#livejournal

[bisexualbaker]

You know what, let's do this.

I know there's a decent percentage of Fandom Old Guard who are over here these days, but it can't be all of us. I want to know how useful a comparison it would be.

Like to numbers, reblog to sample size.

[asslover4]

Please participate in my research (also, if you say other, please put it in the tags/comments !)

[maniacalshen]

Remember how LiveJournal let you have several icons (or avatars or "pfps" as you might call them now)? And you'd carefully choose an icon to fit the subject matter, your tone, and the blog on which you were commenting or posting?

And it could make your argument look that much snarkier if you used a rude one? Or you could use it to add a multiplier to a joke?

And icons, alongside banners and wallpapers, were a whole genre of fanwork with its own design language, conventions, and norms, including carefully crediting people for them?

That was neat.

[spongebobssquarepants]

[oldinterneticons]

Top icons posted to @oldinterneticons in February 2025

[evadingreallife]

(By trope-specific i mean for example all the slash fics hosting websites, or the nsfw-only ones, etc)

[braxlrose]

this needs to be archived in american history

[d3molition-lov3rs]

modern day romance has nothing on whatever the fuck was going on on pete wentz's livejournal

[mikeywayholdsurfavalbum]

Mikey Way is holding amazing new mexico sunset LiveJournal post by Pete Wentz!

Requested by: @roughbuddy!

[skyreading]

I came across my old LJ icons from many many years ago and decided to remove the dust of this blog to post them here. Remember OTP 20 x 20 icon challenges? Yeah, these were for that :')

[bisexualbaker]

I really don't think these early poll results are going to reflect Tumblr demographics at large, but what the hell.

Hey, you! Do you remember LiveJournal? Remember all the fun you had there? Remember all the cool fics and communities and stuff?

Dreamwidth is basically LiveJournal but better!

Yes, LJ was more work than Tumblr is! Yes, it was harder to share images! But damned if it wasn't still a helluva lot of fun, and I miss it dearly!

We can still have that kind of fun on Dreamwidth!

Join me, everyone, and together we can rebuild better than we ever had it at LJ!

[thefawnfallacy]

I know it’s generally in good fun when making jokes about how young fujoshi in the early 2000s-2010s talked about queer couples (i.e. “yuri couple, yaoi couple, i see no difference love is love” or “if you police people’s identities you are not yaoiful at all”) but if you look at it from the lens of acknowledging that this, for many of them, is their first time even realising being queer was an option, it’s a very interesting study in realising that this is an attempt at inclusion from the perspective of someone who may not have ever heard of things like gender identity or sexuality beyond “boy” and “girl”.

[ao3demographicssurvey2024]

In the AO3 Demographics Survey 2024 - an unofficial demographics survey of 16,131 AO3 users - the most popular write-ins for fandom websites or apps were Amino, Quotev and Fanfiktion.de.

To see more analysis, including discussion of how well these results relate to fandom as a whole, please view the full results on AO3.

[shinelikethunder]

tumblr trying to make communities happen and adding individual-post-level interaction controls like turning off reblogs 🤝 discord trying to enable publicly-discoverable forum-like servers that still support granular permissions over who can see what 🤝 bluesky custom feeds and multiple ways to view/organize reply threads:

any sufficiently advanced social media site that bothers to listen to its users will eventually convergently evolve back into LiveJournal

[oldinterneticons]

Top icons OVERALL posted to @oldinterneticons in 2024