Starmen.Net

Why is this dead?? Whut happned???

Just kidding. In all seriousness, I thought I’d ask everyone a question in the spirit of dead forums and communities: what small, unpopular, or dead fandom are you a part of? It doesn’t have to be a “dirty secret”, just anything that people ask “what’s that?” when you mention it. For me, I don’t have anything too unknown, but I like the donghua Heaven Official’s Blessing.

So what’s weird with you guys?

charlie and the chocolate factory moment
i’ve found a few fans on Deviantart but they’re either weird or dead

OFF is still p revelent, tho

I guess the closest for me is Resident Evil? Like, apart from Village I don’t hear anyone talk about it. And when they are being talked about, its because a new bad adaptation has come out or someone doesn’t like the direction of the franchise.

2 Stupid Dogs isn’t exactly obscure, but it is pretty old and you don’t see hardly any meaningful fandom for it or Super Secret Secret Squirrel, but both are very dear to my heart. Sifl and Olly is another good example. Some of it hasn’t aged super great, but overall it’s amazing, and there’s still not anything that does quite what it did. There’s one game that no longer even legally exists for purchase called Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord that similarly goes in my vast hall of amazing, weirdly integral-to-who-I-am media that nobody else seems to have any idea about. I’m sure I’ll think of others later too, but those are the core ones. I did grow up largely on the Mario and Zelda cartoons, but those are hardly a secret.

Drake Inferno:

2 Stupid Dogs.

That Hanna-Barbera reminds me, I love the show Space Ghost: Coast to Coast.

maximuspinpoint:

Why is this dead?? Whut happned???

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Just kidding. In all seriousness, I thought I’d ask everyone a question in the spirit of dead forums and communities: what small, unpopular, or dead fandom are you a part of? It doesn’t have to be a “dirty secret”, just anything that people ask “what’s that?” when you mention it. For me, I don’t have anything too unknown, but I like the donghua Heaven Official’s Blessing.

So what’s weird with you guys?

This, the r/shitpostbound “in” crowd, I guess my creative writing class is our own fandom. I was a SquidBoards regular for a bit but left after I go so close to this place it felt weird to be that much of a regular anywhere else. Though, I did meet Sandtide there, if anyone remembers her.

Sword of Dorks:

There are two people that are passionate Libromancer Lorists on Twitter. Me, and my friend Val.

Part of me wants to regular more forums, but another feels an obligation to stick to this site.

pio_dov:

Sword of Dorks:

There are two people that are passionate Libromancer Lorists on Twitter. Me, and my friend Val.

Part of me wants to regular more forums, but another feels an obligation to stick to this site.

I could shoot you a link to the Libromancer’s Bizarre Adventure discord server if you wanted it, though!

Sword of Dorks:

pio_dov:

Sword of Dorks:

There are two people that are passionate Libromancer Lorists on Twitter. Me, and my friend Val.

Part of me wants to regular more forums, but another feels an obligation to stick to this site.

I could shoot you a link to the Libromancer’s Bizarre Adventure discord server if you wanted it, though!

I don’t play yugioh… that’s a yugioh thing right

The Myst community, particularly with regards to Myst Online. Usually folks just look confused and say “there was a Myst Online?”

Pikmin
Ignore the fact a fourth game has been announced for this year

I’ve actually only ever poked my head into there like twice in my life, but the forum Goo Fans, a site for World Of Goo, is literally as dead as a forum can be, just checked and all it’s completely overrun by Russian spambots.

Say what you want about starmen.net being dead, but at least we mods still take strong care against spam and bots >:( The last post by an actual person I can find was almost a year ago, talking about a discord server they’ve apparently all fled to, but the existence of a starmen discord server hasn’t decreased our forum activity at all…

sweets:

Not so much a fandom. But when looking up videos for migraine relief audio a few years back, I found that there is a whole community of people who get migraines. I often come back to the same videos on my bad days and find new comments from people complaining about this shared issue. There’s an audience for everything, and the internet can be a weird place sometimes.

Now you say that, I realize I’m starting to frequent r/PVCs, r/ADHD, and r/OCD as well. I joined them all to ask to advice on an essay I was writing about all three, but there’s some interesting stuff there… okay besides r/OCD. It’s a nightmare, mostly people just ranting about their incredibly graphic intrusive thoughts and freaking out that the Idaho murderer had OCD. fun stuff.

PSINightmareEmpower:

Moral of the story: Starmen.net is superior to all other communities in every way

what about realearthbound.net

Well I liked the game EDGE so much I based my avvie off it. I was a pretty good speedrunner of it too but understandably the community for the game is small/non-existent

When I was little I loved PVC pipes. Still do. Made one of those ball throwing games out of a bunch

I do love my sneaky references

i’ve somewhat registered accounts on various furry websites, mostly ‘cause i’m a category 3 furry! And even though i’ve made a fursona but that’s because he’s actually one of many different modes that he can transform into, and he’s actually just an anthropomorphic sheep that got gene spliced with shapeshifter dna, and his actual name is Larry “Lambchop” Lesotho.

in all seriousness, though, there’s like one server for Niche and that’s it, the forums for it are pretty much dead