>>6451 >I understand where your sentiment comes from, but having been part of many online communities since before I was a teen, I can tell you that your experience of people who don't fit into the community hivemind quickly overran it and before long became the majority - which is how I'm even on imageboards instead of classic forums now. this is the curse and the usual pattern that happens every single time. Even if the hivemind disappears, at least, it was fun while it lasted.
>It's oddly rare in some ways to find people who accuse anybody with any kind of life at all of being a casual, and I think from personal experience of not even slightly trying to have any RL success at all I can say that the eventual realization is that there is no core cadre of people just as determined to be an obsessed loser as you are - that is, you realize pretty much for the first time that you're actually an individual, and that feeling of the delusion of many other basement dwellers backing you up and being behind you all the way crumbling as you realize it's just you and nobody else - this reflection doesn´t arise all that often because well, the internet was meant for weirdos and was dominated by weirdos who would define the term nerd. Then, they try to feel more superior from other casuals because they feel more dedicated and therefore, they deserve a title for doing so. It´s what happens when one takes the hobby too seriously.
The /endpone/ feel is not because of feeling just like oldfags but more like a complaint of imagining that this is /mlp/ when you don´t have enough users to shitpost like that board. More like being a dedicated fan or not, it relies more on the realization that you are on an altbooru meant for a specific franchise. Unlike /b/, /v/ or /pol/, the amount of users are quite limited and it´s doomed to have a sense of community. I see no benefit in copying /mlp/ because other sties like 9chan and poni.fun have attempted to do that yet they lasted two months or something like that.
>I think everyone could use realizing something like that. it doesn´t come out all that often but that introspection would be a healthy for certain users who try to deny their own circumstances. That´s why they rely on their hobbies just to escape from reality.
>It's incredible how much our minds rely on groupthink, and a beyond weird feeling to have groupthink truly broken for the first time. I too searched for years for a pure community, but ultimately I think I'm happy having finally realized that a community is actually different people interacting and not a hivemind like the nintendo forums of my childhood seemed to be. I don´t know what actually defines an ideal fan of any community. In my case, I prefer using the phrase "I just happen to like the show, so I am seen as a fan" before claiming out there that I am fan. Just one thing: don´t waste your time at finding the ideal community, just find your loyal partners that accompany you for the ride or a place that you can rely on and post something that you like to share out there. Internet communities tend to fall under the same patterns eventually to a lesser or greater degree because human beings act like that, the psychology doesn´t change except for a different context that leads to those interactions.
Hell, I have had to review an episode because the general was delivering the impression that this was a /mu/sic board instead of a MLP imageboard just to balance the lack of pony content. That shows how out of the topic itself, people have different interests and those fans are brought together by just one common thing.
