Curiosity
Curiosity
In 1995, on Television screens hit the Legendary Gundam Wing with an array of mobile suit mechas -
the technology of a new era - in front of an audience that was used to many previous designs. The
design that made people think was, Gundam Wing Zero Custom, angelic and made of gundanium
alloy who could use its wings to fly in outer space, but to the audience it seemed as it was a sort of
magic to not use boosters. How could there be wings that could do such an amazing thing with no
explanation of how they functioned. Thinking about a "Theory" could make it possible that levels of
that technology existed, histories of that technology existed, and more story could be expanded upon
in the realm of the Gundam Wing Community (After Colony Universe).
Desire for more of the Animanga Series
When people have watched a series more than once it can get tiring, so they
have a choice of what to do. This could be to engage with others about what
already exists, engage with others of theories, or to move on to another series
and come back to it later. When fans desire more of anything from the series,
a wish of new things, or a want for more material to base ideas off of for
their own imaginations they start to look at information in a different way.
Having a different way of seeing the fictional universe can help predict the
strength of a fandom community and its future success independently of its
status of being "Dead" or "Alive".
There are many people who love the series for what it is with many people raising their hand at a Gundam Wing panel for who likes the
series. But asking if people want more for a positive feeling? does not knowing bug them with irritation? do they feel curious enough to
look inward and search for a possible answer and theory-craft? Albert Einstein once said "I have no special talents I'm only passionately
curious", which today sounds like anyone who falls in love with any piece of fiction that they have a connection with. Those who keep on
remaining curious about a series and make a fandom a homebase or even just want to give a bit of thought into the series have work
ahead of them.
There are changes in the neurological level as brain activity of the of how bad people wanted more Gundam Wing through the
(dopaminergic circuit) the feeling of pleasure. When people were curious it ended up showing: How much they wanted the information?
How much did they seek the information? When people are curious about a series they really are into they might have a particular thing
they enjoyed about the "Experience" and not necessarily: specific art, specific emotions, specific things, or specific scenes. But, if you
crave anticipation of the animanga series continuation and you crave a cognitive reward that explains the unexplained, even at the fan
level it comes with rewards to higher learning ability from the midbrain and nucleus accumbens. This means people who were highly
curious, researched a series, and who would make things have proper patience and ease in recalling series details.
Remake Ideas in Building on a Series
When people start problem solving one question it stimulates the brain into
asking more questions after understanding the base-series of a mangaka.
The base series is the art-books, the manga, the anime, the interviews, and
any other gathered information to find out: thinking-patterns, design-
decisions, story-structure, and general information gathering about the
making of the series. This builds a initial thought of a series known as
"Iterative Method" and deals with the "Iterative Process" of seeing something
as it is with the practice of building, refining, and improving upon it.
These projects are seen as "Remakes". When people start to theory-craft with passion, curiosity, and interest it can bring original and
exciting ideas to be discussing in trying to creatively problem solve with a focus on improvement.
Ideas that build on the base-series uses a process called "idea linking" where fans build on their initial thoughts where they wrote out what
they thought or made a influencer-style video of their thoughts to know where they stand on a series. They would start thinking about a
way that explains how the author could have came to the ideas scene by scene of how things happened and why they happened in the
story-boarding room. They might then go to think about the possibility of how those same ideas could be found in the rest of the series
and if they were used in theoretical scenarios or fan stories to modify and expand on their own ideas. While it still feels like a new fan
idea it is not, since it is using the many creators involved in all the works together as a idea source to link their deconstructed work with
the community members involvement to make content that is seemingly new.
Less engaged people who might see the series without such elaboration on the existing story might have a very different view of
interesting series with cool fight scenes that were entertaining and nothing special. So the lack of engagement can also make people feel
less interested in a series and less curious about it as well as less ambitious in engaging in anything else in that particular fandom
community regarding a particular series. You can also see psychologically that those who are engaged and curious are more likely to
hearing others ideas and opinions that are different than their own, so yes, those who are gatekeepers are likely not as engaged as those
who are creating content, analyzing the series, or have a friends in the community itself. Those who are engaged see it as a essential part
of the process for productive disagreements of critique and avoid gatekeeping confirmation bias and collective permission. Those who
are engaged have better experiences compared to those who are less engaged.
Staying in Canon Destroys Communities Creativity
Many fandoms could have greater impacts on the studios they are trying to
grab the attention of, or just make a place filled with more fun, if they would
encourage independent thought a little. A person who stays in a community
is interested from selecting to staying in a series group that they are in
voluntarily and that is the beginning. But the notion of turning down scary
new ideas, perspectives, and interpretations are feared by gatekeepers who
have a power-trip on fans staying in their lane or being socially overpowered
by base-series material.
That means that is important to watch out for these gatekeepers who can turn natural interest into a gatekeepers choice
imposed canonicity on them by someone else destroying curiosity of natural content creation for that particular series they encountered
such a person.
The increased interest in the "New Ideas" within a new groups creative domain could become interesting enough to people to start
spilling into a micro-fandom community of content makers into the general fandom community. When this sort of spill happens into the
general fandom community area it energizes people's thinking and allows them to spot new connections and lines of asking for
information, curiosity endeavors, and internal motivation. Those who help to grow their communities through ideas, art, and discussions
are likely to raise peoples curiosity and as more people make things you are exposing yourself to constant occurrences of curious people
that shows that curiosity could be trained in the creative problem solving space.
The series itself makes it media relevant, but each person in the community must know why or be asked why is it personally relevant, so
that they have a focus of why they were interested in the first place. Those who miss this sort of self reflection may never really be
involved, engaged, or further themselves or the community through such inactions and may simply lurk. Those who do though will have
the change to see how new knowledge can be useful to their personal relevance of the series. Common practices for a series is to
compile a list of questions that you and others would like to answer and write out how those questions are relevant to people working
together. What this does is by identifying the current holes in the story, your own knowledge of the series, or desire for things to be
answered by going deep.
Asking questions naturally sparks more curiosity and its followed by much needed engagement that refers to a fandom communities
stauts of being alive, especially if it is in relevant material. Questions do not need to be groundbreaking or earth shattering as many otaku
understand "If one person doesn't know, others might be too afraid to ask and not know as well". A desire to know more and make more
is in essence the true life that comes from fandom communities.