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Jan. 6th, 2009 09:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oselleMan, I have to tell you that if LJ really does go belly-up my life will be impoverished in ways that I can't bear to think about. If I can't come here to get away from my actual life...where will I go?
To be perfectly honest, I'm amazed it hasn't happened already. This place never made it big a la Facebook or MySpace and I'm willing to bet it barely turns a profit. Do you think they're making much money off these $19.95-a-year paid accounts when you don't even NEED a paid account to post here? And what with all the porn and wank and porny wank and general hardcore geekery that goes on here, I'd wager LJ has always been more trouble than it's ever been worth to its various owners.
If this happens, it will be such a blow to fandom -- I mean to all fandoms. To the very idea of fandom. I don't know of any other single place where fandom in all its expressions flourishes the way it does here.
*feels a cold wind blowing*
To be perfectly honest, I'm amazed it hasn't happened already. This place never made it big a la Facebook or MySpace and I'm willing to bet it barely turns a profit. Do you think they're making much money off these $19.95-a-year paid accounts when you don't even NEED a paid account to post here? And what with all the porn and wank and porny wank and general hardcore geekery that goes on here, I'd wager LJ has always been more trouble than it's ever been worth to its various owners.
If this happens, it will be such a blow to fandom -- I mean to all fandoms. To the very idea of fandom. I don't know of any other single place where fandom in all its expressions flourishes the way it does here.
*feels a cold wind blowing*