I’m gonna call it like I see it. That post, from 2012 – the phrasing and runaround of incest-not-incest-gen-not-gen-intense-relationship, and even the punctuation style, it’s all identical to the current account trying to pimp out this idea. They’re using the very same replies like a copy paste marketing agent. They struggled to sell the idea back then and they’re trying to re-sell it now, and it’s going to get approval from the same people it got in 2012. Remember when I did a backlog search and said most of its usage cropped up in 2012? It was around that thread. Prior to that, there were a grand total of two fics, one in 2005 and one in 2006, tagged that.
That post epicentered around trying to convince people “Gencest” was a name for existing Sam & Dean fiction while trying to parallel it to Destiel fanfics, if I remember the wanky pages I viewed correctly. It was an inflationist cheesy competitional rhetoric that other people were going “Dafuq?” back in 2012 and they’re doing it now because it never took off beyond about a dozen fics after that.
This whole “It’s an old fandom guard! You must live under a rock! Everybody knows!” elitist attitude is particularly hilariously bad because this is literally a repeating cycle. Nobody knew then and barely anybody knew about it now. The strangest form of gatekeeping I ever-did-see: “If you don’t know about this tag, which has been used on less than 30 fanfics from the dawn of time and is even casually mentioned only 420 times on the entire internet, you’re not a tru old guard fan, everybody knows.” – That’s more of a really-bad-attempt at insult to injurious action against people blockading out the topic effectively with blacklists, which is the true issue at hand here, while otherwise kidnapping away S&D fics that might BE harmless into the wanky pile from people who would otherwise read it if it isn’t incesty.
No fam, your moderately-among-your-own-closest-friends-kind-of-locally-successful-tag-from-2012 is not definitive of “old fandom” or “things everybody knows.” And if your reach ends there, that kind of says a lot.
Bruh
“Everybody knows! The power of the old fandom compels you!”
Bruh
And half of that is you telling everybody they should know what it is.
1. interesting theory that seems to make sense given that they were also terrible back then at defending it as just genfic
sound familiar?
“And half of that is you telling everybody they should know what it is.”
RIGHT? like damn. i did a google search and legit most of the results were people asking wtf it meant
ITS NOT A WELLKNOWN TERM
like damn even teens know what “slash” means, and it’s not widely used as much anymore. it has nothing to do with being old and everything with weirdly forcing everyone to accept a term you made up.
OWN
IT
And that’s not even tackling what’s behind your first cut. Seriously, chriss. Take your first cut. Take the answers. Side by side both the confusion from people then, and the answers being given by the person endorsing it then and you have a verbatim, pretty much copy-paste set of conflicting answers just like back then, in 2012, when nobody knew what it was either, before generating half of the google responses asking “dafuq?” and answering back. You know, that swimming number I posted up there.
It’s someone that’s trying to hack and slash (pun) their way into having some ancient ass tag. Bro, lmao, no. I could probably find some complete crack tag from 05-06 that was on 1-2 fics, but I promise you if I had revived it 7, or now 13 years later acting like it was some ancient fandom lore because I tried to boot the idea and failed five years ago, everybody would be calling that shit out too.
Atop the truly, dangerously problematic issue in this (exposure to triggers with poorly defined and conflicting descriptors and/or theft-away of potential clean material that people will avoid because of the poorly defined and conflicting descriptors that are trying to avoid the trigger content), the ridiculous and outright looney part of this is pretending that because someone got a dozen close friends using it 5 years ago it’s some Founding Fathers Tradition Everybody Knows And Clearly You’re Just A Noob If You Don’t.
Your friend group does not define the fandom. I can not cite this enough.
And GBang would try to clap back “yours neither!” but no, actual yielded content, history, and digital receipts speak it pretty well.
*rubs temples* i just…. there’s just not enough of it to justify calling it an old fandom term. like in, what, two years? the small pair of sam/rowena is more than what gencest is. and it’s been around for waaaay less than gencest.
91! 9. 1. ninety-one fics on ao3. that’s not counting what’s floating on here.
“your friend group does not define the fandom”
perfect example: we both know people who tried to make jmj, a newer version of j2m, a thing. and did it ever take off? no. i literally knew i had to explain that acronym because it didn’t. a handful of people at most know what it is. and if they tried five years down the road to insist that it’s an old well-known fandom term, people are going to have the same “tf is that” reaction you’re seeing with confused people re gencest
(except not really the same because people are objecting to more than just the name now; now it’s the behavior and who it’s being marketed towards)
Yes, this. Exactly. The JMJ thing. We know who made it. We know a lot of personal friends that used it for a little while. But we’re not huffing enough crack to claim you’re a newbie or somehow not-ITK for not knowing it, but funny enough-
As niche and cracky as JMJ’s usage is, and as much humility as you displayed in calling that point out, its usage is about 125x higher than “Gencest”. Let that sink in.
Now, I will argue that even with the “Supernatural” word quoted, there may be some arbitrary image string letters coming in and the ilk, and realistically scrolling through the results we can see they aren’t all SPN so-
I gave it a whole other qualifier, an extra threshold of search clarification above what was given to theirs and
Oh. Wild.
Wait.
So there’s 3 more results for “SPN”+”J2M”+”JMJ” than there even are “gencest.”
JMJ, of course, being a term started about a year ago, casually, among one limited friend group and their immediate contacts.
Old guard must have some really lax usage. And if you’re worried, you can reclarify the results. I just put this in the google field: "JMJ"+“Supernatural”+“J2M”
This of course requires all three clearly and got 340 results. It’s fucking wild. Almost like gencest is a non-idea someone keeps remarketing and trying to convince people is ancient history when it isn’t.
Never was. Never will be. That, or you can go tell Sissa her tag is secretly super fandom famous and everybody knows it, and she just didn’t know it.
oh my god i— the term has been around for a year and it’s on par with what they’re claiming is an old fandom term
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