Originally posted by: Mallika-E-Bhais
Ara: Lmaooo!! Now YOU are my favourite!! It completely confounds me as to WHY everyone here thinks I am oh so confident because if you were to meet me irl, I am the EXACT OPPOSITE!! LMAOOO. But thank you, truly, for all this praise. I've been having a very hard time with a lot of things & now I shall be flying for a month!! 🤗
Oh you are completely on the money!! I so hate the term "fans" and "fandom." I take it as an insult when someone calls me some actor's fan. Except maybe SRK. He is gold. ⭐️
Meb, you should see this huuugggeee smile on my face! I'm legit grinning my jaw off! Totally, totally made my day, you did! You are confident, love. I guess everyone is, in a way. We just have different ways of showing it and different thresholds, if you get what I mean. I'm sure you slay in real life! And I'm rooting for you! Hard times pass, I hope you take kind lessons from yours and when they do pass look back in awe! I'm rooting and praying for you! All the best! May you wing it (whatever life throws at you)! ❤️
I've been acquainted and involved with a bare minumum of Fandoms and have observed plenty. And the shit that goes down there is crazy! I joined IF at a pretty young age, so it was fun but now that I think of it, it was fun but I had pretty much no idea what was going on. Then people started to leave IF and connect on other social media and I did that and that was a revelation! The horror stories that I heard and then observed. Then in 2013-2014 I joined IF back again to follow a TV show and/or write a fanfiction but wasn't involved in the forum. Then checked the Fandom on social media. And man, they made lunatics look absolutely sane and nice. Harassing random teenagers, celebrities asking their fans or instigating fans to harass 13-14 year olds to cover their lies, the level of harassment, pain, hurt and manipulation. It was a nightmare. I made a couple of IF friends due to that Fandom who quit before the Fandom got toxic and are now real life friends and that was much pretty much it.
But in all honesty, it seems fun but it f**ks you up in the real sense. All this toxicity. And I'd rather take what good people have to offer than to blindly obsess with them. To me, all celebrities are human and entitled to their humanity. But to their Fandoms they're immortal gods, and that's where our mentalities clash. All said, I'm waiting for something nice to show up, so I can meet nice and understanding people who understand my thought process and can live with it and then befriend them. We all can dream, can't we? 😆
Sorry for the rant.
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