One of them could rescue a child from a burning building or cure cancer or bring about world peace and there would still be some desperate fool going "but what does it mean for Yunjae?" and "Do you think SM are pissed off?"
I know dealing with people who have essentially invented a conspiracy theory about your own life and can't be convinced otherwise pretty much goes with the territory for idols or anyone with a fannish following and that they only represent a tiny fraction of the audience, but it has to be annoying to be perpetually regarded as half a person whose only worth lies in propping up someone else's fantasy. I see people on tumblr today going "I'm sure they saw the banner - they must be soooo happy" - how does someone convince themselves of that? In their hearts, they must know that if either of them actually clocked those banners, all they're likely thinking is that they'll never get rid of these desperate weirdos, even in the army.
I'm fannish. I have been for years, across all sorts of fandoms. I read fic and there's piles of it on my computer. I have never even come close to regarding any of it as actually real and in a million years I wouldn't allude to it in the presence of any of the people portrayed in those fics. There's a small hardcore in every RL-based fandom who are so genuinely out there, who do the full tinhat "they're sending us secret messages through their choice of sweater and coffee drink". I do wonder what happens to them when their ship is genuinely dead in the water and the fandom is no longer active and they don't have their fellow hardcore shippers to reinforce the delusion. I guarantee that today, there are people who aren't content with writing a bit of barrack-room slash to get it out of their systems - they think it's actually happening right now.
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Date: 2015-10-02 08:28 am (UTC)I know dealing with people who have essentially invented a conspiracy theory about your own life and can't be convinced otherwise pretty much goes with the territory for idols or anyone with a fannish following and that they only represent a tiny fraction of the audience, but it has to be annoying to be perpetually regarded as half a person whose only worth lies in propping up someone else's fantasy. I see people on tumblr today going "I'm sure they saw the banner - they must be soooo happy" - how does someone convince themselves of that? In their hearts, they must know that if either of them actually clocked those banners, all they're likely thinking is that they'll never get rid of these desperate weirdos, even in the army.
I'm fannish. I have been for years, across all sorts of fandoms. I read fic and there's piles of it on my computer. I have never even come close to regarding any of it as actually real and in a million years I wouldn't allude to it in the presence of any of the people portrayed in those fics. There's a small hardcore in every RL-based fandom who are so genuinely out there, who do the full tinhat "they're sending us secret messages through their choice of sweater and coffee drink". I do wonder what happens to them when their ship is genuinely dead in the water and the fandom is no longer active and they don't have their fellow hardcore shippers to reinforce the delusion. I guarantee that today, there are people who aren't content with writing a bit of barrack-room slash to get it out of their systems - they think it's actually happening right now.