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Loopywafflehead ([info]loopywafflehead) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2012-03-11 21:42:00


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Entry tags:fandom: sherlock holmes, tumblr

Tag war on Tumblr
Many thanks to the anon on wank_report for this. I’ve used your wording in this post and added a couple of things of my own.


Korean boy band SHINee announces that they're having a comeback, with a new mini-album called, for whatever reason, "Sherlock". Pictures are released.

Excited K-Pop fans take to their tumblrs! Many reblogs are made of the teaser pictures and tracks (examples here, here and here).

But lo! The Sherlock fandom is displeased! For you see, in their excitement, the Shawols have tagged their posts about obscure Korean pop bands with their tag.

Sherlockians shake their canes and yell, "Get off my lawn tag!" Shawols mostly just lol. And a tag war erupts:

* It would be really nice if all the fans of this green-haired boy could just stop cluttering up the Sherlock tag.

* Will everyone please stop tagging their shit for a moment?

* Dear butthurt people on Sherlock tag

* That moment when we tag everything Sherlock on purpose just to piss them off more.

* smh at all of these “mature” SHINee fans who are apologizing to the BBC Sherlock fans on behalf of the SHINee community.

* Wait wait wait...there is a legit fanwar going on between SHINee fans and Sherlock fans?"

* Yes, sweeties, we know YOUR Sherlock came first. But… the new album is also called Sherlock so… It’s our tag too, now.

* Oooh BURN

(More links at the end of the post.)

Then both fandoms blink in confusion as a random troll appears and spams the Sherlock tags with gay porn:

* Thank you, penis guy, for stopping a war. But seriously, stop with the penises.

* First..the Shawols tagged everything ”Sherlock”

then the sherlockians got mad



but now there’s a penis

Just another day in the SHINee World


* OMGAWD! MAKE THE RANDOM PENISES STOP! I just saw one with a watch on it. o.O?

* Just so the Sherlockians know, it isn’t SHINee fans spamming penises, okay?

* lol awks when the SHINee fandom and Sherlock fandom are having a war over the Sherlock tag then some random bitch starts posting penis in the tag.

TaemintWaffle sums up the conflict pretty succinctly in GIF form here (very image heavy post).

And of course kyuhynsass does the logical thing and writes crossover porn.

And manips crop up, too.


The rest of the links: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen, Seventeen.


ETA: Beware of the embedded music in many of the Tumblrs linked.

ETAx2: Great manip or greatest manip?

ETAx3: Some of the links were doubles. Sorry about that! They should all be fixed now.

ETAx4: Here, have a glorious icon (thanks, [info]mcity!).



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[info]mcity
2012-03-12 10:45 pm UTC (link)
I post MLP screencaps on my Tumblr. Whenever I use the "Spike" tag, I always wonder if this irritates people looking for the character from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

I never imagined hordes of penises.

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[info]iris
2012-03-12 10:49 pm UTC (link)
I've tried looking for pictures of Gale from Digital Devil Saga once or twice, and then I look at the tag and remember that the Hunger Games exists and is huge, and quietly shrug and just go back to surfing the main series tag for DDS instead.

It really doesn't strike me as the kind of irritation that's worth...well, everything in this post.

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[info]seanchaigirl
2012-03-13 05:23 am UTC (link)
Ok, I saw "MLP" and for a couple of minutes I was like, "Major League. . .Polo. . .?"

Clearly I need to give up on today and go to bed.

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[info]rosehiptea
2012-03-13 05:50 am UTC (link)
See, I'd be looking for the guy from Cowboy Bebop, except fortunately he has a last name.

Also I don't search on Tumblr tags much because I waste enough damn time on there already.

(I taught myself to make crappy .gifs out of music videos... I really need a life.)

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[info]mcity
2012-03-13 12:46 pm UTC (link)
Did you change the color balance on those gifs so they're all saturated and impressionistic?

Is your Tumblr designed so that it's fine for the dash but a complete pain in the neck to browse without it?

If not, you're still not at the bottom of the rabbit hole.

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[info]rosehiptea
2012-03-13 04:07 pm UTC (link)
I wouldn't know how to change the color balance, and my Tumblr is set to the factor defaults, so I guess I still have further to slip down.

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[info]mcity
2012-03-13 08:56 pm UTC (link)
I changed my tumblr's background color from the default, looked at the editing interface, and went "nope".

I mean, I never even took a web design class, and I still know the basics of usability, most prominently being "if you have a choice between pretty and functional, make it functional". Right after that is "Don't have music automatically playing unless that is the point of your website. You are not Pandora."

Seriously, why is your "next" link about 8px by 8px? Why on earth would anyone think that's a good idea? asdfghjkl;

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[info]rosehiptea
2012-03-13 09:02 pm UTC (link)
All I really wanted was one with an "about" section so I could put a little bio in there and no one would be surprised when they realize I'm older than their parents.

It's kind of ugly, but I don't really care.

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[info]the_sun_is_up
2012-03-16 11:47 pm UTC (link)
I never imagined hordes of penises.

Somebody needs to make an icon of that.

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This is probably not the weirdest thing I've written on an icon.
[info]mcity
2012-03-17 02:19 pm UTC (link)


Don't bother to credit me, just credit "Getty Creative #81774601" for the stock photo so people can Google and find it.

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Re: This is probably not the weirdest thing I've written on an icon.
[info]loopywafflehead
2012-03-20 12:47 pm UTC (link)
LMAO perfect. Adding to the post!

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