Revisiting old fandoms

[ValyceNegative]

I was very into Warrior Cats books in the late 2000s but saying I was into its fandom would be largely incorrect. The only way I'd ever use the Wiki or check other sites online would be to look at the order I should read the Special Editions and Novellas into. I was really  exclusively into collecting all the volumes and reading into succession, and yeah I had imagined how my OC would be called and how she would like but I didn't even ever bother to draw her; maybe the single fandom-related WC video I had ever seen online at the time was the famous Firestar Doesn't Like Waffles, because that surpassed fandom walls and became a staple of the Internet itself, I suppose.
When I finally caught up to the last released volume at the time I decided to try out maybe Survivors or Seekers while waiting for new fighting kittykat books to be released and just like that the very next day I want "nah" and stopped checking for new books or reading this kind of fiction altogether.

Thennnn a few weeks ago my husband stumbles upon a video detailing the story of Warrior Cats and he's completely hooked. XD To save time he's listening to the audiobook version while we work so I'm revisiting these old stories by osmosis. One difference I noted is that when reading alone my eyes automatically skimmed through a lot of dialogue and never really thought they were written in a redundant manner but listening to them, the weight of "Y meowed. X replied." over and over drags you down a lot. I get it it's kid oriented fiction so it should be as clear as possible in setting scenes but you know...

The difference is that when my husband gets into hyperfixations, he likes to see what other people think and create about said subject, so he has immediately dived down into the nit and grit part of the fandom, something I had never done myself. With him I discovered fan animations and music videos of yesteryear that I had never ever seen, deep lore videos detailing life and death of OCs that have made the rounds online, "icebergs" controversies and all that. I never knew anything about it. I was just reading books.

Ironically I discovered a meme within the fandom saying that the vast majority of the WC fans had never even opened a book in their entire life, so I guess I would have still been an outcast even at the time. XD

[H0ppin_H00ligan]

Can't say i ever did a "proper" revisit, but pretty much EVERYONE is into it nowadays so it's near inavoidable

I used to be in the cookie run fandom from ages 13-14 (mostly because my sister made me download the game once so that we could play against each other but i only really GOT INTO it when i realized it actually had a fandom and wasn't just some no-name thing like most mobile games) this was back when cookie run: ovenbreak was the only game out so it was still an EXTREMELY niche game and had a pretty chill fandom all things considered. I just followed some twitter roleplay accounts and fanartists but that's about it. Eventually i just decided one day that i had enough fun and left the fandom.

When i look at the fandom and the direction the game series went in after i left, it just feels SO MUCH different than it was when i was in it!!! So many of the newer designs don't even look like gingerbread cookies anymore!!! It feels really weird seeing the quaint little fandom i was in when i was 13 turn into something so huge.