-Do your expectations for the fandom and its fanwork change depending on the source culture?
Yes! Anime and manga I'm used to seen lots of beautiful fanart, and fanfic, and fanvids (that are usually either funny and completely ridiculous or dramatic and beautiful, set to 90's US pop music. XD). Western tv has led me to expect lots of fanfic, fanvids out the wazoo and the occasional comic or fanart.
Jpop and kpop, having canon that is anchored in actual entertainers with ongoing activities and not a closed fictional canon, tends to lend itself to vignette and one-shot fics. There are so few long fics compared to the fiction-based fandoms. Also there is no shortage of vids pulling out footage from idols doing silly things on variety shows. :D Also, because the idols are doing things like twitter and webpages, fic can have sections using those formats.
A random thing: every so often I've dipped a toe back into the Western media fandom side of things. It's definitely interesting to hear the different discourses compared to in East Asian media. Western media is so US-centered, in terms of cultural foundation, how things like race/class/gender/sexuality/etc. are discussions and what terms are used. In my East Asian fandoms, the cultural bases of both the source and all the many fans are different.
I remember in Western fandom there was a big thing over the creation of Archive of Our Own and legality of fanfic and whether to include (Western) bandom and there was a long of arguing and wankery. And that entire conversation didn't even touch the are of jpop fandom I was in, except through the few people like me who kept a toe in each sandbox. Probably because writing fanfic doesn't really...violate copyright on real people. There's a different mess instead involving subbing and sharing media with other fans, because videos, on the other hand...
Occasionally I encounter an interesting blanket acceptance of the quirks and issues of Japanese or Korean culture, and then there's some dust-up and then posters come out of the woodwork and things seesaw between calls for cultural relativism versus 'oh that's horrible! Here in the US etc etc' and I just facepalm all over the place.
Oh man, tl;dr. XDDD;;; I should add that being part of jpop fandoms have changed the way I use emoticons, in that I picked up a new vocabulary of them and have a sad tendency to tack them on the end of all my sentences, because it's like the way I speak Cantonese and there are mood markers that you can place on the end of a sentence to nuance it. Also because it's so hard to tell someone's tone of voice/intention from text sometimes. I didn't used to do this when I was just in anime/manga fandoms though!
Last thing! You can call me rhythmia, I'm from the US, fan in English, though I speak English and Cantonese natively and read English much better than I can read Chinese. Go right ahead about using my input and please ask me to expand. If there are more topics you're interested in, just ask, because I'm sure I have lots of thoughts, but I need questions to tease them out, hehe. I hope this helps! ^_^
Re: I'm terribly sorry, this is going to be long. >.> 3/3
Yes! Anime and manga I'm used to seen lots of beautiful fanart, and fanfic, and fanvids (that are usually either funny and completely ridiculous or dramatic and beautiful, set to 90's US pop music. XD).
Western tv has led me to expect lots of fanfic, fanvids out the wazoo and the occasional comic or fanart.
Jpop and kpop, having canon that is anchored in actual entertainers with ongoing activities and not a closed fictional canon, tends to lend itself to vignette and one-shot fics. There are so few long fics compared to the fiction-based fandoms. Also there is no shortage of vids pulling out footage from idols doing silly things on variety shows. :D Also, because the idols are doing things like twitter and webpages, fic can have sections using those formats.
A random thing: every so often I've dipped a toe back into the Western media fandom side of things. It's definitely interesting to hear the different discourses compared to in East Asian media. Western media is so US-centered, in terms of cultural foundation, how things like race/class/gender/sexuality/etc. are discussions and what terms are used. In my East Asian fandoms, the cultural bases of both the source and all the many fans are different.
I remember in Western fandom there was a big thing over the creation of Archive of Our Own and legality of fanfic and whether to include (Western) bandom and there was a long of arguing and wankery. And that entire conversation didn't even touch the are of jpop fandom I was in, except through the few people like me who kept a toe in each sandbox. Probably because writing fanfic doesn't really...violate copyright on real people. There's a different mess instead involving subbing and sharing media with other fans, because videos, on the other hand...
Occasionally I encounter an interesting blanket acceptance of the quirks and issues of Japanese or Korean culture, and then there's some dust-up and then posters come out of the woodwork and things seesaw between calls for cultural relativism versus 'oh that's horrible! Here in the US etc etc' and I just facepalm all over the place.
Oh man, tl;dr. XDDD;;; I should add that being part of jpop fandoms have changed the way I use emoticons, in that I picked up a new vocabulary of them and have a sad tendency to tack them on the end of all my sentences, because it's like the way I speak Cantonese and there are mood markers that you can place on the end of a sentence to nuance it. Also because it's so hard to tell someone's tone of voice/intention from text sometimes. I didn't used to do this when I was just in anime/manga fandoms though!
Last thing! You can call me rhythmia, I'm from the US, fan in English, though I speak English and Cantonese natively and read English much better than I can read Chinese. Go right ahead about using my input and please ask me to expand. If there are more topics you're interested in, just ask, because I'm sure I have lots of thoughts, but I need questions to tease them out, hehe. I hope this helps! ^_^