gryphonsegg | Those darn fandom kids!

There's a trend of people on LJ complaining/worrying about "fandom" moving to Tumblr and kids these days and the internet sky falling and such. I don't think this is any big deal because it seems to me that Tumblr is better suited than journals to posting screencaps, scans, and fan art, while journals are better suited to posting fic (especially long fic) and having fannish discussions that aren't a total pain to follow. Anyway, there's a lot of "Get off my lawn!" and "Weep, weep in these degenerate times for the passing of a nobler age!" in the fear of a Tumblrized planet. The best part is when such sentiments are expressed in the context of blaming the increasing popularity of Tumblr for the lack of activity on kink memes. I mean, kink memes are pretty new themselves, right? I know I've seen other people complaining that kink memes are ruining journal-based fandom by encouraging people to write shorter fic than they did back in the glory days.