Talk:Covid-19 and Fandom

Fanwork Examples?

It seems like a good idea to start adding some example fanworks to this page, but I'm debating whether to go about it by adding them as examples under the fanwork trends section, or creating a new section. Thoughts? I know it can get a bit unwieldy/endless once you start adding examples for such a wide pan-fandom page, but it also seems odd not to have any. --enchantedsleeper (talk) 13:17, 01 May 2020 (UTC)

I'm in favour of a new section, because I expect a lot of other trends and a lot of fics. But as of right now, I think they could be added to the fanfic trends section and we could split them off later. --Auntags (talk) 14:26, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

On a related note, pixiv has ~6 pages on art tagged for masks (see here), most of it anime style girls in facemasks. There’s probably some fan work examples in here, but I know nothing about anime/manga. If anyone with a better knowledge base wants to take a peak? — Error cascade (talk) 17:04, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Title

I'm going to change the page title to COVID-19 and Fandom if no one objects. —caes (talk) 20:58, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

I'm not opposed to the move, but I'm wondering why a redirect wouldn't be sufficient? There is already one redirect, Coronavirus and Fandom, and we're going to have more! Looking at the Ao3 tags, fans are using a lot of different variations, with different capitalization and spacing. As someone who lives in a part of the world that isn't capitalizing Covid, I find the capitalization a bit... anxiety inducing. But I'm happy to go with the majority decision. --Auntags (talk) 14:19, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

"Increase in Fanfiction" expand section to other fanac?

In particular, a lot of fandoms experienced a "renaissance" or explosive growth in 2020, to the point that fans have a name for the phenomenon (e.g. Marauderstok, ATLA Renaissance). I don't know if anyone has explicitly tied covid-19 causally to these resurgences, but since it happened at the same time it seems fair enough to cover on this page? -- Quaelegit (talk) 00:18, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

That's pure speculation at this point, what Wikipedia would dismiss out of hand as "original research". If you don't have a source for it, it's pure guesswork on your part. (And by the way, we saw no such boom in traditional SF fandom.) --Orangemike (talk) 00:58, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

User:Quaelegit, I had these saved that might be interesting for the ATLA resurgence discussion: The resurgence of Avatar isn’t just nostalgia, it’s nourishment for the soul, 'The Last Airbender' in the Time of Covid-19, Why Avatar: The Last Airbender was the Quarantine Show We Needed (note, this one is not a https link). (For anyone reading in the future, I put some links on Talk:Marauderstok that might have interest, too)-- Cookies and chaos (talk) 09:47, 19 May 2024 (UTC)