That icon looks familiar! :D (I think that that was a fantaken pic because I made that batch before I knew the ~rules, and so most of them were, but I'm not going to tell you to take them down or anything EMBRACE IT).
I will! After I send it in and everything, I'll probably flock it.
The thing is--most of the reasonable, more grown-up fans on tumblr 100% support it and it's only the whinier, more entitled fans (who are helplessly immature, but most of them are super young, so I'm hoping they'll outgrow it) who speak out against it, and I feel like I must be on the wrong side! But then I remember how fandom has ALWAYS worked in my experience and I remember that I'm not crazy.
THAT IS NOT WHAT FANDOM IS.
AMEN.
You do not get to commodify their existence and claim ownership of it. Period.
What makes me even MORE sick about it is that there are quite a few sites that are specifically set up for Korean fans only, and I think that's just gross. Like, it's so elitist--they know that there are all of us out here who will never get to see the boys live and we live for pics and video and they don't want to share it with us and WHY? THERE IS NO GOOD REASON. Ugh, I hate it.
(Also I have feelings about how all this is very much against the essence of art, too, but I think you've heard all that.)
Honestly I'm tempted to make what I want with whatever I want, giving credit of course, and if anyone doesn't like it they can go spin. Whine about having to close your sites. Watch me weep. If you share things instead of placing them under lock and key there's no reason to ever need to hide them or shut anything down.
I...may have done that. With this icon (and the others like it). I wanted it really bad and it's from a fancam. There isn't anything on the youtube page about not screencapping, so I did. And I made an icon. And the person who filmed it's name is credited on my userpics page. BOOM.
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I will! After I send it in and everything, I'll probably flock it.
The thing is--most of the reasonable, more grown-up fans on tumblr 100% support it and it's only the whinier, more entitled fans (who are helplessly immature, but most of them are super young, so I'm hoping they'll outgrow it) who speak out against it, and I feel like I must be on the wrong side! But then I remember how fandom has ALWAYS worked in my experience and I remember that I'm not crazy.
THAT IS NOT WHAT FANDOM IS.
AMEN.
You do not get to commodify their existence and claim ownership of it. Period.
What makes me even MORE sick about it is that there are quite a few sites that are specifically set up for Korean fans only, and I think that's just gross. Like, it's so elitist--they know that there are all of us out here who will never get to see the boys live and we live for pics and video and they don't want to share it with us and WHY? THERE IS NO GOOD REASON. Ugh, I hate it.
(Also I have feelings about how all this is very much against the essence of art, too, but I think you've heard all that.)
Honestly I'm tempted to make what I want with whatever I want, giving credit of course, and if anyone doesn't like it they can go spin. Whine about having to close your sites. Watch me weep. If you share things instead of placing them under lock and key there's no reason to ever need to hide them or shut anything down.
I...may have done that. With this icon (and the others like it). I wanted it really bad and it's from a fancam. There isn't anything on the youtube page about not screencapping, so I did. And I made an icon. And the person who filmed it's name is credited on my userpics page. BOOM.