dannnex

This might be too niche and I might just be being overly aggressive, but some of the cosmere-themed social media accounts out there annoy me so much.

Like I don't want to gatekeep anything, people should be free to engage with these books however they want, and I'm aware I'm being overly critical about something that doesn't matter at all but...

There's like 2 accounts in particular that really just tick me off, one on instagram and one on twitter. Both have 20k+ followers. They're not related afaik but they're similar in tone. Both "Cosmere News and Memes!"-type accounts. The type of account that portrays themselves as a community authority figure just because they know how to repost Tor articles. 

Like you didn't create your account until 2023, calm down. You are not an authority on anything. I think that's genuinely a fair thing to "gatekeep", like anyone and everyone is welcome to be apart of the Sanderson community, but elevating yourself to the "Best source of Brandon Sanderson News!" is just so annoying. The amount of attitude these accounts have, you'd think they wrote the books themselves!

It's not just people posting for the love of the game either, these are the type of people with amazon affiliate links to sanderson merch in their bio. Actively trying to profit off of the community by reposting things other people make. The twitter account in particular peeved me last year when it made a separate tweet for every single line in the State of the Sanderson address that could be considered "news". Never mentioned the newsletter itself btw, just deconstructed it and copied every line. 

And I have to mention the "memes" these accounts post. They just aren't funny. This is probably my most invalid and/or gatekeepy critique, but they're just not funny I don't know what to say. Making jokes on the internet is a skill, you don't have it just because you know how to use imgflip and mematic. 

It's all just slop, reposts from official Dragonsteel sources, and more slop. I have no clue how these accounts are as big as they are. I think we, as a community, can do better.