were the Big Name Faces in the fandom and smacked around anyone who even seemed like they might not agree with EVERYTHING THEY'VE EVER THOUGHT EVER. And of course, they had all these groupies to come and yell at you, too, since they were practically mindless drones anyway. Duo acting like a little bitch girl and Heero being BIG STRONG DOMINEERING MAN? Awesome. Loving the concept of equality in a relationship so much you have a notation for it? WORST AND MOST INSULTING THING TO EVER EXIST.

...Yeah. YEAH. There just are no words.
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