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So the game is "if we say enough times how much we don't care about ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) lol_meme, it will be true", eh?
DEAR FANDOM,
-ME
Seriously, though. The meme is not a hatememe. We have relatively few sworn enemies, really. We don't have the attention span for it. We'll laugh at you for a couple pages -- at most -- and then we'll go back to talking about K-Pop, or whether shortening or butter is better for making brownies, or politics, or Bruce Springsteen. If you think we hate you, get the hell over yourself. If you know we hate you, sry2say you have probably done something to earn that hate. God knows that every time I've been called for doing something wanky, I've been totally guilty.
The meme is not a hatememe, though it is set up like one. Let me say that again: it is not a hatememe. It is like F_W in that if you act like a jackass, we will be all too happy to mock you for it. We do not, however, spend all our time mocking; it's not the reason for our existence, which is how we are different from F_W (to say nothing of the anonymity, which means that there's a lot less of the "LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT HOW ~WITTY~ I AM!" that you get with F_W). In fact, hating on specific fen takes up a relatively small percentage of our time. We also make a lot of tasteless jokes, and we squee over movies and tv shows and music, and we argue over ridiculous shit like shampoo, and we post sparkly marquees, and we listen to each others' problems and offer advice. Sometimes all at the same time. I have spent a year there -- more if you count the times I hung out at bookshop's anonymemes back in the day -- and honestly I think it's been incredibly good for me. I take myself a lot less seriously, laugh a lot more easily, and don't get nearly as worked up over stupid shit. I'm in it for lulz, now, and frankly I've never felt better.
And when I've needed it, I've got a ton of support from the people there, who didn't ask for anything in return and couldn't have if they wanted to, because it's all anonymous. I've paid it forward, writing memefic and offering advice and support for other people when I could.
If you have a problem with the meme, feel free to defriend me, here or at LJ or whatever, but of course that goes without saying.
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