Dearest, beloved, Fandom Wank.

I know you were looking forward to great excitement today. Some of you said words to me that indicated you anticipated fiery 'judgement' upon those who remained fresh and dewey white, those you call n00bs.

Anyway, you got today instead.

Stop anticipating things, we'll just break your hearts.

Sincerely,

Sepia P. Magpie, Esq.



PS: Use this post to reflect on how you could be better people. Or just fuck around in the comments.

As an anonmousey was so kind to write up a complete report at wank_report, I figured I should share this little wank with the rest of fandom_wank. The only thing I have added is fixing the html for the links and anything in bold text past this paragraph.

Gundam 00 is the latest in the Gundam anime franchise. It's tauted as the Post 9/11 Gundam for being realistic about war and being broadcast in Hi Def. Despite ample opportunity for wank-fests in this series so far the Gundam community has been generally civil. Or at least, I thought it was, but apparently our main wank generator here is a repeat offender (at least in the land of stupid_free.)

Yesterday...
News broke out that Bandai will be distributing Gundam 00 in North America.
LJ comm gundam00 breaks the news to its members
And seemingly, things are fine. Not too much ruckus.
Except moderator and owner of the comm, bucue, is already sewing the seeds of ire taking any opportunity he can to mention how much he truly hates dubs. Dubs suck, therefore he will not be investing any money in DVDs for the sub, because that only rewards lousy dubs.

Things don't get interesting until bucue makes a follow up post to the comm stating, once again, how dubs suck and that drama regarding the sub v dub debate will most likely ensue...with some...added incendiary comments. This post is locked.
But the epic fallout, for some reason, is not. (I think you can glean all that you miss from later comments.)
First, witness "rival" lj comm, gundam_00 calling bucue out
As you can gather from that post, bucue accused the gundam_00 mods of spamming his gundam00 comm. And as we find out later, apparently the spam in question may have been yaoi fic related.

Then bucue posts again, in very tl;dr fashion, trying to sort everything out

Like mousey says it's quite tl;dr as bucue gives us all s/h/it's thoughts on yaoifandom. But it does have a nice LOL worthy bit where s/he mentions they had mistaken a friending meme as wank and thus deleted it.

I don't know that there are many lols to be had in his actual post, but the comments once again point to the epic wankery that went down in the span of one night.
Which apparently included things such as deleting posts that weren't really violating the policy, "you guys misunderstand my humor!", banning people...including, from the first comment thread, one of the other moderators...


Oh and look! Godwin's!

Oh yes, a lot of tl;dr here - but the scope that can occur in one night is amazing. It's also amusing to note that the forecast of wank came about with the announcement of licensing, heralding sure fire Dub vs Sub wank...and yet none of the massive wank that occurred from this mod really had anything to do with dub vs sub opinions so much...

ETA: Thanks to sticks I have been pointed to the clairvoyantwank report of this wank which fills in the holes and brings more wank to the yard than the wank_report version of it.

clairvoyantwank version written up by hermisia

( Cut for length. )

ETA 2: Bucue is his ever tactful way has deleted entries and threatened to ban anyone who continues to complain about how he's been running the comm, as can be read in these saved screen shots of the wank, thanks to yosei.

ETA 3: Bucue has been ousted from his comm and has taken up the age old art of trolling under the name of tieriaisafag on various LJ journals using current gundam00 maintainer cerulean88's default icon. As can be seen here and here.

ETA 4: kaiser_chan has given an update including the post he made on the /m/ board at 4chan. 4chan thread is deleted now but deconcentrateat LJ made a cap of the thread.

Also links for screen caps of deleted wank from Bucue before he got booted has been provided by kaiser_chan:

We're not special and he's not babysitting us
he only told lies for our good
but wait, he's been telling the truth all along! He knows not of these lies we speak of!
anon comments are worthless. Nevermind all those examples of good anonymous comments in the past.
"go fuck yourself"

Ah, gundam00. A place where the gay mecha porn lovers of livejournal can unite and burble about stupid sexy Lockon in ~~*peace and harmony*~~! Right? RIGHT? Well, you're wrong!

Mod bucue posts a poll asking the members who their favorite Gundam meister is, and all seems to be going swimmingly. arsons makes a comment to another user, and our oh-so-gracious mod gives her a warning -- not because she said anything inflammatory, but because her icon just happens to contain the N-word.

And things just go downhill from there.

The post is locked to members only, but I managed to save the post here. Will edit with relevant threads in a bit!

Hoboy, is this gonna be a hard one. First time poster here, folks. Be gentle?

On the blog of anime webcomic Mistakes of Youth, a comic is released on November 3rd that shows just what artist/creator wildarmsheero's thinks of the latest series in the Gundam franchise, Gundam 00:


Whilst there is a little bit of wank in the comments on the blog entry, it's not until the very next post that wildarmsheero truly lets the wank fly, where he rages against the anime fans who enjoy Gundam 00 and the various shows like it:

This does it: the comments are immediatley filled with srs bsns and thoughts on yaoi Gundam. Whilst everyone tries to stay off flaming, there's enough srs bsns enough to float the Yamato.

But then DarkMirage initiates his counterattack on his blog in response, accusing wildarmsheero of being a sad nostalga freak!

( Anime bloggers are pussies! )
( You're a loser who buys pillowcases with anime girls on it! )
But that's not all! Just when it seemed that Ashley's flame had left him on the ropes, wildarmsheero comes back with his ultimate attack: ( HISSATSU: SUPER MANLY PODCAST PWNAGE!! )