excuse me, mister youtube.

Currently Listening To: My mom agreeing with Dana about me being indignant..

"ALL teens are only into vampires NOW after Twilight came out."
- some douche on youtube.

Excuse me, Mister Youtube?
While this may be true for the majority of vampire lovers, don't place ALL teens into this category because YOU may have said that you have liked them since forever, but its not like all teenagers all over the world decided to wake up one morning, or should I say night, and fall in love with these creatures.

Are you forgetting 'The Vampyre' by Polidori, published in 1819? How about 'Carmilla' by Sheridan le Fanu, published in 1872 which was influenced by the life of Erzebet Bathory, the Hungarian countess who was so vain she bathed in the blood of young women to retain own young visage? Dare I forget to mention 'Dracula' by Bram Stoker, written twenty five years after 'Carmilla', and based on the well known figure Vlad Tepes? ANNE RICE? Of course, there is my favourite, 'Vampire Hunter D' by Hideyuki Kikuchi written many years later. What about all the comics and manga and anime written about these awesome beings? Twilight may have brought vampire literature back into the limelight, but it certainly did not start my obsession with them and I'm sure that many other can agree with me.

I doubt the teens you refer to would be bothered with the better old fashioned stories that were created from the 18th century and onwards. You say ALL teens only liked them after the Twilight saga. I tell you, not even ALL teens have READ the Twilight saga, and even though I have, I didn't even finish the last book because, truth be told, it was quite shiet.

I bet you that I have been more obsessed with vampire literature in the last seven years of my life than you ever have. I have spent many hours reading about the life of Erzebet Bathory and Vlad the Impaler than anyone I know. If I was to ever find someone with as much to say about them as me, I'd probably have a better intellectual conversation than you would about about vampires. And trust me, the only mention Twilight would get would be to say that it was good until the third book, then the media gave her too much attention, forcing her creativity to flee into a world where her book was no longer pivotal to the adaptations of my ideals of the vampire.

Sure, there are other books, comics and movies created much later than Dracula or even after Vampire Hunter D, which was started in 1983, that depict the lives of vampires, but many of them, such as 'The Vampire Diaries' by L. J. Smith, '30 Days of Night' (comic, then movie) by Steve Niles and the well known Blade movie series (which were originally comics under Marvel, created in 1973), were only made famous AFTER Twilight came out as they only received the attention they deserved due to Twilight creating awareness about the other awesome vampire literature that was available.

So don't alienate many teenagers and young adolescents with your throw away comments. In fact, don't alienate anyone with throw away comments and don't group those who will know way more about vampires than you ever could with those who were just looking for a good read in the Twilight novels.

- dyanne. ♠
'Sorry, I don't speak Abercrombie and Fitch.'