Re: MEME PET PEEVES

(Anonymous) 2023-04-29 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
maybe it's bias on my side as well, but i'm definitely seeing people staying longer with the same characters than they used to, and i spot fandoms on repeat for entire stretches of months on bakerstreet. i'm comparing this to, say, 2010s, when you'd have people migrating from the latest It anime to its line-up successor in a month, though.

da

(Anonymous) 2023-04-30 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
i think it's like a new canon comes out, 50 people all start playing from it, 40 of them drop their characters in a week, but the other 10 stick with their characters for the next 5 years. if enough rpers remain from the initial boom of interest it lasts for years, and if they don't the canon vanishes pretty quickly.

Re: da

(Anonymous) 2023-04-30 10:21 am (UTC)(link)
i think it also depends a lot on the canon itself. stuff like movies tends to have a shorter staying period because you've only got about two hours worth of canon and there's really only so many times most people want to watch a movie, even one they really love. and once you've seen it, that's it. that's all you get for canon, it's over and done with.

but then you get things like long-running tv shows, manga, and mobage that can be constantly getting brand-new content for years on end, and it's much easier for people to remain interested and invested in them for a long time when there's always something new coming up to look forward to.