User blog comment:PlantyThePottedPlant/Random Topic Blogging III: Blog Harder/@comment-1647442-20141104225824

Recently I've been looking back on the P&F fandom and how it's grown and changed since 2008.

MAN there were some interesting things going on a few years ago.

Who here remembers the False Swampy Crisis? Or Martin Olson and Jon Colton Barry uploading demos to soundcloud ("Lindana Demo #2", "Remember when we killed that girl scout?", "Phineas, F*** YOU, Ferb, F*** YOU. I am going home. F*** YOU, BOTH OF YOU")? Or that all-out war the chat regulars had with me that ended with them migrating to the Disney Wiki chat and promptly abandoning that as well?

I feel like the show is still going as strongly as ever (how many hourlong specials have we had in the last year alone? 3?), but the fandom's slowed down so much. It's still popular, it just feels like everyone, especially us, are just... no longer involved.

I can't help but look to the future, and what it holds for the beloved show that brought us together. It's the longest-running disney tv series to date (most episodes and longest time length, though season number is tied), but can it sustain itself? What of the fandom? Even the canon wiki has had less and less discussion. Blogs are only posted about once every two weeks, forums have been all but abandoned, and I can't remember the last time I logged on and saw the chat with more than one person in it. The IRC channels are beacons of inactivity. I log in from time to time and see the same few people still online - the people who leave the channels open 24/7. I've seen little to no trace of some of my best friends I've made in this fandom anywhere online, like Flash and MooMoo.

I'm not sure what exactly inspired me to write this pseudo-essay. Perhaps it was me wasting time so I don't have to write a real essay that needs to be done yesterday. Perhaps it was a nostalgic rush. Perhaps it was me listening to the demos on MooMooOfDoom's youtube channel. Whatever it was, I'm certainly glad I was able to write down these thoughts somewhere.