In addition, I find terms like the “ORIGINAL ARCHIE’S COALITION” to be so exclusionary that I’m surprised that people who are always supposedly wanting to act “like David” (and reminding others to do so) would use them. It reminds me of the poster a few weeks back who posted and included the name of her/his blog and then said, “but we don’t want any new members because we’re such a tight little group”, thus stating that new members would be unwelcome. I thought that was the most offensive thing I’d heard from one of David’s fans.

Is that how David’s fan base is developing; as an exclusionary set of “cliques” who don’t welcome new fans? I’ve seen the same said on FOD and on other blogs. I don’t care how jokingly it may be said here or there, I think it’s a bad message to send to people who didn’t know of or take notice of David until now and are now searching the internet for a place to discuss David and to “belong”. Might they subconsciously feel rejected by him and so reject him? What about the lonely, vulnerable high school kid who needs a place to belong in spite of not being an “original” fan?

How much of this exclusionary talk is based in real desire to exclude? Will everyone now registered receive her/his own number based on order of registration (or will there be additional qualifications?) until some arbitrary limit is reached? What then for that lonely teenager who just discovered David on YouTube?

Now it’s not as hard to find!