>>261537alot more an observation about early nerd culture than anything else, remember how back then fan fiction wasnt as prevalent because everyone was a stickler for just information regurgitation over actual retrospection over the source material its the reason why og starwars fans were all boring faggots. They were entranced by a world because other than that they had literally nothing going on. These days especially with kpop you can kind of dip your body into the pool without seeing yourself as someone who belongs completely submerged in said pool. This excludes orbits and bts stans who are also boring faggots with nothing going on