Great Daria Fandom Implosion of 2007: Difference between revisions

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The '''Great Daria Fandom Implosion of 2007''' was a combination of events, many of them unrelated and previously announced as far back as the fall of 2006, that led to the loss of a number of long-time ''Daria'' fans and writers, and the loss or dormancy of various major websites supporting the fandom. (Dormancy here means the website was no longer updated.) Curiously, the Implosion took place slightly over ten years after ''Daria'' first aired.

The '''Great Daria Fandom Implosion of 2007''' was a combination of events, many of them unrelated and previously announced as far back as the fall of 2006, that led to the loss of a number of long-time ''Daria'' fans and writers, and the loss or dormancy of various major websites supporting the fandom. (Dormancy here means the website was no longer updated.) Some of these events were benign; some were not. Curiously, the Implosion took place slightly over ten years after ''Daria'' first aired.

Among the website casualties were:

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* [[Outpost Daria]]: dormant after 5/20/07, future uncertain

[[The Daria Shrine]], [[The Green Sink]], and [[The Sh33p's Fluff]] had not been undated in many months by this period, further limiting the options for posting new fanworks or reading new fandom-related material. [[Sick, Sad World]] is the lone exception to the trend, having updated for the first time since February ~~2005~~ on July 17, 2007. The [[Lawndale Sun-Herald (website)|Lawndale Sun-Herald]] continues to be updated on a more-or-less regular basis.

[[The Daria Shrine]], [[The Green Sink]], and [[The Sh33p's Fluff]] had not been undated in many months by this period, further limiting the options for posting new fanworks or reading new fandom-related material. [[Sick, Sad World]] is the lone exception to the trend, having updated for the first time since February 2006 on July 17, 2007. The [[Lawndale Sun-Herald (website)|Lawndale Sun-Herald]] continues to be updated on a more-or-less regular basis.

The lack of website updates provoked a movement to create a new ''Daria'' fandom supersite, [[Lawndale Online]] (still in progress).