I don't think it exists in any "official" way, but there certainly are some who think themselves better than others and who scoff at others' efforts.
I noticed this during one of the panels with the guests at EF14, for example. There was a discussion about writing, and someone - from the audience, I think, not one of the guests - remarked that while YiffStar had a hundred thousand stories, 99999 of them were crap, and the remaining one was stolen. There was some more talk along those lines, too - about how there were many people on FA as well who thought they were writers but - in the opinion of whoever said that - weren't actually.
If that's not elitism, I don't know what is.
But it's something that generally seems to be limited to a minority of folks.
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I noticed this during one of the panels with the guests at EF14, for example. There was a discussion about writing, and someone - from the audience, I think, not one of the guests - remarked that while YiffStar had a hundred thousand stories, 99999 of them were crap, and the remaining one was stolen. There was some more talk along those lines, too - about how there were many people on FA as well who thought they were writers but - in the opinion of whoever said that - weren't actually.
If that's not elitism, I don't know what is.
But it's something that generally seems to be limited to a minority of folks.