t_and_b_anon

I get the meme to my inbox, too, and I felt it's been in a steady decline since the show ended. You're right, it's dropped noticeably since the changes, but I'm not entirely sure that's not related to the holiday season. I'd wait till early/mid-January before doing any absolute judgements on that front.

I wasn't talking specifically about kinkmemes, I just have the impression that a lot of fannishness has migrated to tumblr in general. If I compare, e.g. the activity on the Gundam Seed comm and the Taibani comm when both we're airing, Seed was a lot more active - at the time, LJ was a hub of fannish activity, to a degree it hasn't been in years (at least since Strikethrough). It's just a combination of LJ quite obviously not giving two shits about its customers and the development of a variety of "rivals" (i.e. DW, AO3, tumblr, Twitter and dA to some degree) - which I meant with fractured fandom. Back in the day you could find near everything on mailing lists, then it was webrings, then LJ - now it's just not that easy.

I'm really not objecting to a move to DW in absolute terms (I'm there myself), I'd just like to point out it's quite literally an irreversible decision if you do it. And in my experience a move to DW tends to kill near every anime-related comm since the people who're big into DW are usually people from Western fandoms and of an older average age than a lot of anime fans - many of them have done the ML -> webring -> LJ -> DW migration and are used to just packing up and leaving/going somewhere else when things die somewhere.

(different anon here)

Even if the generalization that anime fandom isn't active on DW is accurate (I think it's less active than LJ because a lot of fandoms are more active on LJ) there's only one way to change that. If anime fans refuse to move to DW because there are no anime fans on DW...

Plus, well - people have a lot of reasons to stick with this meme, from in-progress fills to the fact you don't actually need a DW account to take part. The DW comment-length issue alone means the idea of the meme moving there fills me with glee. I admit I'm biased - this comm is the only exception to my refusal to use LJ. I'd LOVE to be able to just never come back to LJ again, and have my favorite fandom be significantly more active on the site I use.

Different anon, except that I'm sitting here going "Did I post this comment in my sleep?" Because that's my situation too. Only come to LJ for Tiger & Bunny stuff anymore, mostly to post fills on the meme, and the comment length alone has made me wish ever since I learned about this meme that it was hosted on DW instead.