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[ SECRET POST #6729 ]

⌈ Secret Post #6729 ⌋

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Just because you can't stand her doesn't mean she doesn't have other followers or subscribers or friends in the fandom who might care what happens to her. It's not like she's flouncing out of a Reddit thread or a Youtube comment section or whatever.

Fandom is littered with “they suddenly disappeared” and never knowing if they just decided to step back or if something forced them to.

An announced departure ≠ a flounce.

thank you, I was trying to parse my thoughts and this is it. we have so many ghosted wips and vanished friends in fandom, I'm kind of struggling to think why an announcement is bad? if it's a heads-up if you're only following me for X fandom, I'm not going to be in X fandom anymore, that's pretty nice of them.

so long as it isn't a backdoor flounce where the next you hear from them they're writing massive callout rants about former fandom and saying their new fandom is so much better. that shit's hilarious but also a bad look, yes.

Agreed. I kinda see why OP feels like that, since sometimes we just see people who are THAT ANNOYING that we just cannot escape (especially in smaller fandoms). Still. An announcement? Not that bad, OR that big of a deal.

Whoopie-doopie. Be glad your fandom annoyance has bailed, and don't let their announcement-to-all live rent free in your head.

So much this.

I've never understood the people who get all upset at people making a post about saying goodbye. It's a weird thing to get angry about. I hope all of my fandom friends would make a post letting me know what's going on rather than just ghosting.

Depends on where the announcement is made, tbh.

On their personal journal? Sure, makes sense.

Tagged on the end of a fic to let readers know no more fics are coming? Sure, makes sense.

Random standalone post announcing they're leaving in a community space, no fanworks attached, purely a goodbye note because they consider themselves important enough to be relevant to everyone? Mmmm maybe rethink that one.

I still think it's appropriate if they've been active in fandom and that community. If they're a lurker and that's their first post? No. But otherwise community spots are fine imo.

We'll have to disagree. I don't think there's any need to take people's scrolling time to announce your personal arrival or departure without any fanwork or fandom related thing attached, and that goes for anybody.

If they've been active and stopped posting and people wonder where they are, they can always find them on their personal blog and find the post about it. It kinda takes a big head to think a post only about yourself and your status is relevant to the fandom at large.

Generally speaking, the people who'd be seeing that post are either people who follow that person, or people who follow the fandom tag. In the first, the 'scrolling time' is a choice they made in following that person, and in the second... well, from my experience, you're already wasting enough of your time scrolling through unrelated nonsense, one more post ain't gonna kill ya.

ayrt - It's not a big head, it is knowing you have people who care about you and one specific place you know they'll all see. And the idea of taking people's scrolling time away from them is pretty hilarious.

I have authors that I don't follow their personal blogs but I know they'll post to certain communities so it's easier to follow the community as a catch all for all the authors/artists. I find it very kind when people will let their community know they're stepping back from the internet for whatever reason.

Yeah, this is how I tend to feel about it, too. I get that the OP hates this particular writer's guts and is happy they're leaving, but that's no argument for berating fans who let others know they're moving on. Usually, I want to know. And even when I don't know the person or have feelings about their leaving, I don't assume no one else will care.

If you're talking about posting on AO3, that's against the TOS and should be removed regardless of your personal feelings.

If you're talking about Tumblr or wherever, where the heck do you think these posts are coming from, if not personal blogs? Just because they're including a fandom tag that you (gasp!) have to scroll through doesn't make it any less a post in that person's personal blog.

Reddit, Discord, LJ/DW even where small communities are still active. That's why I say it depends on the place, but people seem to think every place is Tumblr, so it's hard to have a discussion about it.

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(Anonymous) - 2025-06-09 02:58 (UTC) - Expand

take people's scrolling time

oh noes!

I think it's incredibly antisocial to argue that people shouldn't say good-bye to communities that they've become part of, and to speak of people as if they exist merely to provide you with content.

We’re on our high horses here today, I see.

personally, I feel like a real dick because I kinda wish my least fave would up and bail like that. Man... I'd probably treasure the post. And so would a number of others I know.

I'm probably doing this wrong...

NGL but I feel this. There are certain writers in my fandom I *wish* would burn out, but no, they keep cranking out another low quality, repetitive fic every few days. One person announced they were leaving the fandom because they’d run out of ideas (and the fandom had slowed down so they were getting less validation for their minimal efforts), boo hoo. This was after they’d posted over 100 samey whump fics in a year. Guess what, they were back on their BS a few months later.

Hope Secret OP enjoys the peace, and the writer stays gone!

Just block them, for goodness' sake.

This is incredibly petty and I'm happy for you, OP, haha. I think I'm glad they announced their departure, though, because it seems like it was a cathartic moment for you.

I left without making announcements once (only told a few close friends in private) and then eventually I found out that people wondered where I'd gone enough that someone asked my friend if they knew what happened and then made a public post about it to inform others (which got a bunch of comments saying they were wondering too and we're glad to know I was ok). So... yeah I guess some people do prefer to know when you leave.

On the one hand, happy for you OP. Losing a writer whose works flood up the fic lists/fandom in which you don't like is nice.

On the other hand, I found your "they don't need to announce their departure" comment petty on a tasteless level.
I think any writer has a right to make an announcement, even if they weren't a popular writer. You never know who made friends with them or who enjoyed their fics. And even if no one is sad to see them leave, I don't think there is any harm in announcing a departure if the individual was a creator.
I mean, I understand when I don't like someone and every single thing they do is annoying, so I hope you can appreciate that announcement as a celebratory thing more than one of annoyance. If not, eh. Who are we but strangers?

This here is why I rarely engage with fandom any longer. I want to put my energy toward spending time in spaces where people care about one another, not in ones where everyone views one another so instrumentally that saying "good-bye" is treated as stupid.

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