And while I DO fully believe this is just someone(s) not understanding how massive fandoms like ours work, it DOES feel almost intentionally mean to try to dice up our fandom up into 'specific' categories and divide us and our access to each other.
Like, no. Please. Being specific (when it's even needed or desired) is the POINT of sub-tags. AMT tags are very important and while my understanding of tag wrangling IS still very basic in the how-this-works-behind the scenes, and only as well understood as it is thanks to Melo, AMT or SOME kind of umbrella tag is crucial for multi-media fandoms. Superlove opted for Transformers(Franchise) as the umbrella rather than All Media, but it still does the same job.
It's a bit wild that Ao3 is doing this mere DAYS after I had a different site owner nodding as I struggled to make sense explaining something I've never had to put to words before cuz it's just so INTRINSIC to how our fandom functions and going, no, I get it, how about this? and making it work.
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And while I DO fully believe this is just someone(s) not understanding how massive fandoms like ours work, it DOES feel almost intentionally mean to try to dice up our fandom up into 'specific' categories and divide us and our access to each other.
Like, no. Please. Being specific (when it's even needed or desired) is the POINT of sub-tags. AMT tags are very important and while my understanding of tag wrangling IS still very basic in the how-this-works-behind the scenes, and only as well understood as it is thanks to Melo, AMT or SOME kind of umbrella tag is crucial for multi-media fandoms. Superlove opted for Transformers(Franchise) as the umbrella rather than All Media, but it still does the same job.
It's a bit wild that Ao3 is doing this mere DAYS after I had a different site owner nodding as I struggled to make sense explaining something I've never had to put to words before cuz it's just so INTRINSIC to how our fandom functions and going, no, I get it, how about this? and making it work.