Look At Him SERVE!!!!

I have a who fanpage on Instagram and I like to imagine all the old people who are following me not getting any of the jokes I posted LOL

Millennials of Tumblr dot com, what was your weird niche fandom that you were part of a community dedicated to in the mid/late 2000s? Not Harry Potter or LOTR or Ouran or something, it has to be niche. Something where when you talk about it, you have to spend at least 3 minutes just explaining why this Was Even A Thing. Where someone who doesn't know just how intensely balkanized 2000s messageboard culture was, would be shocked at how this thing had whole websites dedicated to it.

Mine was "teenage girls who were obsessed with The Who." I specify the age/gender because we specifically had our own forums (if anyone by chance on here was a regular on Cobwebs & Strange circa 2005-6, hi! I forgot what username I had there, but on Xanga I was harddaysafternoon / postcardsofthehanging) that were separate from wherever middle-aged dads were talking about The Who in the mid-2000s. We'd occasionally have such a guy show up on one of ours because he found it on Google, and make an introduction, maybe one more very confused post, and then leave.

This wasn't an RPF or shipping centric fandom, either. I cannot explain it; the classic rock bandom circles I was into around 2005 were not into that. But they were a thing. There was a girl who quit Xanga/LiveJournal because she decided that to be a true fan she needed to live like she was in the 1960s and therefore couldn't use any technology that did not exist in 1965.

Anyway, tell me about your super-niche 2000s fandom and its drama

My favorite song from one of my favorite bands! I really love Marian because Andrew Eldritch's voice is so haunting! I would really love to learn the bassline. First and Last and Always is my favorite album of all time. ^_^

I did a Who project for my coding class, I presented the video in front of everyone, and my teacher really loved it, and so did my class. I got an A. Keith wasn't added because I ran out of time, so let's just say he just got into mischief and transformed into Boris the Spider (somehow).

I got inspiration from the video below. Please check it out, too.

So was anyone going to tell me that David Dastmalchian has vitiligo and got called "polka dots" as a kid or was I just supposed to randomly find that out through twitter?

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John Entwistle, bassist for the Who, on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1967.

Appreciate it MH 🙏🫶

the who mutuals (whotuals) does anyone have a link (preferable google drive) where i can watch tommy for free thank you

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