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Your first hyperbole, I think? Any help appreciated.
Date: November 3rd, 2023 05:30 (UTC)The tumblr (and I'm not 100 percent certain it was not on twitter, only 99 percent) post began circa 2017 with newcomers to tumblr "thinking they were the first generation online fans" per the poster, who was a tumblr oldbie. OP began describing webrings, usenet, personal websites, Geocities and other aspects (I got into online fandom Dec. 2005 and recall these things, though they seemed on the downswing in fandom then) in a teasing way; many, many responded with their own reminiscences and the answers got huge. I recall that TVTropes and perhaps fanlore also mentioned this post, but haven't any luck searching them, either. :/
Yes, the answers pointed out that venerable "fandoms" such as Shakespeare contained groupies, for lack of a better word, and that Stoker's and other 19th century popular authors' works received parodies, self-insert fics ... it was like all of fandom in a massive post. I think a subheader was "the three ages of fandom" which meant that online oldbies on usenet, etc. were Gen 1, LiveJournal and fanfiction.net users were Gen 2, and current (2017) users made up Gen 3.