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Old 09-08-2014, 06:36 PM   #21
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Ok, you just tell that to all the turtlecesters I'm friends with.
Those people are shunned to the darkest corners of deviantart and tumblr. We don't want to acknowledge them.

I don't mind "furry" ships, I did like Raph's relationship with Ninjara in Archie, but I'm too keen on animalxanimal pairings...even if they are mutants.
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Old 09-08-2014, 06:57 PM   #22
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I mean there times when character does things that makes no sense or having idiot ball moments like when Shredder left a mutated Baxter in his labs and now thanks to him, he has a monster lose in his HQ. He could have lock him up or at least tried to.
Can't say it's crossed my mind much, at most a passing thought that didn't stick around long. Good show, I just roll with it mostly.

What else is going on h-- Uh. Ok... carry on. *flees thread*

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Old 09-08-2014, 07:01 PM   #23
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Those people are shunned to the darkest corners of deviantart and tumblr. We don't want to acknowledge them.

I don't mind "furry" ships, I did like Raph's relationship with Ninjara in Archie, but I'm too keen on animalxanimal pairings...even if they are mutants.
I acknowledge them since they're a pretty large part of the fanbase. I'm willing to bet there are several closet turtlecesters that regularly post on this forum. And I'm ok with them. As I said, I'm friends with lots of them.

But it ain't my thing either. I like the mutant/animal ships the most. But the difference is that almost none of the ones I support are canon. :V
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Old 09-08-2014, 07:35 PM   #24
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Have you heard that phase? It use to describe any show that would skip the general logistics like...well pick any twilight zone episode or maybe even a doctor who episode that was written by Steven Moffat, and I feel that term has come to described recent Nick TMNT episodes. So do you think in order to enjoy watching it anymore, you would have stop taking this show seriously?
Glob, yes. I've realized this season that the episodes I enjoy the most are the ones which don't try to actually be dramatic, because the more serious episodes require me to think about the plot, and this series' plots and emotional beats take to analysis like paper takes to fire. The Doctor Who by Moffat comparison is damn near perfect.

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The Nick TMNT series attracted an anime/tumblr/fangirl crowd to the fandom that had never existed before.
They've always existed. What's different now is that they have a space that welcomes them and has allowed them to visibly and semi-safely express themselves.
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They've always existed. What's different now is that they have a space that welcomes them and has allowed them to visibly and semi-safely express themselves.
Well at least tumblr keeps them away from the forums, so I guess all is good. I imagine most of those girls have never gotten into TMNT before and the Nick cartoon is their first exposure to it, so they assume the antics between the brothers and the Don/April thing is the norm for the franchise.
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Old 09-08-2014, 08:38 PM   #26
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Well at least tumblr keeps them away from the forums, so I guess all is good. I imagine most of those girls have never gotten into TMNT before and the Nick cartoon is their first exposure to it, so they assume the antics between the brothers and the Don/April thing is the norm for the franchise.
Who cares what they assume, and who cares if Nick is their first exposure to it? Most of us never read the comics first.
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Old 09-08-2014, 08:59 PM   #27
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I imagine most of those girls have never gotten into TMNT before and the Nick cartoon is their first exposure to it
Well if that really is the case for many, who's doing this with the Nick Turtles, teens? In that case I'm inclined to just leave well enough alone and let them have their thing, assuming we're talking about the so-called "shipping" and more intimate stuff. Just the harmless fantasy of youngsters.
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Old 09-08-2014, 09:10 PM   #28
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Maybe this is a good opportunity to experiment with itself and try new things since there is no real plot driven storyline other then Karai at this point. I guess I wouldn't mind watching a couple pizza face episodes like this. I guess it beats watching another monster of the week.
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Well at least tumblr keeps them away from the forums, so I guess all is good. I imagine most of those girls have never gotten into TMNT before and the Nick cartoon is their first exposure to it, so they assume the antics between the brothers and the Don/April thing is the norm for the franchise.
It depends on their age. A lot of them are old enough to have seen the 2003 series at the very least, but I wouldn't doubt there's a lot of newbies mixed in there too.

And let me tell you, the age of Tumblr fandom bloggers is pretty varied. I see 13-15 year olds on there a lot, but there's also a sizeable portion of people that are in their 20s.

EDIT: Also, not all of them are girls. Stop implying only the girls could be "bad".
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I still don't get this tumblr stuff, but I guess if I used it I would.

I signed up for it long ago as a friend talked me into it but I've yet to use or even really frequent it.
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There is little to no shipping in TMNT since the one canon pairing (April/Casey) is expected to happen in every series so not much thought comes to it.

Also TMNT has a lack of female characters, besides Karai and a few others, so there's not much pairings to go for. And people don't like giving the TMNT love interests in general.
Wrong: Heterosexist.

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Those people are shunned to the darkest corners of deviantart and tumblr. We don't want to acknowledge them.

I don't mind "furry" ships, I did like Raph's relationship with Ninjara in Archie, but I'm too keen on animalxanimal pairings...even if they are mutants.
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Well at least tumblr keeps them away from the forums, so I guess all is good.
Wrong: Gatekeepers like you keep the female fanbase on places like DeviantArt and Tumblr. I've heard from numerous women who say they avoid this board like the plague because they don't want to subject themselves to the impotent fanboy rage.

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I imagine most of those girls have never gotten into TMNT before and the Nick cartoon is their first exposure to it, so they assume the antics between the brothers and the Don/April thing is the norm for the franchise.
Wrong.
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Old 09-09-2014, 06:37 AM   #32
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Wrong: Gatekeepers like you keep the female fanbase on places like DeviantArt and Tumblr. I've heard from numerous women who say they avoid this board like the plague because they don't want to subject themselves to the impotent fanboy rage.
Most of the girls I'm friends with [and most of my friends are girls] say the same thing. Some of them have actually told me they consider me quite brave for posting here as much as I do. They are scared of the people here.
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Most of the girls I'm friends with [and most of my friends are girls] say the same thing. Some of them have actually told me they consider me quite brave for posting here as much as I do. They are scared of the people here.
I hear that all the time as well, and even well before the "Shellshocked" interview with Ciro.
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Wrong: Gatekeepers like you keep the female fanbase on places like DeviantArt and Tumblr. I've heard from numerous women who say they avoid this board like the plague because they don't want to subject themselves to the impotent fanboy rage.
Well that sounds sexist right there actually, almost as if "fanboys" are the ones who get into impotent rage. I'm pretty sure there's just as much heated impotent fangirl rage (maybe not here, but the internet in general) with different topics, for example if it came to shipping, over who's better for Nick April with the whole Donnie vs. Casey situation. It's more of an issue of being overtly passionate over a franchise, and having far more people at a particular webpage rather than gender behavior.

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Most of the girls I'm friends with [and most of my friends are girls] say the same thing. Some of them have actually told me they consider me quite brave for posting here as much as I do. They are scared of the people here.
Really? I know these forums have their share of sly trolls and cynics, like any website that hosts forums, but it's the internet. The reason Deviantart and Tumblr appear to be safer is because anyone can make some random remote webpage that's difficult to find, and be able to isolate themselves to their close friends and contacts (with blocking features), but with the Technodrome Forums, it's fairly distinct in being one of the, if not the biggest, forum site for TMNT, so there's going to be a lot more people showing up, carrying with them their criticisms and their internet personalities. Therefore, there's bound to be someone out there who vehemently opposes one's viewpoint/opinion in some way. I'm not saying I support the harsh environment, but that's the culture of this form of communication when there's an increasing amount of people arriving at a site that have some anonymity.

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Well that sounds sexist right there actually, almost as if "fanboys" are the ones who get into impotent rage. I'm pretty sure there's just as much heated impotent fangirl rage (maybe not here, but the internet in general) with different topics, for example if it came to shipping, over who's better for Nick April with the whole Donnie vs. Casey situation. It's more of an issue of being overtly passionate over a franchise, and having far more people at a particular webpage rather than gender behavior.
Yes, yes. #NotAllFanboys.
First off, you assume I think fanboys are all of a specific gender, which I don't. I'm a woman, and identify as a fanboy.

Secondly, don't confuse passion with being an outright jerk. It's not passion that I have a problem with, it's the hostile attitude that, "SOMEONE IS PLAYING WITH THEIR TOYS WRONG!" The idea that there's only one-true-way to be a fan, and anyone who deviates from that needs be "Shunned to the darkest corners" of another part of the web.

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Really? I know these forums have their share of sly trolls and cynics, like any website that hosts forums, but it's the internet. The reason Deviantart and Tumblr appear to be safer is because anyone can make some random remote webpage that's difficult to find, and be able to isolate themselves to their close friends and contacts (with blocking features), but with the Technodrome Forums, it's fairly distinct in being one of the, if not the biggest, forum site for TMNT, so there's going to be a lot more people showing up, carrying with them their criticisms and their internet personalities. Therefore, there's bound to be someone out there who vehemently opposes one's viewpoint/opinion in some way. I'm not saying I support the harsh environment, but that's the culture of this form of communication when there's an increasing amount of people that have some anonymity.
If you're not fighting to dismantle a toxic status quo, then you are in fact supporting it.

Tumblr and DeviantArt don't "appear" to be safer because they allow a certain level of security, they ARE safer because they allow a certain level of security. And women go there so they don't have to deal with Jerk Gatekeepers.
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Really? I know these forums have their share of sly trolls and cynics, like any website that hosts forums, but it's the internet. The reason Deviantart and Tumblr appear to be safer is because anyone can make some random remote webpage that's difficult to find, and be able to isolate themselves to their close friends and contacts (with blocking features), but with the Technodrome Forums, it's fairly distinct in being one of the, if not the biggest, forum site for TMNT, so there's going to be a lot more people showing up, carrying with them their criticisms and their internet personalities. Therefore, there's bound to be someone out there who vehemently opposes one's viewpoint/opinion in some way. I'm not saying I support the harsh environment, but that's the culture of this form of communication when there's an increasing amount of people arriving at a site that have some anonymity.
These forums have far more than their fair share of trolls and cynics, and I say this as one myself, but I present myself that way here on purpose because the environment here is far more toxic than a place like Tumblr. I put up my walls here, because I know this type of environment can be damaging. I've frequented fandom forums for over a decade, and I've been on Tumblr for half a decade -- I can say with confidence that Tumblr is a far safer environment, but it's not because you can isolate yourself, since it's just as easy to be dogpiled on Tumblr as it is here [why else do people hate SJWs? They sic their followers on people. I've been a victim of that several times myself]. It's because the percentage of harmful people is lower than the percentage of harmful people on almost any fandom forum, not just this one.

That and forums aren't exempt from their own stereotypes and reputations. Just as we tend to view Tumblr as an SJW breeding ground, other places view forums as rabid fanboy hives that are often sexist, racist, homophobic, and filled with people that think they're way smarter than they actually are. [They're also more likely to contain people like CyberCubed that lord their opinion over others and treat it as fact. That's a stereotype too.] The only fandom forums I've been to that didn't carry a large userbase that conformed to these stereotypes were run by and for female and LGBT fans.

Also, many of these problems are multiplied when the userbase has lots of gamers or western comic book fans. This forum has both.

This environment is not "just the internet".
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These forums have far more than their fair share of trolls and cynics, and I say this as one myself, but I present myself that way here on purpose because the environment here is far more toxic than a place like Tumblr. I put up my walls here, because I know this type of environment can be damaging. I've frequented fandom forums for over a decade, and I've been on Tumblr for half a decade -- I can say with confidence that Tumblr is a far safer environment, but it's not because you can isolate yourself, since it's just as easy to be dogpiled on Tumblr as it is here [why else do people hate SJWs? They sic their followers on people. I've been a victim of that several times myself]. It's because the percentage of harmful people is lower than the percentage of harmful people on almost any fandom forum, not just this one.

That and forums aren't exempt from their own stereotypes and reputations. Just as we tend to view Tumblr as an SJW breeding ground, other places view forums as rabid fanboy hives that are often sexist, racist, homophobic, and filled with people that think they're way smarter than they actually are. [They're also more likely to contain people like CyberCubed that lord their opinion over others and treat it as fact. That's a stereotype too.] The only fandom forums I've been to that didn't carry a large userbase that conformed to these stereotypes were run by and for female and LGBT fans.

Also, many of these problems are multiplied when the userbase has lots of gamers or western comic book fans. This forum has both.

This environment is not "just the internet".
This entire explanation is foreign and strange to me.

I guess I don't frequent the Internet enough to get it fully.

Getting down to it, I don't frequent many fandom boards. I come here, a Detective Conan board, a You Can't Do That on Television forum and that's pretty much all I can think of that I go to semi regularly. You know, scratch that. I go to those other ones once in a blue moon. I watch videos way more.
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I used to be a regular on the InvisionFree Support Forums. I saw peoples' forums every day, trying to help them with their problems, joining other forums, moderating them, the works. My whole life revolved around forums for years.

But I do consider it a good thing that you can't relate to my post. Means you've probably had it easier than me in regards to fandoms on the internet. That's good.
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Most discussions on tumblr resolve around shipping and, "which female character is the best" for other fandom's.

Since TMNT has a lack of major female characters, and shipping in TMNT has always been practically non-existent, that kind of stuff doesn't really work here. The TMNT fandom hasn't been sitting here for the last 25 years saying, "Which girl should each Turtle wind up with?" and so forth.

This is not anime. This is not shipping. This is not female character wars. This is TMNT.
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Most discussions on tumblr resolve around shipping and, "which female character is the best" for other fandom's.

Since TMNT has a lack of major female characters, and shipping in TMNT has always been practically non-existent, that kind of stuff doesn't really work here. The TMNT fandom hasn't been sitting here for the last 25 years saying, "Which girl should each Turtle wind up with?" and so forth.

This is not anime. This is not shipping. This is not female character wars. This is TMNT.
This is gatekeeping.
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