/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Normalfags will never, ever understand the Touhou fandom. Here's why.

1.- The games are HARD. That's a well-known fact, yes, but this means you have to be obsessive at least to some degree in order to even have a shot at a 1CC on Easy.
2.- This means in turn that Touhou game fans are rabid beyond comprehension. And as a result, they will use any expressive medium they master in order to profess their ever-lasting love for Touhou.
3.- This small but incredibly insane fandom has spawned such a staggering amount of fan-made works it has actually spawned its own followers, the so-called fandom fans. And like it or not, eventually the game fandom's brash, rabid attitude rubs off into the fandom fandom.

All of that literally translates into a self-sustaining fandom, a fandom that has actually grown to be sentient. And because normal thing is that a fandom depends on the creators' efforts, I'm pretty sure that a normalfag just couldn't be able to wrap its head over such a concept.

Also, the social part. Being a Touhou fan makes you automatically part of an exclusive club of fans who will bond instantly like they were slathered on glue. I'm currently living this right now, usually I have a kinda hard time meeting new people but on the single week I've been hanging out with Touhou fans I've met 3 cute girls and 3 great dudes. However, there's a catch: only Touhou fans are accepted. Those who are not into Touhou can't into that club unless they have an honorary position by virtue of being great friend of a fellow touhoufag.

Seriously, every time I hear someone declaring himself a huge fan of something, I can't help but think "dude, your fandom is made of casuals, just wait until you see the Touhou fandom...".