I've only been on the fringes of fandom for the last few years, so I haven't really kept up with what's going on with OTW, but the one thing I found myself thinking as everything imploded recently was that you could not pay me enough to be on the Board, let alone get me to do it for free. I didn't really have concise words for that gut feeling, but you've summed it up quite nicely with "fandom's idealisation-devaluation cycle." Either the praise is overflowing or the criticism is devastating, but there doesn't seem to be any middle ground, and public sentiment can turn on a dime, which (to me, at least) is a terrifying prospect.
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I've only been on the fringes of fandom for the last few years, so I haven't really kept up with what's going on with OTW, but the one thing I found myself thinking as everything imploded recently was that you could not pay me enough to be on the Board, let alone get me to do it for free. I didn't really have concise words for that gut feeling, but you've summed it up quite nicely with "fandom's idealisation-devaluation cycle." Either the praise is overflowing or the criticism is devastating, but there doesn't seem to be any middle ground, and public sentiment can turn on a dime, which (to me, at least) is a terrifying prospect.