Important question. like _super_ important ya dig?

Pony_wearing_a_hat 2021-07-03 20:16:23 UTC #25

My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. I knew NO ONE who liked the show, so I had to turn to the internet to find my kindred spirits. Similarly to @Berserker, my username here also comes from my fandom.

Scarlet_Cryptid 2021-07-03 20:43:53 UTC #26

Uhhhh.... thinks back

Probably X-Men, back when I was 16-ish, and had consistent access to 'the computer' at home. (It was 1999.)

AmysGames 2021-07-04 02:19:44 UTC #27

I think most of my early internet experiences were with the Powerpuff Girls (there's a PPG fanfic I remember reading way back in the early 2000s), but I think my first proper interactions with any sort of fandom was Pokémon. There's a Pokémon forum I used to troll around on, though thinking back on it makes me cringe, haha.

NickRowler 2021-07-04 04:08:32 UTC #28

I was super into DBZ when I first started using the internet more but I was a bit too young to get involved with fandom stuff.

I think maybe the first one was Naruto. I used to use this defunkt site (it was sort of like DeviantArt but worse) I would look at other people's work and add my own. I was also fandom trash, because I was like 15.

thebunnyexpress 2021-07-04 04:21:08 UTC #29

Probably Doctor who lol, although I was never really active in any sort of fandom?

Caro 2021-07-04 04:47:04 UTC #30

Probably Naruto. Also ATLA was on at the same time that I started getting really into the internet when I was 12/13 so I remember being involved in a couple ATLA forums as well as Naruto forums. I haven’t really been involved in any fandoms since I was in my teens though.

JeanGuillet 2021-07-04 04:50:17 UTC #31

This pair of bad news dudes

This is my fandom. This was the internet. This was the entire genius of a hundred years distilled into one hilarious package. I remain faithfully, a fan.

with, you know, razor edges dipped in poison but that's an in joke.

xstarx07 2021-07-04 10:42:53 UTC #32

Pokémon has always been kind of a big thing, even before the internet, for me ^^ Sonic has also been really cool to me, but I was never really in a fandom for both of these franchises.

The first fandom I was active in, which was about 9 years ago, was Warrior Cats, I even wrote the weird first concept of my project in the fanfiction thread over there, but aside from that, I met some really cool people on that forum and had a genuinely good time. The sad part is that I‘m not really in contact with any people over there anymore, I just left one day because of school and my (then) newfound drawing hobby started to occupy my free time more and more

inubasket 2021-07-04 11:41:00 UTC #33

Inuyasha was the first internet fandom I was in-- I used to participate in Inuyasha roleplays in Yahoo chatrooms back in 2003-ish (I was 11). Nowadays I'm in a Facebook fan group called "Inuyasha SITposting" lmao, still participating in the Kagome vs Kikyo debates

Iris-Grimoire 2021-07-04 16:38:52 UTC #34

Neopets and Kirby. In fact, uh, too much Kirby, but it at least was a safe fandom to act absolutely stupid in. There was a bit of Pokémon too, but I always felt intimidated by the big forums, so I'd just join niche places and draw art whenever I felt like it.

Ninjaniksel 2021-07-05 13:49:21 UTC #35

I think it was Tokio Hotel back in 2007 or something haha. I started out writing self-inserts as that was very popular back then. After that, I mostly wrote original works and did some RP'ing with OC's with the same people that I used to write fanfics with, which was really cool and taught me a lot.

My very first fanfic gained a lot of traction and one of the people I met through it is gonna be at my wedding next week, I really made some great friends throughout it all.

yumeryuu 2021-07-05 13:59:37 UTC #36

I ran a Sailor Moon website in 1998.

Oh yeah, its still live...

www.angelfire.com/ma/Darkmoon

My first fanfictions are on that site.

yumeryuu 2021-07-05 14:05:14 UTC #37

YES! My Sailor Moon website is still live from 1998.

BlairFujin 2021-07-05 14:13:03 UTC #38

Probably Naruto... I remember making amvs, crying on a forum about how bad our dub was, drawing fanarts and running a fanfick with my cousin in which Polish minister of education back at the time took over konoha and Naruto was tasked with overthrowing him (we were weird... xDD)

artamazon 2021-07-06 17:47:29 UTC #39

hahah omg that's amazing, and I'm jealous. I should have had an Angelfire account, lol.

DanielRKM 2021-07-06 17:59:19 UTC #40

Yeah! It was Sonic The Hedgehog for me too.

There was a whole Knothole Village-themed AOL chatroom that I used to frequent back in the day (my fandom lapsed for a bit as I grew up, but my first comic definitely honors those roots). I've had a lot of fun going back and playing with those dynamics that were spun out of that world.

DanielRKM 2021-07-06 18:02:30 UTC #41

Oh man. X-Men had such a huge influence on me back in the '90s. Chris Claremont's storytelling mixed with Jim Lee's art was just breathtaking. I remember being a kid and ONLY having the issue where Omega Red wiped the floor with the X-Men and it scarred me for life (but in a wonderful way). Also, how they handled Morph in the cartoon (and set up stakes for a kid's cartoon) was simply excellent.

X-Men has a large place in my soul.

DanielRKM 2021-07-06 18:03:41 UTC #42

@Pony_wearing_a_hat Yes! What a good show. I'm so pumped that show exists for my kids (and for me too).

Scarlet_Cryptid 2021-07-06 18:04:40 UTC #43

I'm not gonna lie, I had the biggest freaking crush on Nightcrawler for a while.
(I also tried cosplaying as Mystique once. Once. Don't color yourselves blue with a marker, kids...)

rachurch95 2021-07-06 18:11:16 UTC #44

ok but

really
Who didn't?
it was either him, wolverine, or storm ngel