Online fandom: Have we gone too far or not far enough? - Page 8
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And these blurred disctinctions are going to get worse as the months roll by. What will happen when the first post-production images hit the Internet? Ordained or not, it is almost guaranteed they will be leaked. And if the older, more well-established Web sites rub their burned fingers and withhold the images, will the eager new Webmasters come late to the fray be so discreet? It depends in large part on who gets the next leak, and what they do with it.
Soul-searching is not something online fandoms seem to do well. We are the ProduceIt! generation, the self-appointed martyrs of mangled speech. We drive ourselves into frenzy over issues most people cannot comprehend. We don't just have to know, we have to tell. We're a tough bunch of people to get along with.
And I just felt that it needed saying. That's all.
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