To quote a friend on Tumblr: "could you explain what's going on with the Harry Potter fandom, please? I really don't understand...
ofhouseadama: this would take me explaining a very dark period of time on fansites that are no longer around like empires crumbling into dust and a time when mugglenet prospered and the leaky cauldron was the happening place and shipping wars made shit that happens on tumblr look tame because the way sites were set up back then fans garnered political and social capital like ancient tyrants."