I hate Spice Girls fans

The Spice Girls fans were great. They were always the first to use new Internet technologies, they treated eachother well, and they were collectively afraid of nothing. They outfitted their computers with video digitisers in order to capture and share TV appearances by the Spice Girls, they listened to the radio for hours on end just to record an interview; they spent literally hundreds of hours scanning in press photos. All for their fellow fans.

They were like that. But it's been years and years since those days. When the Spice Girls decided to temporarily go their separate ways, the organisation of the fans broke down. Fans left and new people, who had previously been on the fringe of the community ("dyke spicers", as well as people with concealed motives) became more powerful; they basically overran the rest of the community.

That's when they started to push me out of the online fan community. I was part of the more traditional group of fans, and I told it how I saw it. Call me Mister Paranoid, but I think the new bastards stored information on people who they didn't like.

There is still a kernel of fans who keep the old spirit alive - tonight I was thinking about "Stop to the top" which is one of the most ingenious plans I've ever heard, cooked up and executed by Spice Girls fans. It used new-ish internet technology in a way that nobody had ever thought of before. It failed because of lack of communication, and the lack of communication was caused by the original breakdown of the fan network anyway. But the spirit was there.

So, I hate the Spice Girls, and I hate the Spice Girls fans as they currently stand. Even though they've been in this dreadful state for many years, I hope by golly that they find their way and once again become the greatest fan community of all time.