Around the beginning, fandom was mostly my friends, the other people in the local anime forum/community, and some people on Deviantart. Social media didn’t exist yet. Instead of drawing for strangers on the internet, I filled up pages of drawings in my notebooks and brought it to the weekend meetings to show my friends. Despite differences among the guys in the local community, everyone mostly respected each other’s preferences, I guess.
The internet was already a thing, but since it was pre-social media, communities used to be hosted in forums. In the case of our local anime community, despite meeting through a forum, the weekly meetings to just spend a nice time with everyone in a park while talking about games and manga and playing with cards, were the most important part of the dynamics.
— 28, She/They, Argentina
28, SHE/THEY, ARGENTINA
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