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kradeelav>> @hausofdecline.bsky.social When I was 8, I showed my mom the first Jigglypuff episode of Pokémon and she stared at the screen with a Tommy Lee Jones "No Country for Old Men" expression. I didn't understand how she felt right up until the point I saw The Amazing Digital Circus.
‪> @theyoungdoyler.bsky.social‬ I remember so vividly being in my early 20s, watching gravity falls and having the dawning realization a few episodes in: "oh I just like this as a kid's cartoon. it's well made and enjoyable. but I'm not a kid anymore"
> It was liberating not feeling that manic fandom drive for the latest sensation
‪> @theyoungdoyler.bsky.social‬ I remember so vividly being in my early 20s, watching gravity falls and having the dawning realization a few episodes in: "oh I just like this as a kid's cartoon. it's well made and enjoyable. but I'm not a kid anymore"
> It was liberating not feeling that manic fandom drive for the latest sensation
this is kinda a cool if bittersweet phenomenon.
no shade but i specifically remember feeling this way about homestuck & when vine started becoming popular. realized video was extremely not my Thing, and that hetalia/naruto was really the last mainstream fandom i enjoyed being around as somebody of that generation. i say hetalia & homestuck because they're both web based media works with very sprawling (and infamous) fandoms, but hetalia felt very livejournal, deviantart, and text-ish, wheras homestuck's fandom was... elsewhere.
when was y'alls moment of experiencing this?
no shade but i specifically remember feeling this way about homestuck & when vine started becoming popular. realized video was extremely not my Thing, and that hetalia/naruto was really the last mainstream fandom i enjoyed being around as somebody of that generation. i say hetalia & homestuck because they're both web based media works with very sprawling (and infamous) fandoms, but hetalia felt very livejournal, deviantart, and text-ish, wheras homestuck's fandom was... elsewhere.
when was y'alls moment of experiencing this?
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Date: 2026-04-12 07:07 pm (UTC)