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Posted in full at: https://ift.tt/2J8MTZd on March 31, 2018 at 08:09AM
Why Did Fans Flee LiveJournal, and Where Will They Go After Tumblr? (link to the Slate Article)
“What you’ll notice from the chart is that between 2007 and 2009, things were happening with LiveJournal that made people not like it anymore. From the chart, you’ll see that it didn’t start to precipitously dip until a couple of years after that. You can see that Tumblr and Archive of Our Own, or AO3, are both climbing around the same time. I think that those had to get popular enough, enough people moving there so that those were a place for people to move to, because when there’s nowhere for you to go, they don’t go. You can think of AO3 and Tumblr as sort of the archive side and the social side of LiveJournal, so there wasn’t a single place that people could move to, so instead you see people going to both of those places.”
Tags:fandom meta, fandom history, fandom platforms, ao3, tumbl, livejournal, archive of our own, DWCrosspost
Tumblr post (this is likely a reblog, and may have more pictures over there)
Why Did Fans Flee LiveJournal, and Where Will They Go After Tumblr? (link to the Slate Article)
“What you’ll notice from the chart is that between 2007 and 2009, things were happening with LiveJournal that made people not like it anymore. From the chart, you’ll see that it didn’t start to precipitously dip until a couple of years after that. You can see that Tumblr and Archive of Our Own, or AO3, are both climbing around the same time. I think that those had to get popular enough, enough people moving there so that those were a place for people to move to, because when there’s nowhere for you to go, they don’t go. You can think of AO3 and Tumblr as sort of the archive side and the social side of LiveJournal, so there wasn’t a single place that people could move to, so instead you see people going to both of those places.”
Tags:fandom meta, fandom history, fandom platforms, ao3, tumbl, livejournal, archive of our own, DWCrosspost
Tumblr post (this is likely a reblog, and may have more pictures over there)
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Date: 2018-04-01 04:12 pm (UTC)