"There's been this massive diversification of female fandom, queer fandom, and non-white fandom," says Brinkema.
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The internet — and fandom-at-large — helped form my fandom.
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For instance, we've had people talking about baseball fandom, music fandom, and, of course, a lot of people from fan-fic fandom.
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What's inarguable is that curative fandom tends to treat transformative fandom with a kind of bafflement verging on downright hostility — the same reaction, more or less, that most non-fandom groups have toward fandom in general.
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But I'm not the same fandom-for-fandom person I once was.
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The Fifth Harmony fandom, or any fandom really, is made up of subgroups.
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In relationships, I've sometimes asked myself, How much fandom is too much fandom?
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And there was a lot of crossover between the early fandom [and WoT fandom].
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Hide in the big fandom rather than be the leader of the little fandom.
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Fraade-Blanar: Fandom is ancient — as long as there's been culture there's been fandom.
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Men who are involved in fandom are more likely to participate in curative fandom.
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Academics have long associated curatorial and transformative fandoms with a general fandom gender divide, finding that curatorial fandom appeals more to men and transformative fandom appeals more to women.
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Multi-fandom Someone who is multi-fandom or "multi" is a fan of many groups.
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Dark side of 'Star Wars' fandom The prequels would demonstrate the resilient intensity of "Star Wars" fandom.
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That is, they recognize that their way of participating in fandom is diametrically opposed to curatorial fandom.
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Hence, the "bad" kind of fandom inevitably becomes the transformative, fan-works-based side of fandom — the side of fandom that is traditionally the realm of women, queer fans, and other marginalized fans.
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Finally, Patrick gazes into the abyss of Cleveland Browns fandom and sees his own Chicago Bears fandom gazing back.
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In essence, whenever you have a fandom this big, the culture of that fandom will be divergent and multifaceted.
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Well, if modern fandom is a multi-faceted whole made up of curatorial fans and transformative fans that balance one another, and Bran represents modern fandom, you'd expect him to embody both curatorial and transformative fandom.
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When we look at the way fandom is presented in the mainstream, it's curatorial fandom that has traditionally been best represented, whether through big events like Comic-Con or through explorations of fandom phenomena like "Brony" culture.
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"And the catalyst that I remember was one of the particular pecadillos of fandom in Potter fandom... twincest," Dash tells me.
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Fandom does not automatically create bias, but also, it is important to note that fandom is also not rational, like, at all.
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In the fandom for BBC's Sherlock, a theory emerged within fandom that rapidly became known officially as "the Johnlock conspiracy," or TJLC.
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One of the reasons I love Star Wars fandom — and really, any fandom — is that we chose to make this our myth.
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Throughout the 2100s, fandom found its way into politics, and politics found their way into fandom, from call-out culture to Gamergate.
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Fandom is also not homogeneous, and we've left out many terms that are in common use among various subfandoms and subcultures within fandom.
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So for once, instead of talking about what fandom isn't, I'm going to talk about what fandom is: Fandom is the collective experience of fans, mainly women and genderqueer individuals, who build things together, support each other, and learn from each other.
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I really wanted to write a book about fandom that was about how much I love fandom and how important it's been to me.
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Today, Tumblr offers fandom an umbrella organization for its disparate requirements and has become a haven for both straightforward fandom and unconventional kink communities.
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But most curatorial fans don't even know there is another way of being in fandom; their notion of fandom is the only kind that exists.
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But the part of fandom that plays well with copyright isn't the part of fandom that cultivates new attitudes about the stories being played with.
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Transformative fandom in particular — the kind of fandom filled mostly with women — is weirder and more confusing, almost definitely immoral, also gross, and maybe dangerous.
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In general, the Harry Potter fandom was among the first to see a number of people actively leveraging their success through fandom toward their professional careers.
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The online Harry Potter fandom — the transformative, critical, markedly progressive branch of the fandom — has spent years adapting Harry's reality to be more like our own.
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Before Fifty Shades, few people outside of fanfic culture took fandom seriously; after, interest was so high that just a few months after the book's release, I landed a job reporting exclusively on fandom culture — and I never had to justify my interest in fandom again.
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So, when we take fandom as a whole, select out the MOST AWFUL JERKBIRDS and flap them about and say, "Look how bad fandom is," yeah, no.
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One faction of SF fandom therefore claimed the awards are agenda-driven and rigged, and that they don't represent the traditional action-focused books fandom really likes.
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Women, 'excluded from the male-only club science fiction fandom had largely become,' found in television fandom a way to 'develop their skills and hone their talents.
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"There are terms in fandom which, while commonly understood in context among fans, would not be when you take it out of the fandom context," Qem says.
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As a comic-book fan who understands the nature of fandom, how do you reconcile negative reactions to your work with what your understanding of fandom is?
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And now, more so than ever, fans have been encouraged to not just tell people they like a certain fandom, but to wear that fandom in public.
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Many fans will often distinguish between several hugely different fan cultures: sports fandom, which is its own cultural juggernaut; traditional sci-fi and fantasy fandom, a descendent of its early-20th-century beginnings; pop music and celebrity fandom, which tends to congregate heavily on mainstream social media spaces (think Beliebers, the Beyhive, Swifties, Directioners, and other countless fan bases that focus on specific performers); and online, female-dominated, fanworks-based fandom.
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Perhaps the most notable example of this kind of deep fandom conspiracy is the great Larry Stylinson conspiracy in the One Direction fandom, followed by TLJC in the Sherlock fandom and swaths of conspiratorial RPF shippers in numerous other fandoms, from Supernatural to Twilight to The X-Files.
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The Teen Choice Awards are known for typically celebrating films, TV shows, and performers that attract a massive fandom — specifically, a fandom that appeals to a younger audience.
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The word "fandom" is both a collective noun, describing many fandoms and subfandoms as one giant body of fans, and a singular one referring to a single fandom.
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If you want to know more about fandom and its terms, or specific fandoms, we recommend checking out Fanlore, the fandom wiki run by the Organization for Transformative Works.
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In alignment with the Marvel machine, fans became increasingly vocal about their fandom identities, partly thanks to emerging, vibrant, and visible fandom communities on social platforms like Tumblr and Twitter.
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The teenagers in the fandom are often able to get their offline friends into Furbys, which gives them a tangible way to express their fandom even if Tumblr crumbles around them.
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But it's that second part — our fandom — that's important.
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That's why as a culture we've decided that transformative fandom is weird and gross and morally wrong, and that's why all the articles in the world explaining that transformative fandom is a totally legitimate way to interact with a text aren't really making a dent in the never-ending stream of repulsed investigations of fandom.
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For creators who are winging their interactions with fans, knowing when a ship has become a collective fandom ideology, and why, might help give you a bit of autonomy from your fandom.
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Constance Grady: The biggest fandom moment for me would have to be the moment that led indirectly to me writing in this roundtable today: when Gossip Girl fandom went completely fucking wild.
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"Recently, a survey of the Snape fandom on Tumblr was conducted, and about 20 percent of the fandom was not cisgender, which is much, much higher than the world average," Fatuma told me.
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" Of the new details that have emerged over the years, she said, "they ripple throughout fandom, and for fandom it's highly rewarding, but as a reader it's not how I engage with books.
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If it's not Elon Musk, you're doing billionaire fandom wrong.
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The Mophie fandom grows bigger and bigger by the day.
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Ever since, Gendry has become a meme among the fandom.
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Even that ease of fandom transition may be a relic.
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"I know she has a huge fandom," he told E!
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But often, there is a winking irony in adult fandom.
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Yes, the Game of Thrones fandom truly has no bounds.
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Do these titles actually represent what's enormously popular in fandom?
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But I grew up in a household that encouraged fandom.
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Internet fandom isn't swayed by poor lighting and infrequent updates.
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Pinboard has a reputation for being a platform for fandom.
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It was an ecosystem constructed and nurtured by fandom itself.
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It's taking things in your own hands as a fandom.
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No one in fandom is entirely sure what to expect.
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Why is the franchise's fandom still as enthusiastic as ever?
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Instead, the exhibition examines the minutiae of fandom surrounding boxing.
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He comes to this business from fandom, not from ambition.
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Insecure was picked up this way, given its YouTube fandom.
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In fact, attendance may be mandatory to prove your fandom.
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Maybe because I'm a fandom person, I'm okay with it.
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My J.Lo fandom starts and ends with her movie roles.
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The fandom is strong with this one, and Taylor Taylurks.
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Each Chris fandom claims their Chris is a perfect ten.
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Fan filmmaking is a huge and hallowed corner of fandom.
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Finally, in 2009, Rowling joined Twitter, and the fandom erupted.
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Just as my own R.E.M. fandom began to wane, Murmurs.
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And you thought the Rick and Morty fandom were bad.
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The story of the Mellon Chronicles begins in another fandom.
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Social media has vaporized the line between fandom and friendship.
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Glazer: Fandom has historically been viewed as a consumptive activity.
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In some parts of the fandom, his popularity eclipsed Veronica's.
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Girls who get to be part of a global fandom.
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All of this is helped along by Corden's evident fandom.
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Fandom is vast and huge, and it's anything but monolithic.
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In the world of Fandom, a good nickname means everything.
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"Since joining the fandom, I've become more open," she said.
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I admit to some of that sort of fandom myself.
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Read the rest of our Fandom Week stories right here.
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But it isn't Fairuza Balk fandom that cast her lot.
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Remember those days at the height of Harry Potter fandom?
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He didn't court cult fandom and avoided the inside joke.
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I have participated in every conceivable kind of fandom since.
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Fandom takes you to other places than pride, of course.
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For starters, their fans inevitably grow out of their fandom.
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But in Outlander fandom, they've spawned an outright ideological war.
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Isn't that what fandom should be — all upside, no anguish?
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Snake emoji trolling is only truly coherent within a fandom.
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We wear our sports fandom very close to the chest.
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All the fandom discussions about house sorting originated with them.
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The fandom erupted, taking to Twitter to protest the injustice.
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Fandom and fanaticism made their historical appearance hand in hand.
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Gossip Girl fandom had become my favorite nighttime soap instead.
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Instant Pot's internet fandom also gives it a leg up.
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Our critic wrestles with their stories, and his own fandom.
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Fandom is about celebrating the story the way it is.
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Ward's statement privileges a specific kind of fandom over another.
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Check out more of our Fandom Week content right here.
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But by the time Tumblr appeared in 2007, with its vast fandom communities turning women-dominated fandom into a significant cultural force, the producers of Supernatural could no longer deny that its future was female.
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This current "release the X" trend unites two separate but linked fandom phenomena: fans seeking "insider" info about their canon, usually from a source pertaining to be an insider, and the classic fandom conspiracy theory.
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I feel today that fandom is much more accepted as normal.
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Only, maybe we misunderstood the nature of his fandom until now.
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Now if only she could explain her unshakeable fandom for Brady.
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Politics is a lot like sports fandom with emotions overtaking reason.
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Apparently, Ian McShane knows nothing of the Game of Thrones fandom.
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Grey's fandom group hug #GreysAnatomy Alex Karev, you have my heart.
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So far, their relationship has withstood the scrutiny of Bachelor fandom.
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Eric Barone mined Harvest Moon fandom with the exceptional Stardew Valley.
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I'm done with this fandom and I'm done with Taylor Swift.
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"It's just the fandom," she said about the New Girl tweet.
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These two artists are both successes of modern internet-driven fandom.
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Until that moment, I had no idea fandom like that existed.
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The Harry Potter fandom has had a lot to celebrate recently.
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Sometimes not boasting about your position in a fandom is okay.
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Since when are death threats acceptable as an expression of fandom?
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Just another (and another, and another) day in Taylor Swift fandom.
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"I think that was pretty divisive for the fandom," Decker said.
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Fandom is useful, in part, because it can bridge those chasms.
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But despite her massive fandom, Britney was easy to work with.
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Where would music and fandom be today without the Backstreet Boys?
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In fact, it's Bey's minimalism that makes the fandom grow stronger.
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Every fandom has one huge, hotly debated question at its core.
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It is a period of civil war in Star Wars fandom.
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The ending of that film sent shockwaves through Star Wars fandom.
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Rob Thomas thinks the passionate fandom developed because of Veronica herself.
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Artwork by Jane Kim Fandom is a form of obsessive madness.
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"Fine Bros Entertainment knows fandom better than anyone," Tucker told Mashable.
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The best Game of Thrones fandom gift you're likely to find
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Pop culture doesn't need fans—but it could use more fandom.
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The effects are radiating throughout the Kardashian fandom to this day.
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Jones and his proxies helped define my nascent pro wrestling fandom.
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Why did you want to share your fandom in the book?
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Force fandom out of this place and make us resettle elsewhere.
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Even amongst her supporters, Rousey fandom was often a complicated thing.
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For some people, it was the colorful characters and rabid fandom.
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That reciprocity, that dynamic, that interplay is how fandom is built.
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But Karev's untimely departure isn't sitting well with the Grey's fandom.
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There's more money, but there's also a lot more fandom now.
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In his nostalgic kickoff, Mr. Trump went with his old fandom.
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I respect fandom, both as a concept and as a grouping.
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Is it a big thing or are you the entire fandom?
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Within the furry fandom, there's a 21 percent overlap with bronies.
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"It will definitely reach out to the wider fandom," @Saint10K said.
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I was very into fandom at that moment [when writing Fangirl].
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It's weird whether it's fandom or it's just weirdness in general.
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Memewear has its roots in fandom, though it's a limited precedent.
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At its most pure, fandom is an expression of mass enthusiasm.
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In honor of the show's quarter century of fandom, Warner Bros.
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The fandom has touched all corners of the internet, including TikTok.
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In his Cardi B fandom, he remains a figure of hope.
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It was a mutual lovefest, as Cardi B professed her fandom.
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"I didn't even know how fervent the fandom was," Ayers says.
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It is fandom that is finally propelling Mr. Iconis to Broadway.
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The bile has receded to normal levels for video game fandom.
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Becoming part of a fandom is an experience unlike any other.
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When it comes to the NBA, fandom can take many forms.
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A 2015 article in Transformative Works and Cultures, a peer-reviewed academic journal that examines popular media and fandom, dug into the dark fandom of Columbine by analyzing the fan art, videos and memes about the shooters.
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"Shipping is a major part of K-pop fandom, and I think it's all fine until fans bring it up outside of fandom, harass their idols and tin-hat into delusion their idols' sexualities," Natalie tells me.
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In fact, my fandom hasn't even looked much like cheering... well, until this response to forced fumble in the final minutes of the game, anyway: In fact, my fandom this year has been the opposite of cheering.
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There is a bit of a debate in the fandom (when is there not a bit of a debate in this fandom) over what order to watch the Star Wars movies in — and I have the answer.
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After these two zines, there's no record of any slash being published in Star Wars fandom between 1982 and 1992 — the year two different multi-fandom zines, Dyad and Homosapien, each published separate Star Wars slash fics.
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While Lucasfilm was able to suppress transformative fandom by quelling certain kinds of fanfiction and privileging certain kinds of fan works — notably fan films over fanfiction — the internet allowed transformative fandom culture to spread and become mainstream.
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Do you ever go online and look at the Lunar Chronicles fandom?
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Yet we have urged them on with our fandom and our excitement.
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This particular facet of the Game of Thrones fandom requires extracurricular work.
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There are also some clever nods to the characters' roles in fandom.
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What level of Nanny fandom would you say you were at before?
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The official Fandom page for Aladdin lists Aladdin as 18 years old.
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On behalf of the Sivan fandom, we will not stand for this.
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Good for Supernatural fans, who literally wrote the book on modern fandom.
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It's the sound of cries from the fandom of the HGTV hit.
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You go to them to reify your existing fandom, and that's all.
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This is just a conversation about an unprecedented era in fandom culture.
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This kind of unbridled fandom doesn't usually touch down at awards ceremonies.
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Instead, it's a celebration of the fandom Life is Strange has inspired.
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It's a shame that certain chunks of this fandom missed the memo.
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Has Harry Potter fandom died down since the last book came out?
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Usually tinhatters comprise just a small portion of an otherwise diverse fandom.
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Spider-verse fandom is united in their collective "wtf lolno Disney" response.
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Fandom is intense, and important, but really—the music should be enough.
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The challenge is how to keep earning that fandom in new ways.
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Thanks to the internet, modern fandom is anything but isolated or alone.
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Ariana Grande's breakup anthem has been embraced by every fandom on Twitter.
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Why do these relationships revolve almost exclusively around gum and gum fandom?
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Nostalgia, memories, and in-jokes are a big part of a fandom.
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Celebs: they're just like us, even in their fandom of pop stars.
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Like Bednarczyk, the World Cup was a gateway to general soccer fandom.
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Will the Little Mix fandom turn into a baseball bat wielding firm?
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Slender Man fandom was never an "online cult," as some publications claimed.
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Read the rest of our Fandom Week content so far right here.
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The same hot debates may be approaching Marvel fandom at light speed.
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You can hold a grudge for the rest of your fandom days.
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When Veronica Mars premiered in 22004, it rapidly established a cult fandom.
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Step aside, because your fandom has nothing on this world record holder.
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"The infinite universes are absolutely key to the RickMorty fandom," Futagogo said.
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Watch How 'Sailor Moon' Fandom Became a Refuge for 90s Queer Kids.
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I can't deal with all the ship wars in that fandom, though.
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Got another fandom term you want defined or added to the list?
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Like all great fandom cultures, the trans Snape community lives on Tumblr.
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Watching the fandom unexpectedly champion Parvati has been a lot for Dollarhyde.
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The future of furries The future looks bright for the furry fandom.
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Yaddle has, sadly, become something of a joke in Star Wars fandom.
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For example, a "greymuzzle" is an older member of the furry fandom.
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The fandom has grown big enough to get the attention of academia.
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The very nature of the show's fandom goes against cynicism and doubt.
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My incessant talking and obsessive fandom was a blessing, not a curse.
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Still, neither of these positions fully explain the left's fandom for Fidel.
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Sports fandom: where the line between passionate and certifiably insane is invisible.
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But part of any fantasy fandom is improving your trivia street cred.
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That's the thing with fandom in the groupthink era: no grey areas.
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Few franchises garnered a more hardcore fandom last generation than Mass Effect.
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Everybody's run afoul of an overzealous fandom at one point or another.
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Some argue that placing racial boundaries around expressions of fandom is unnecessary.
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Or save it for Paradise — the fandom will be happy either way.
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Star Wars isn't the first fandom to pull this kind of stunt.
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My core group of fandom friends stopped going to conventions after 2011.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that Trekkies were the first fandom.
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That's always been the lurking variable in mainstream entertainment's turn towards fandom.
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The royals fandom is the most toxic community that I've ever encountered.
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French's fandom is a cult, passionately devoted and completist in its attention.
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My friend H. was patient zero for our Tegan and Sara fandom.
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For the "Generation Q" team, contributing seemed to straddle work and fandom.
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Super fandom What does this admiration of Lincoln and Washington tell us?
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Our critic Wesley Morris wrestles with their stories, and his own fandom.
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It is us—the people, the world, the fandom—that has changed.
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I grew up in Boston and can't help my own Patriots fandom.
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"It's an outlet, and the fandom and community are amazing," she said.
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Under DeConnick and Soy's run, a fandom called the "Carol Corps" emerged.
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Bacon-Smith was into transformative Star Trek fandom: zines, fan art, fanfic.
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No one is writing tittering, vaguely disgusted anthropological examinations of sports fandom.
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Many people have equated politics fandom with sports fandom — you have a political "team" you root for, and you get upset when the other guys win — but I think pop culture is almost more useful as a lens.
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"Most of the furry fandom news is spread through Twitter — whether it's convention information, drama, fandom news, someone's new suit, art, or videos — it is all found there," Vix, a 24-year-old furry living in Pittsburgh said.
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The Veronica Mars fandom went above and beyond to keep that show coming back again and again, and the showrunner responded by destroying the piece of the show that a huge part of the fandom cared about most.
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At the same time, art prompts on Tumblr in which fandom artists were encouraged to "draw your OTP" — that's One True Pairing for fandom newbs — became popular, with dedicated blogs popping up for suggesting prompts and collecting the results.
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But if you're after a gadget or piece of memorabilia to show off your Harry Potter fandom (or a fandom of other popular movie, TV show, or gaming franchises), it's still worth checking out the sale while you can.
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That means ditching the relationship that anchored the show's devoted fandom, the fandom that brought it back from the dead not once but twice — and the relationship that at times threatened to swallow the rest of the show whole.
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The intersection of fandom and beauty reached an all-time high this year.
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These charms are for the Daryl Dixon stans of The Walking Dead fandom.
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Ff.net changed everything by creating a single repository for fic from every fandom.
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The full FanSided 2017 Fandom 250 list, sortable by category, is available here.
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The furry fandom is one of the most inclusive subcultures on the internet.
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Every Friday this summer, Refinery29 explores at the passionate, rollicking world of fandom.
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Along with it comes the #Hessa fandom — and all of the controversies attached.
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In those areas, fandom choice comes down to one factor above the others.
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The modern state of fandom involves an uneasy imbalance between fans and creators.
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Kristin Davis is never too far from the Sex and the City fandom.
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That kind of fandom is simultaneously the peak of loyalty and its antithesis.
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My family and friends for entertaining my super fandom of the Titanic movie.
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Instant affinity like that is one of the true joys of shared fandom.
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"It's made for fandom and it's made for fannish people," Brennan told Vox.
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Fandom as an adult looks different, feels different, and is generally performed differently.
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What do you get when a children's textbook update morphs into viral fandom?
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Performing is what Beyoncé does best, so this is exciting for her fandom.
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Have you been exposed to a Saturday Night Live fandom with this approach?
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In recent years, several prevalent ship dynamics have become embedded within fandom culture.
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A lot has happened in the world of Harry Potter fandom since 2015.
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But The Bloody Board served a purpose beyond being an outlet for fandom.
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So have a look and enjoy and get on their Potter fandom level.
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Another huge shift in the fandom was the breakup of Pattinson and Stewart.
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Cool. It's truly a diehard fandom that's undeterred by several hours of puking.
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Immediately, a shockwave of speculation rippled through the galaxy of Star Wars fandom.
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Unfortunately, they miscalculated the demand and the ravenous, immature nature of the fandom.
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It's really the fandom who takes to liking a certain type of queens.
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And fandom is as good a place to start as any right now.
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When it came to his situation, Slatton said his mother's Gaga fandom helped.
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The show's men weren't the only ones to deal with Gossip Girl's fandom.
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This ring is the subject of some contention and debate among the fandom.
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The poet's words are beloved, but inspire a rabid, possessive sort of fandom.
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Here comes the part that sent the Star Wars fandom into a tailspin.
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Much of the pleasure of fandom comes from being connected to other fans.
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Will any of this be enough to make fandom reassess its current attitude?
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But there is something about the Gilmore Girls fandom that sets it apart.
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"A new fan has joined the hockey fandom," they said out loud, probably.
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The new MST23K riffs reflect this creative team's experience with mainstream geek fandom.
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On the Web, where K-pop fandom thrives, many music videos include subtitles.
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Fandom is inherently conservative — it's literally an institution set up to preserve something.
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Summer TV you can feel good about Keep an eye on the fandom.
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They both celebrate fandom and the unique pleasure of sweating the small stuff.
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Fandom operates on pack mentality: to scream in a crowd is to belong.
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It is, I say in the book, as if death had a fandom.
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Benioff and Weiss are finally giving fandom exactly what it wants to see.
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Despite its mostly female fandom, the exclusion of female representation has been disappointing.
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Corden, however, has a quality of guilelessness—eager and puppyish in his fandom.
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But that same fandom has helped turn Daryl into a somewhat shallow character.
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Specifically, the world where everything that fandom loves eventually becomes an animated series.
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Various Rajandevoted pages on Facebook have a combined fandom of over 250,000 people.
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Plante estimates the fandom is between 100,000 and 1 million people — and growing.
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And so, despite my love for DMB, I don't make my fandom public.
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MADONNALAND And Other Detours Into Fame and Fandom By Alina Simone 128 pp.
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We imagine, given her fandom, that her reaction was something like Sutton Foster's.
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He's a dark hyperextension of fandom, but not unrealistic as a human being.
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Jimmy's son Jamie is a co-founder and Head of Fandom at NTWRK.
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But the nature of fandom seems to have morphed in the past decade.
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Our critic Wesley Morris wrestles with their stories and his own Jackson fandom.
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Our fandom just isn't safe and sound anymore (from the Hunger Games soundtrack).
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But few series have a year-round thriving internet fandom like this one.
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We're in a time when there is such fandom, such fervor over cooking.
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Many of us can trace a continuous line of fandom through our family.
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And anything, or anyone, that can cut through fandom rage must be praised.
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In Thrones fandom, rankings of character deaths became as common as episode reviews.
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What do you think a healthy discussion about toxic fandom would look like?
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This dress-up, known as "cosplay," has become a celebrated part of fandom.
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And alongside that mainstreaming, fandom itself changed and evolved in dramatic, significant ways.
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Do we think of fandom differently now than we did a decade ago?
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I started lurking in Gossip Girl fandom around 23 out of sheer boredom.
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A fandom can't survive without fans there to fan the fires of enthusiasm!
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Their fandom gives us a fun look at these presidents this Presidents Day.
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Also keep in mind that these fans don't represent fandom as a whole.
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In 1986, women were writing articles defending fandom in the New York Times.
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More artists should express their mutual fandom in this manner, in my opinion.
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I don't want to name my fandom, I want them to name themselves.
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In many ways, this particular meme seemed to explode overnight from Twitter's fandom Id — that is, it appeared to come out of nowhere and spread across fandom communities on the platform in just under two days, between April 26 and 29.
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The obsessed, regressive fandom on display is a pointed jab about nostalgia and fans who resist changing their ways, making this episode a commentary not only on the show, but about the toxic individuals who inevitably emerge in any fandom.
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Thus, transformative fandom is primarily the bastion of white women, queer, and genderqueer fans, although there are many fans of color as well — all people who have traditionally been barred from curatorial fandom due to things like the aforementioned gatekeeping.
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Veronica Mars has long had the kind of fandom that contemporary shows aim to cultivate in the age of social media, and it built that fandom on message boards like Television Without Pity and pre-MySpace social media platforms like LiveJournal.
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And though it was generally accepted that whoever wrote it must have been trolling Harry Potter fandom, broader fandom culture, or both, the lingering uncertainty over the story's intent meant that My Immortal occupied a peculiar space in internet culture.
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Laura JV told Vox that the general spread of broadband internet helped increase the number of voices in the fandom and the number of people paying attention to queering the canon — which ultimately led to a fandom-wide reevaluation of Lando.
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Last week, while outlining the most popular misconceptions about fandom, Vox's Constance Grady pointed out that the majority of male-dominated "curative" fandom, which is generally focused on factual knowledge, tends to align with mainstream media and society in ridiculing and being perpetually baffled by its "transformative" counterpart: web-based, female-dominated, fanworks-based fandom, which is generally focused on analysis and creation of new works around the original source.
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Ahead, we've rounded up the very best fandom nails we've encountered on — where else?
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One of the largest entertainment fan sites around is spawning its own sequel: Fandom.
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In a testament to the power of fandom, the song now tops the chart.
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Few things can make fandom seem like pathology as fast as collecting celebrity memorabilia.
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Fandom is a crazy thing — sometimes just as crazy as ex-girlfriend Rebecca Bunch.
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Maybe it's because she's worked through relatively traditional channels to create influence and fandom.
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According to its Wikipedia fandom page, that sword hasn't been seen since Joffrey's death.
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The latest installment of this appreciative fandom is a doll version of the teen.
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How do you decide what shows have that fandom necessary to appear on Twitch?
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This is just a small sample of the kind of enthusiastic fandom Aina inspires.
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The latter is a pretty common criticism of DC Comics Joker fandom, for instance.
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For anyone in your vicinity, though, it might be a little too much fandom.
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The only misstep, interview-wise, is a heavy reliance on podcasters and fandom figures.
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A joke in the Ice and Fire fandom is that everyone's a secret Targaryen.
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There's also a moment in the mid-season premiere which may divide the fandom.
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There was nothing about me really that was ultimately special, worthy of their fandom.
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If E3 does continue further down the path of fandom, it won't be alone.
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Mother of the PLL fandom, showrunner I. Marlene King, will run the new series.
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Other minor characters became important again just long enough to rile up the fandom.
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Yes, Swift owes plenty to her strong fandom, but Anderson's wedding wasn't about Swift.
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I also follow a lot of meme bloggers and various fandom blogs as well.
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The HP fandom hasn't died at all since the release of the last book.
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" She continued, "It just goes to show what you'll do based off your [fandom].
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The ship name is a huge part of how people self-identify in fandom.
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The fandom turned toxic and aggressive with an intensity that bordered on the obsessive.
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Avengers: Infinity War is an epic payoff for a decade of onscreen comics fandom.
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This is also how Ticketmaster's Verified Fan has become a new ritual of fandom.
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This February, it was Apple's turn, despite Trump's strange history of Steve Jobs fandom.
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Remember, the draw of transformative fandom is often in exploring what the text omits.
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I like to have a little bit of fandom on me at all times.
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Read Outlander and enter into a devoted fandom, just like Claire entered the past.
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Wow, way to play to the fandom complaining about Sara's constant need to shower.
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Or her growing Instagram fandom, which now counts over 2.6 million extremely engaged followers.
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It's a celebration of fandom that joyfully invokes the best qualities of online communities.
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This is not your typical fandom; not like the ones we normally discuss here.
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How does the love at the heart of fandom curdle into something so caustic?
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"When you come to Vegas," she said, showing off her group's proud Dion fandom.
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But, for the most part, her collection is a daily showcase of her fandom.
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These games spawn a fandom that can be hard to understand from the outside.
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But as I quickly learned, Veronica Mars' relationship with its fandom wasn't purely positive.
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You can stick to the fandom labeling or really get creative, like these people.
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Every character has a vulnerability, and in Mobley's case, that vulnerability is Android fandom.
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It demonstrates a love and understanding of Souls that isn't grounded in simple fandom.
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This award is for all of fandom to celebrate what they think is great.
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There's a venom lurking that suggests there's something deeper than simple fandom at play.
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Wrestling fandom in Toronto will never waver the way it will for team sports.
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Milano skipped the opener, announcing his retirement from fandom for about the eighth time.
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When we adapt Spider-Man, that has half a century of canon and fandom.
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"Maybe they are going to be quietly allowed to express their fandom," he said.
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But in the crucible of online fandom, demographic distinctions can coarsen into warring factions.
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You may even bring your kids to convert them to full-fledged Beatles fandom.
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The congregation was — as spontaneous large-scale eruptions of fandom go — exceedingly low-key.
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I believe today's decision will change the face of sports fandom for the better.
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Befriending a real-life BB-83 is more than just obsessive Star Wars fandom.
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Rogers sometimes takes her fandom too far, excusing legitimate issues raised by Coppola's work.
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You know what they say: Everything (the beards, the fandom) is bigger in Texas.
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Apparently, not even celebrities themselves are immune to the contagion of Ryan Gosling fandom.
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Those familiar with the Pokémon fandom should know that every Pokémon is somebody's favorite.
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Perhaps other authors could write wizarding world books similar to the Star Wars fandom.
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Pinstripe fandom especially runs deep in six countries where eight Yankees players have roots.
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Some of the most ruthless online abuse comes in the name of celebrity fandom.
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She told me that we shouldn't be introducing our kids to fandom until adolescence.
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" Fandom, Jenkins told me, is "born out of a mix of fascination and frustration.
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And yet, some men just don't see their Rick and Morty fandom that way.
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But a Canadian transplant could help the city's new N.H.L. team find its fandom.
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I feel about the objects of fandom very much like I feel about myself.
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Afterward, Foles exulted in a way that spoke for the essence of Eagles fandom.
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I have friends who've created new careers out of their fandom and bottomless expertise.
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There was no place for cynicism inside the pink, throbbing aorta of Barbie fandom.
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According to fandom encyclopedia WikiFur, ANE's first con had 22020 attendees and raised $210,000.
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What a crazy couple of weeks it's been for The OA and its fandom.
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We're happy to welcome Milo Yiannopoulos to the Furry Fandom and the Furry Raiders.
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They stop short when they notice a rapper in their midst and feign fandom.
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Of course, fandom, like any inheritance, does not have to be accepted or embraced.
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GreenPark will give an opportunity for anyone to turn fandom into its own sport.
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Through the 22000s and early 250s, fandom existed on the internet in insular communities.
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Does quality break through, or is the raw power of fandom a safer bet?
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This is a calm, learning environment that accepts all levels of Star Wars fandom.
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Veronica Mars went on as long as it did entirely because of its fandom.
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Wasn't killing Logan a betrayal of the contract Thomas had made with the fandom?
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It's the kind of football maneuver that transcends fandom and goes down in history.
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"Too Fast to Live" ultimately feels like a celebration of record culture and fandom.
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In fandom, rooting for two characters to become a successful couple is called shipping.
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Todd VanDerWerff: As a professional critic, I am naturally a little suspicious of fandom.
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And both Kelly and Jackson, according to these documentaries, took advantage of that fandom.
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So, for some Alabamians, Spann fandom started in the first grade — and never stopped.
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Gaining access to the Star Wars fandom is certainly one way to do that.
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Skin care has become a cultural touchpoint, a form of self-care, a fandom.
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Once again, the photographer Michael Marcelle shot some of the magical fandom with expertise.
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But ultimately, all it's done is illustrate why curatorial fandom, left on its own, will never be as satisfying as a fandom that allows everyone access to the same story, and lets new stories have just as much value as the old ones.
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I was no Turbojugend, but my own youth as a music fan illustrates some of these other key dynamics of fandom and some of the significant differences between fandom before and after the internet, which we'll return to at the chapter's end.
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But this campaign showed Hollywood that fandom culture at large could be channeled to act as an early investor for projects the industry might deem too risky — and as a result of its record-breaking success, industry attitudes toward fandom rapidly changed.
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But after you've done that, your next stop should be Kotaku's Fave This, a new podcast (fewer than 10 episodes right now!) that begins in the world of video game fandom and then takes a more expansive view of fandom as a whole.
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There are also plenty of third-party fandom apparel, accessories, and household items on sale.
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Danvers has amassed a fandom largely made up of women known as the Carol Corps.
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I'm generally a nostalgic person, and Brigsby Bear has that element of nostalgia and fandom.
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Necessary or not, it's still Star Wars and fandom means no movie gets left behind.
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And Harry Potter fans' creativity is still being felt in and outside of the fandom.
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Kem still keeps an eye on the fandom, but has lost interest in writing fanfic.
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It's a great way to keep the fandom growing, as the account's 98,000 followers show.
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We were restless, even those of us in the "respectful of process" fringe of fandom.
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As for specifically Tumblr and specifically fandom Tumblr, I think this is the most extensive.
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They sometimes base the design on their logo or another easily recognizable symbolic fandom reference.
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Game of Thrones is over for the season, but the series' fandom knows no bounds.
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I was ready to convert to Wegmans fandom until I tried the vegetable fried rice.
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Clearly they underestimated the widespread fandom for "Classic Trix"— rainbow palette, childhood memories and all.
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Google is giving its Assistant some new powers in the name of Star Wars fandom.
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Each production company has a ton of intricate superheroes and villains to satisfy each fandom.
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I'm up for a big body count and a daring new era in fandom storytelling.
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"Con Man is a celebration of the world of Cons and that fandom," Tudyk said.
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And here's what you need to know about Suicide Squad, its popularity, and its fandom.
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As a celebration of fandom, 2017's New York Comic Con reflected the year's trends.
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Warriors fandom is more strongly correlated with a love of Mac Dre, Tyga and Drake.
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It's a commentary about white male entitlement, sexism, and the fraught waters of overbearing fandom.
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He rebuilt Pinboard as a haven for the fandom communities that Delicious inadvertently drove away.
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But one reveal has rocked fandom more than any other: Data is on the show!
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Buffalo Bills fandom has come a long way since the infamous dildo Incident of 2016.
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But probably the best explanation for the new fandom is the sweet taste of victory.
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It was a decent laptop, but hardly spectacular enough to warrant any kind of fandom.
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It's hard to quantify just how large the Slender Man fandom was at its peak.
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It's this crazy thing of a fandom on my social media that's arisen from it.
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Everyone in Marvel fandom — and we mean pretty much everyone — loves Thor's trickster sibling, Loki.
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If any fandom is going to respect such a request for privacy, it's this one.
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These characteristics and behaviors make Bran easy to read as an avatar for curatorial fandom.
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In the meantime, we can show our commitment to the Mamma Mia fandom on Halloween.
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It was a haven for nerdy fandom debates, and for writers getting their sea legs.
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I also think it's Joss Whedon's homage to fandom and to Buffy geeks in particular.
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Even in the darkest depths of obsessive Star Wars fandom, this is not a thing.
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Foxhoven's last email has him sticking to his guns after complaints about his rabid fandom.
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But, obviously, I am now old, and the language of fandom has changed since 2006.
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This is fandom at its most ridiculous, and the internet at its most self-aware.
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Netflix's newest series, 13 Reasons Why, can now lay claim to a pretty awesome fandom.
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I remember the hype and excitement from Carol Danvers's fandom, known as the Carol Corps.
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Once a year, the day comes when we can truly express our Star Wars fandom.
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Soaking for four days in pure, unadulterated fandom can take a lot out of you.
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Most of it was filler for the fandom, but Ali did make a great point.
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Though HackerGiraffe's intentions were good, they weren't spared from the hornet's nest of YouTube fandom.
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Snapchat gained fandom among millennials for its iconic rainbow vomiting lens and puppy face lens.
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Some I had noticed over years of dedicated fandom, but others were brand new finds!
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The cocktail menu features a number of beverages with names sure to satisfy the fandom.
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How they were able to look down their noses at the latecomers to their fandom?
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"I can't believe an 11 second video represents the entire fandom," wrote one Twitter commenter.
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Recent events have called attention to a strain of fandom that crosses into uncomfortable territory.
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Although Nelson had never before attended Doggy Con, she was no stranger to fandom festivities.
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Most of the fandom-heavy supernatural shows are dramas and there's no dearth of them.
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This is where the facts of Blizzard's tweet tease start to collide with fandom speculation.
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Watch our new film 'How 'Sailor Moon' Fandom Became a Refuge for 90s Queer Kids'
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The online "Star Wars" fandom is becoming more polarized in the Trump era, Bay wrote.
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It's in the nature of fandom, of course, to crouch protectively over a beloved program.
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C'mon, Shonda, you don't have to say it was "for my daughter;" own your fandom!
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It's the one time where I'm able to experience the flipside of my own fandom.
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I read that "Green Peppers" was written during a period of intense Taylor Swift fandom.
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The two-day April concert focused around Insane Clown Posse fandom and getting fucked up.
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The harassment is just the latest instance of feminist fandom voices being shut down online.
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The BTS Army, as the group's fandom is affectionately called, is happily obsessing over "Scenery."
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"I think the culture of Boston fandom plays a part in this," he told me.
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There are so many books that explore someone's individual fandom, but those aren't that accessible.
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Indeed, trading speculation is a huge part of the appeal of fandom for many viewers.
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Black Widow and Scarlet Witch have the same clout in superhero fandom as Jean Grey.
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At night, a series of fandom fave DJs blasted the crowd with EDM and trance.
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Flourish Klink is the co-host of Fansplaining, the podcast by, for, and about fandom.
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When it comes to Kerr's fandom, the nonsports stuff does not get in the way.
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We promise Joe Six Pack won't be fouling the place up with his budget fandom.
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And these experiences link together into a vast collective that constitutes the cosmos of fandom.
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Previously demonstrated Ford fandom and a massive social media following definitely helped an applicant's chances.
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Merchandizing Halloween (which is really merchandizing fandom) started in the 1930s, when Ben Cooper Inc.
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The analogy with current American politics was inescapable — all hockey fandom, like politics, is local.
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Her "journey through the world of Jane Austen fandom" is amusing and sometimes mind-boggling.
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Disney and HBO (a WarnerMedia subsidiary) have approached the fandom model in a different way.
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Even the dogs of the world count themselves as a part of the Frozen fandom.
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Take, for example, queerbaiting, one of the most frustrating fandom-related phenomenons of the decade.
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"This is an online fandom," says Tracy E. Robey, a historian, journalist, and beauty blogger.
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Our critic Wesley Morris wrestles with their stories and his own fandom of the star.
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Other candidates haven't shied away from weaving some George Lucas fandom into their own efforts.
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Start with our primer on fandom and follow along with the series throughout the week.
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Because fandom is the province of young women and, culturally, we find young women terrifying.
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For women and non-cisgendered men in fandom, however, these tropes are harder to overlook.
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Check out the clip ... seems there's only one way the Raiders could melt Cube's fandom.
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It's such a special fandom—you don't get any competitiveness, and everyone is really respectful.
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And while Tumblr, where transformative fandom has found its most visible home, has quietly fueled mainstream pop culture for a decade by funneling memes and fandom terms into common cultural parlance, it's also been written off as nothing more than a silly platform for teens.
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To me, fandom culture is equal parts dangerous, intriguing, and somewhat understandable, and while its degree of severity may be transient over time, fans of megastars and the call-to-action aspect that comes in line with said fandom isn't going anywhere, anytime soon.
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Characterized by the intermingling of pop-culture fandom and progressive politics, "nerdfighteria" was one of YouTube's contributions to the evolution of modern internet fandom as it grew increasingly mainstream and morphed into a real-world movement — one that carried online community and activism offline.
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In Devin Faraci's hugely discussed piece "Fandom Is Broken," for instance, Faraci primarily argues that fandom is broken via the prism of the Ghostbusters pushback and people who sent angry death threats to the people at Marvel who crafted the "Captain America goes Hydra" storyline.
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Someone will write about how fandom in general and fanfiction in particular is weird and probably morally wrong, and someone else will write a response defending fandom, and then the whole thing will repeat itself again in a few months or days or hours.
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Though there is a lot of overlap between Furby fandom and the enormous online furry fandom — which has a much more widely-recognized association with sexuality and with porn — she doesn't see it as a threat to the squeaky-clean ethos of the Furby collectors.
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Reason number one: In addition to my Drake fandom, I am also a major Rihanna fan.
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It's also the story of a fandom evolving over two decades along with the internet itself.
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"I discovered Star Trek fandom online because I knew it had to be there," she said.
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A sizable portion of the fandom is even uh... getting "creative" with their searches on PornHub.
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So we rounded up every time the pop star's Disney fandom was at a level 11.
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Fan Fiction (26)Fandom was once reserved for real-life meetups and zines printed in garages.
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So why do I give Iceage a pass, assuming that I'm not entirely compromised by fandom?
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I have been in the furry fandom for a very long time, since 1998 or 1999.
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Season — a soccer, fashion, and fandom magazine based in London — ran its first issue in 2016.
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Show off your favorite fandom with wide variety of backpacks, purses and wallets available at ThinkGeek.com.
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"It's a subtle yet empowering way to express your fandom," the company writes on its website.
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Alas, much this same reality-denying dynamic is at work in parts of Star Wars fandom.
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But a lot of effort was put into framing the fictional TV franchise and its fandom.
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Fandom came out in full Force on Thursday to honor Carrie Fisher for Star Wars Day.
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"Star Trek proved to be a watershed event in the development of modern fandom," says Jenkins.
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It's not every fandom that gets its own sushi, but Star Wars is special that way.
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The K-Pop group BTS, which has its own massive fandom, looked stunned during Lovato's performance.
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Now you have things like Disneybounding which is an intersection of street fashion and Disney fandom.
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Show them you totally get their Apple fandom and buy one backed by the tech giant.
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There is even video evidence of Baldwin's fandom from when the pair first met in 2009.
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The new system awards fandom and Swift-related purchases with increased access to eventual concert tickets.
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What I've seen with fandom is that these tech companies really try to co-opt them.
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Swifties, the fandom fueling Swift's mediocrity, have been riding the high of her topping the charts.
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Year after year, black queens have continued to endure racist threats and commentary from the fandom.
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And fandom had already created a black Hermione, and I had already called her my own.
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Fans carry a reputation as obsessive peons, but fandom is actually a place of rampant creation.
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Memes are born from the depths of fandom and take on a life of their own.
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Black Twitter has produced a lot of that language and form, and so has internet fandom.
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Or maybe not — and we'll just be battling it out in the great fandom wars forever. ●
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"They acknowledge Jake, but they claim Logan, they love Logan," Risley said of his boys' fandom.
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Part of the inevitable backlash from this dark corner of Trek fandom, of course, is generational.
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He then confessed his fandom for John Mayer's music: Read the rest of the interview here.
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To understand what's happening in the One Direction fandom, you have to understand what shipping is.
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The fandom was clearly eager for the spinoff; all it had to do was not suck.
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She considers herself more of a follower than a fan, explaining that fandom is for artists.
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Fandom is an activity, one in which demonstrativeness and superstition are the twin pillars of participation.
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His Star Wars equivalent, Kylo Ren, is a very on-the-nose portrait of privileged fandom.
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If you're involved in curatorial fandom, you may not see what difference any of this makes.
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The site always maintained a whimsical, meta nature for the larger geek world and internet fandom.
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We were trying to build a program reflecting the diversity of fandom and respectful of intersectionality.
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Urban Outfitters is killing it on the weird front, while ThinkGeek has something for every fandom.
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Either way, sabermetrically-informed thinking now informs a large segment of mainstream baseball writing and fandom.
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For me, the event was a chance to better understand the fandom of my favorite game.
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How do you see fandom as having changed through all that from the EU to now?
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Fandom is a concept as old as time (as old as sports and music, at least).
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But sweet tapdancing Pickle Rick, you've never seen a TV fandom more noisome than this one.
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The allure of Onfroy's dark matter inspired the type of fandom that spills into violent obsession.
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The middle of the Venn diagram between martial arts lovers and Pokemon fandom is hardly insignificant.
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As anime fandom grew online, Eva became one of the watershed must-see series for newcomers.
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Show off your fandom with these socks and let those around you know you mean business.
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His New Zealand upbringing, where basketball fandom is fairly niche, has kept him humble and focussed.
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Unblockable is tackling a new area for blockchain technology — sports fandom, specifically collectibles and fantasy sports.
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Fandom is more than just loving something more than normal, and it rarely exists in isolation.
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Nevertheless, a culture of fandom and support is certainly present in other aspects of Indian life.
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Predating the torrent tracker, "db" (as Anderson abbreviates it) is a quietly landmark achievement in fandom.
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A fandom is simply a community of fans, be they online or off, active or passive.
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Not just that: I saw in my fandom the cause of my young and ridiculous life.
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The "Game of Thrones" fandom is known for its artistic approach to celebrating the epic series.
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The Liars may not have chosen freedom, but they definitely picked their PLL fandom-approved OTP.
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Tumblr was built around community, around fandom, around viral absurdist meme blogs and street fashion bloggers.
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But the moment you begin to pull a thread, sports fandom does kind of fall apart.
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Drake's super fandom for the Raptors has been causing a stir leading up to the Finals.
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There are more than 45,000 fan-generated Star Wars stories on the literary fandom hub FanFiction.net.
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In other words, UnREAL is here to make you question your fandom of every Bachelor show.
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Even with a worldwide fandom and iconic status, the Beetle just wasn't selling new units anymore.
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The original 2005 release from Team Ico has achieved near-mythic status in video game fandom.
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This trend waned, and today the "Dark Age" is something of a joke in comics fandom.
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We're just going to have to keep our eyes peeled for more GatesNotes fandom until then.
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Egerton calls Madden "Dicky" and Madden calls Egerton "Ducky," as their Twitter fandom has figured out.
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You see, Agalloch was special; they were—are—loved in a way that transcends typical fandom.
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And fandom on the internet keeps an aspect of her personality and sense of humor alive.
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On this episode of American Obsessions, VICE dives into the inclusive world of Sailor Moon fandom.
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Lively took her fandom a step further, though, with the caption she paired with the image.
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Given that fandom is what's made Persona as popular as it is today, that's a bummer.
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This is very important for leagues such as the NBA, whose fandom spans 200-plus countries.
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These groups of men often participate in homophobic, sexist, transphobic "practices in fandom cultures," Pascoe added.
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We don't need to look far to find an example of live-or-die soccer fandom.
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But the market is also bolstered by the perpetual growth of the fandom—and suiting specifically.
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I've just grown to accept that it is part of the fandom landscape at this point.
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While football fandom is falling across all Americans, it is falling more slowly among nonwhite fans.
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Start with our primer on fandom and follow along with the series every day this week.
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Aja Romano: Recently, a spate of anti-fandom articles have made broad generalizations about fan culture.
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I talked to Susan Harter, a renowned child psychologist, about how kids receive their parents' fandom.
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Many of these people are great writers and/or great citizens of fandom—astute, critical, passionate.
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"Everyone is experiencing this for the first time, no matter the level of fandom," she said.
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So why are we expecting Benny from the Bronx to approach his Eli fandom with nuance?
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This isn't a feminist rallying cry or a cathartic airing of grievances, it's just a fandom.
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His previous soccer book, on the rise of soccer fandom in America, was published in 2016.
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"The fandom, while progressive, has sections where people are either very conservative or centrist," @S0LARDOG said.
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But the complexities of race and gender in the industry — and the fandom — are ultimately overlooked.
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Loves "omnichannel"; makes up for it through fervent fandom of the British proto-punk band Suicide.
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Warren doesn't generate the hysterical fandom that politicians like Trump and Beto O'Rourke provoke at rallies.
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It is democracy reimagined as fandom, and it is now a dominant mode of experiencing politics.
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Transformative specifies a type of fandom occupied by the possibilities of a written or cinematic universe.
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The subreddit for unofficial Girls Do Porn fandom started in 2013 and had nearly 99,000 subscribers.
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Kindle Worlds "was promoted with the language of fan fiction and fandom," Tushnet told Business Insider.
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And it wasn't a big step from cutting out fantasy to leaving behind sports fandom altogether.
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And with each step taken along this obsessive path, the darker side of fandom is revealed.
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Reddit user gtobe woke up to proof of some real Simpsons fandom in their university Wednesday.
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A portion of the Giants fandom also began to sour on Beckham because of his volatility.
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At the very least, join an online forum to talk about her fandom when it hits.
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The fandom has also suffered from a pretty standard Tumblr problem — being reblogged by porn bots.
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If you're not super familiar with the concept of sports brackets (and I understand there are huge swaths of sports fandom and pop culture fandom that don't overlap at all), you might dismiss seeding as an unnecessary step that complicates the easy elegance of the bracket.
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They also proved something important: A better version of "nerd" fandom isn't just possible — it already exists.
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Not everyone is amused by Drake's Toronto Raptors super fandom, especially Milwaukee Bucks head coach Mike Budenholzer.
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Ergo, Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande, the flash-in-the-pan couple that gained an intense fandom.
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It isn't a social network; direct fandom conversations happen elsewhere on sites like Tumblr, Twitter, and Dreamwidth.
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In the earlier, preshow days of the fandom, things felt much smaller and harder to break into.
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That same month, plaintiffs filed a motion requesting that Judge DeLuca recuse himself based on his fandom.
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After becoming a breakout viral success for her cute fandom comics, Stevenson created an original webcomic, Nimona.
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Several members of the fandom told me that the ideology has festered among some furries ever since.
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And it wouldn't have existed without this very specific way in which Twilight fans commercialized their fandom.
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It was a funny way for the hardcore to take fandom, knowledge, and memes to another level.
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Come for the intensely loyal fandom, stay for the incredible attention to detail and excellent makeup work.
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Both sides have taken shots via social media with long statements to the group's fandom, the Harmonizers.
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"Much of fandom is either quite passive, or is active in largely non-creative ways," Robinson said.
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There are T-shirts and hoodies so your friends can literally wear their fandom on their sleeves.
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Watch out Star Wars fans, there's a different fandom that might just be more devoted than you.
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One friend documented it all on Snapchat and the video has been circling the fandom ever since.
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Her "Little Monsters," as her fandom calls itself, are a built-in customer base that trusts her.
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Harry Potter fandom may be overwhelming, but it has also inspired some of Boyle's most memorable experiences.
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Danvers already has an established fandom devoted to her too, something that's been unique to the hero.
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Music fandom and gamer culture don't exist independently of one another; usually, they're one and the same.
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Though it's just 20 years old, it plays like the product of a different era of fandom.
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I give her all the credit for broadening my mind about how fandom was using these sites.
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And its burgeoning fandom has been churning out gorgeous works of fan art to show its appreciation.
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In fact, many Americans regardless of sports fandom could learn a lot from the Oakland A's pitcher.
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Another Stan Lee innovation was to understand comics' fandom as not merely a market, but a community.
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Global fandom communities came together to lend their support to Ariana Grande and her fans, the Arianators.
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Made up of millions of viewers from across the globe, the Marvel fandom is a unique bunch.
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In the words of the fans I spoke to, the harassers are outliers in the Musk fandom.
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Yeah, I think that tech has really enabled kind of the over-the-top fandom around this.
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And the more he picks up beloved characters to play with, the more their fandom will revolt.
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Bubbline, as the couple is known in online fandom, was banished to subtext for seven long years.
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Turns out that unlucky person was Sara "Shower" Harvey (Dre Davis) — no surprise to the fandom there.
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But it also makes you consider the actual point: was it poking fun at the Creed fandom?
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My tumble into this fandom was abetted by a widely distributed network of fans of Scandinavian music.
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For Barbz, fandom doesn't allow for dissent—even when it's not dissent but a valid, healthy appraisal.
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These die-hard fans represent a model for female fandom that doesn't current exist in pop culture.
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According to her caption, "super fandom" describes her love for Cameron's film — and the photos prove it.
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The Real Deal: To say that Star Wars fandom has been active lately is putting it mildly.
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In fact, it seems like a cynical and shameless ploy to take advantage of people's sporting fandom.
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The "Star Wars" creator tells them how he really feels about their "fandom" -- and it's pretty harsh.
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Fandom teaches coping techniques for dealing with disappointment, and how to celebrate victories in a safe way.
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His newfound fandom came about when he and Kelsey visited the Wizarding World of Harry Potter together.
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Both sides win What really fascinates me are the points in which hardcore fandom and criticism meet.
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This is the cynical weaponization of fandom, in which studios use our love of something against us.
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The Us star is caught in the grip of Game of Thrones fandom, just like everyone else.
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Click here to enter and upload a :60 second or less video showing ZTE your Android fandom.
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Seeing our young, awkward, adorable Luke dating someone like that made the majority of the fandom upset.
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But to most of us, fandom jargon — what we might call fanspeak — is a world unto itself.
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Mainstream culture tends to codify SF fandom as a white phenomenon, like golf, yoga, or tax evasion.
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A recent comprehensive Bloomberg survey of 5,000 Model 3 owners paints a fuller picture of Tesla fandom.
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This is a richer, more engaged kind of fandom, one that can invoke feverish levels of devotion.
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And even more will appear in the upcoming Star Wars films, thus keeping the fandom love alive.
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The HBO show was created by the king of the fandom obsession industry, Lost mastermind Damon Lindelof.
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"We don't feel like furry fandom is something we created, it's something that was there," Stansfield says.
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Recently, he and the playwright Will Arbery ("Heroes of the Fourth Turning") bonded over their "Fefu" fandom.
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Because there's a lot of negative connotations being associated with it on a more toxic fandom level.
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In the comments, various Zuckerberg fanatics engage in the ancient practice of online fandom: posting fan art.
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A quick internet search will reveal cult fandom for Vegas in Space is as strong as ever.
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"Readers Reactions to Allegiant Are an Online Fandom Horror Story," reads a Flavorwire headline from October 2013.
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He remembers Johnny, and Ed, and the audience, and how he used their fandom for cheap laughs.
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Star Trek fandom has long been fodder for cheap laughs and freak watching in the mainstream culture.
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The meme effectively shut down the toxic element of the fandom by using fans' smugness against them.
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Which brings me to my favorite thing to happen in the growing Into the Breach fandom: Notation.
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He is among a generation of influencers who are the new faces of bare-all subscription fandom.
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I honestly learned very tangible skills during my time in the fandom that I still use today.
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There is plenty of smart, sophisticated writing by fans to disabuse you of your misconceptions about fandom.
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The fandom some straight women have developed around gay porn stars has been known to get excessive.
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"Black cosplayers have had to awkwardly insert ourselves into the canon of science fiction fandom," he said.
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There was something pure about my fandom, an unabashed teen longing that didn't know to hold back.
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Waiting out the line is a badge of honor, a sign of ultimate commitment to your fandom.
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Fandom and television are tightly entwined; showrunners play to viewers and to the internet's appetite for dissection.
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Things aren't any better across the East River, where fandom has long been assumed for the Knicks.
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Yet his musical memory was still crisp: He recalled trying to draft André Breton into opera fandom.
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I had known what had gone on in the fandom and was able to expand on that.
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Maybe your fandom stops there, because you've been waiting for someone to demystify his catalog for you.
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Ironically enough, the next big Game of Thrones star was a little late to join the fandom.
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"this fandom is a FAMILY," the Twitter user @tareemax, who attended the Manchester concert, wrote on Tuesday.
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But this opportunity of basic American fandom may soon vanish from dozens of communities across the country.
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At the start of this decade, "fandom" wasn't a word most people knew, much less fully understood.
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You can argue that the entire modern entertainment complex now builds participatory fandom into its business model.
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Admittedly, it would be accurate to state that I am an active participant in the fiddlehead fandom.
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Our critic at large, Wesley Morris, writes about wrestling with his fandom as the agonizing stories unfold.
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Both the attacks and the defenses of fandom have been more or less the same for decades.
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Do you think these trolls are primarily related to comics or to Star Wars fandom, or both?
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But to her friends on Tumblr, she's a bastion of Fever Dream fandom; more specifically, the corner of Fever Dream fandom that is pretty sure Fever Dream band members Solly and Land are secretly in love, and that "the management" has forced them to keep it a secret.
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Once upon a time, that talent made HBCU fandom—largely among African-American fans, but also among whites who knew good football when they saw it—the equivalent of SEC fandom today, with many supporters rooting for and invested in the success of schools they didn't actually attend.
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Aja Romano: I think when we look back at the 22019s, there are some obvious immediate tentpoles that jump out to people as fandom milestones — but first, I really want to know what the most significant fandom moments of the last decade were for both of you personally.
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The fandom has swelled in size since HBO imagined Westeros for millions of viewers, but it's also matured.
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After nearly a decade, the hit HBO fantasy show came to a close leaving the entire fandom divided.
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When Maggie friend-zoned Alex, it was a burn felt across the fandom, because we can all relate.
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That hasn't been the case for a while, and if that's your idea of fandom, it's definitely cracked.
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But rarely did the deep, ride-or-die love for both boy bands cross over in the fandom.
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Plus, the Space Jam fandom has proven to be strong: Fans are willing to shell out for memorabilia.
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"Fans who are particularly visible within the fandom often gain higher status in the fan community," he says.
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It's easy to stand back from fandom and point to shipping behavior as a hallmark of fan entitlement.
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But comparing these marketing strategies underestimates the reciprocated loyalty that is the beating heart of K-pop fandom.
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The group had barred flag-waving, chanting and pre-march drinking — for many, essential parts of football fandom.
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The show has been off the air since 2012, but its fandom is still thriving and eternally devoted.
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We spoke with Sugar about that vision, what fandom means to her, and where Steven is headed next.
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Fandom, in Ready Player One's conception, may be sincere, but it's also diametrically opposed to getting a life.
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One of these choices, I imagine, is going to pit specific parts of the fandom against each other.
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The classics — stormtroopers or Darth Vader — are well represented, but new movies an enticing new challenge for fandom.
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This deal is an experiment, but it has big implications for the future of sports fandom and business.
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I really like the fandom community, they're one of the most friendly groups to support that use Pinboard.
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Samsung plans to release a "fandom" edition of the Galaxy Note 7 that is ostensibly safer to use.
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"We're trying not to be so excited because of the lost potential," Adams said, speaking for the fandom.
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Anyone who dies in Endgame can come back if the money's right and the fandom wants it enough.
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The idea of people living solely to maximize their online fandom has been done before, and done better.
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"My fiancé asks me why I'm still involved in the Twilight fandom all the time," Vee Elle said.
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If you can answer that question definitively you're well on your way to joining the mechanical key fandom.
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Another crisis of fandom looms this week with the imminent arrival of Drake's highly-anticipated new album Views.
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Together, they talked Wayward Son, the perils of sequel-writing, and how to deal with a giant fandom.
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If its predecessors are any indication, that sort of rapid fandom ought not be too difficult to stoke.
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Sosa was over-appreciated to the point of saturating fandom, and may still be living in the backlash.
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With the release of the movie on Netflix on August 17, the fandom is about to grow exponentially.
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A representative from Fandom, the company that hosted the Wiki, confirmed to The Verge that Nintendo took action.
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The fandom around the alt-right comedy troupe Million Dollar Extreme has long been one of those spaces.
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Genius, the annotation-turned-source-of-everything-music site, understands the importance of fandom more than anyone else.
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This year was a win for those who sit at the intersection of Blackness and pop culture fandom.
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He's stormed off stages, told crowds to shut up, and even made his fans question continuing their fandom.
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This community-generated content inspired Marble Hornets' creators to craft an entire video series dedicated to the fandom.
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I'm glad you enjoy your Jorah fandom, but to me, he's the medieval embodiment of Nice Guy Syndrome.
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As the internet began to grow, Harry Potter fandom and J.K. Rowling were growing right along with it.
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One such madcap expression of fandom involves plugging "& Knuckles" in at the end of... well... pretty much anything.
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The thousands of fandom-specific rooms are lively and strange, each with their own moderators and byzantine rules.
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They have a growing, slippery fandom that's a lot harder to define than those of boy bands past.
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That's because at this point, Game of Thrones fandom is a fractured fan base, not a united one.
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After Amber Heard's abuse allegations against Depp, Potter fandom fans were vocal about their displeasure, but Warner Bros.
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We're sure nothing in the following catalog sounds like anything you've done in the name of fandom, right?
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Leonardo DiCaprio winning an Oscar is one small step for Leo, but a giant leap for his fandom.
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And as anime fandom grew, so did the memes, the AMVs (anime fan vids), and the fan works.
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But the book's fandom know it would be different on-screen — less disturbingly poetic, more overwhelming and visceral.
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Buffy reruns are a constant," says Sophie, "not just for lesbian and queer fandom, but for basic survival.
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Freeman himself doesn't want to get caught up in any of the fandom that comes with the sport.
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Pyre isn't exactly a sports game, but it is a very good game about sports, fandom, and teams.
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Hulu's Veronica Mars season four is a kind of inverse of the movie in its attitude toward fandom.
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Some comes from the multiple layers of fandom, those who intimately beloved a soundtrack of their earlier selves.
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It's every great and small thing that fandom is, in short, and it is a glory to behold.
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It's a hot topic in the online community; most people in the "fundie fandom" seem vehemently against it.
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You start to get a critique on artdom from fandom too, or perhaps these distinctions are finally irrelevant.
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The image is joyous and candid, a perfect document of 1950 hairstyles and the power of musical fandom.
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They are a pinkish blob with feet, which in LGBTQ fandom, leads some to believe they're non-binary.
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It has since spawned offshoot comics, two movies starring Ron Perlman, and much fandom in the comic world.
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But I get just as much joy from watching the show's passionate, creative fandom engage with the show.
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Boelte's "Gilmore Girls" fandom sparked something else: a themed seasonal cocktail menu, on offer until later this summer.
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Fandom has come to play a starring role in how teenagers and young adults manage their identities online.
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The toxic fandom even pushed them to exit a planned "Star Wars" movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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" But even Powell couldn't avoid slipping in a hint of long-term fandom: "Woo's records are instantly recognizable.
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It's just one of the many narrow niches of fandom that makes gaming culture so worthwhile and fulfilling.
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That's OK—instead, watch our new documentary How 'Sailor Moon' Fandom Became a Refuge for 90s Queer Kids.
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There's always a bit of amazement in fandom when My Little Pony gets this kind of wide exposure.
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This kicks off with a new docu-series "Our Star Wars Stories," which highlights impressive feats of fandom.
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Whether it's out of pure fandom or some sort of emotion evoked by his songs, I'm not sure.
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It's a shame, because there's no place in the U.S. more fervent in its hockey fandom—sorry, Minnesota.
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As someone who is very strongly connected to her fandom universes, I have no right to judge people.
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MONDAY PUZZLE — Enthusiasm is one thing, but Ross Trudeau takes the whole concept of fandom to another level.
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She is forever frozen in time, immortalized as part of a specific moment of fandom and internet history.
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Sporting One of the first things that disappears when you write about sports for a living is fandom.
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However, soccer—and soccer fandom—has played a vital role in the complicated recent history of the country.
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The social typology of Elvis fandom extends to Mr. Hallyday, too, though the lines are less firmly drawn.
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Shipping is the common fandom practice of rooting for two characters or real-life people to get together.
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Linda Shoemaker, one of the regents, described her pilgrimage from casual fandom to casting a vote against football.
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons is just around the corner, and the enthusiastic fandom for the game is elated.
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Much of fandom is about continuity — knowing that games have always been going on and always will be.
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The board of Midwest Furry Fandom, consistent with our posted code of conduct, has rescinded Mr. Yiannopoulos's registration.
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The incident fuels a broader discussion of the relationship between fandom and corporate media, alienating many potential streamers.
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Musk, who also runs space exploration firm SpaceX, has expressed his fandom for the game in the past.
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Perhaps this is the point of fandom — to defend your rooting interest with gusto any way you can.
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Most of them come from a place of sincere fandom, but that doesn't make them any less hilarious.
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"What that message does is it reduces fandom to a very surface-level metric on Spotify," she said.
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Hardcore fandom was almost entirely united in its love, and casual fans flocked to see the green kid.
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Fandom became less of a collection of islands and more of an all-encompassing, increasingly weird internet party.
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If transformative fandom has one hallmark, it's that it always finds room for more in any given story.
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Theirs are the eyes big-budget creators now compete for, and in that way fandom won the 2010s.
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The response to the end of The OA' s journey is a reminder of the power of fandom.
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"You have to factor in the cultural power, the community power, the social power of fandom," Hinck said.
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It runs counter to the sports rivalries and bloodletting that many in the media and fandom often encourage.
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On Etsy, the fandom had created a market for pink princess merchandise, like enamel pins and T-shirts.
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The man who did that is George Pérez, and he is nearly unknown even in comic book fandom.
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In the history of sports fandom, dream matchups have been the topic of much discussion, debate and hype.
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Her follow up "Hey Arnold" gained the fandom of Yachty and moved him to hop on its remix.
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"The community that has cropped up around 'Game of Thrones' fandom is a particularly great one," he said.
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In essence, pansexual Lando is a sign of how drastically Star Wars' attitude toward its fandom has evolved.
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Loup told Vox that though she looked for stories featuring Leia, she was largely ignored by the fandom.
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It's also, crucially, the kind of fandom that's easy to rein in, as far as copyright is concerned.
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Fandom isn't so much entitled as it is increasingly critical of the art it interacts with, others insisted.
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At the time — fandom in 2005 — their unwavering faith that Harry/Hermione would eventually become canon was widely seen by fandom at large as extreme, because shipping was typically viewed as something that existed outside of canon and generally had no particular relationship to the course of canon at all.
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This divide, known in fandom as the fourth wall, was once part of a strict code of public silence that fans implemented in order to keep their fandom activities hidden and unknown from creators, both so they wouldn't embarrass the creators and so the creators couldn't attack or mock them.
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These are custom-made for many groups and often show off the unity and power of a certain fandom.
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And the few panels on cosplay and conventions feel insufficient to convey the importance of fandom in manga culture.
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What Really Happened: It's been an increasingly vocal period for online fandom lately, in both good and bad ways.
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These six pairs of cufflinks will satisfy your geeky guy's need need to display his fandom everywhere he goes.
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The One Direction fandom is responding to the news that Payne and Cole are expecting their first child together.
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But there's a new way to show off your Disney fandom that doesn't require notebook stickers and T-shirts.
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Analytics teaches us to be wary of mushy narratives and improbable occurrences; fandom asks us to enjoy them regardless.
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In the fandom wars, the only possible explanation for someone disagreeing with you about a movie is malicious dishonesty.
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Or is this a new idea the showrunners latched onto after the fandom wouldn't let the rowing Gendry go?
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The most surreal moment of their fandom-turned-day-job life was when they helped promote Life and Death.
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And if you thought he couldn't get any cooler, Syndergaard admitted that he owes his fandom to his mother.
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She's now taking a break from the demands of fandom as she feels that others are supporting them too.
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Game of Thrones has always felt like a shrine to the Starks, especially in the way the fandom operates.
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But the internet has made it easier than ever for celebrity and fandom to be a two-way street.
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Galaxy Quest also offers an affectionate look at fandom itself, capturing what makes fan enthusiasm so infectious, even laudable.
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Hermione Granger is a character I will always be grateful for, no matter what befalls the Harry Potter fandom.
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But even before she took the stage, the way that fandom saw Hermione had freed something inside of me.
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Major concerns arose among the show's fandom, following the announcement that so many characters won't be returning this season.
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It may be a little on the nose as a gift, but what fan doesn't like repping their fandom?
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Jennifer Lawrence paraded her Eagles fandom along a flight last night, much to the dismay of her fellow passengers.
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In a more serious film, these moments might all pass as simple nods to Woo's career and his fandom.
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Plus, the entire premise of the backdoor pilot and potential series actually originated from within Supernatural's women-dominated fandom.
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In Gilmore Girls fandom, there are three Teams that one can be on relating to Rory Gilmore's love life.
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It's not the flashiest or most glamorous way to express one's fandom, but it's definitely the most cost-effective.
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His political tenure has been marked by firm opposition to environmental policies, despite his alleged fandom of Theodore Roosevelt.
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Here is the current state of my Kristen Bell fandom: Sometimes I forget that we're not actually friends IRL.
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Viewers include die-hard book fans who've been in the fandom for more than 15 years at this point.
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There are also Targaryen loyalists who have built their fandom around the idea of Daenerys as a feminist queen.
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Those fandom seeds were planted during a family trip to Tijuana that the Baskins took when Bruce was 12.
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Here are the easter eggs, historical tidbits, and strange convergences that the newly formed Rocketman fandom needs to know.
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There's no equating sci-fi fandom to any faith held by millions or billions of people around the world.
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The idea that sharing food photos constituted a generous and glorious form of fandom didn't sit well with him.
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But for the leader of the free world, his fandom goes beyond unbridled enthusiasm for gadgets and space travel.
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The Smiths' impact on alternative music has been well-covered; their fandom transcend lines across genre, race, and subculture.
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So if you have always wanted to join the highest tier of coffee fandom, this is your best chance.
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In January, ahead of the 13 Reasons Why fandom, Refinery29 spoke to actor Ross Butler about breaking Asian stereotypes.
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If that fact alone isn't enough to get your '80s fandom radar screaming, here's an extremely content-appropriate trailer.
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Harry Potter fandom is overflowing with racist microaggressions Native Americans will have to deal with thanks to culture appropriation.
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" LIAM AND CHERYL PICTURES OF THE BABY BUMP"" LIAM AND CHERYL ARE HAVING A BABY"*FANDOM RIGHT NOW*: pic.twitter.
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There are better coping mechanisms that won't place minors at risk, and won't endanger other survivors in fandom spaces.
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This is a guy who has a back tattoo of Aaliyah, so yes, Drake takes his fandom very seriously.
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Winning franchises usually cultivate greater fandom, just as new presidents usually see their approval ratings climb after Election Day.
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It's as sordid as it is classy; part art gallery, part museum, part seedy backwater nightclub, part fandom city.
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That's why we've compiled a basic glossary of the most common terms and concepts you'll see in fandom culture.
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For many years, the widespread assumption within the Harry Potter fandom was that Remus was a canonically queer character.
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A simple fantasy propels Pokémon fandom: imagine finding adorable pets around the world and claiming them as your own.
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I am part of that passionate fandom who has spent hours upon hours speculating how the show would end.
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From his photo series, it appears the Carrot Man fandom has stretched as far away as Belgium and Israel.
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But really it's impossible to talk about the state of North American fandom without first—what's the right word?
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It's since been softened and incorporated in the fandom vernacular to describe a particularly devoted fan of an artist.
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" Stansfield, co-founder of the first convention, says it's sad the furry fandom is mischaracterized as a "sex style.
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Her son played computer and video games such as Minecraft, while her daughter partook in music fandom on Tumblr.
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So, "Game of Thrones" has done more than completely change television and the culture of fandom around the world.
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"I think what I'm excited to see the most is seeing the fandom that lives," Oakley told the audience.
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The artwork is the result of centuries of fandom, hand-copying the tale from one generation to the next.
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And modern comics fandom has its own problems with ingrained right-wing agitation and backlash against any progressive storytelling.
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"Our ability to reach our target of $500,000 now rests in the capable hands of the fandom," he said.
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So if you've been looking for a good way to show off that DC fandom, this can definitely help.
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Homestuck is over, but its fandom community will only grow outward, slowly exploding and expanding from its original beginning.
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Cross cites in particular the fandom around transforming D.Va from Overwatch into a Doritos- and Mountain Dew-loving gamer.
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Enjoy the walk: I mean, Red Star Belgrade is known for its insane fandom, but this is a lot.
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We were strangers, but on that night our shared fandom forged a bond that made the whole experience exhilarating.
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Katy and her fam hit up Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge Tuesday and there was no shortage of fandom explosions.
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Yeah, I want to kind of shift from those fandom posters and move towards art that I resonate with.
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Lawrence: The era of Sqad Up Wayne is kind of my coming-of-age period in my Weezy fandom.
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Above all, it involves a basic tension between fans and creators that is much larger than a single fandom.
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As a longtime member of online fandom, I've been participating in group movie nights online for nearly two decades.
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This purported "leak" reads more like a classic fandom conspiracy theory, the kind that's become increasingly common of late.
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Theirs was a different fandom than what had existed for past N.B.A. greats like Magic Johnson and Larry Bird.
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It just may be more noticeable with a fandom that's massive, non-centralized and highly social media-savvy. 5.
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A decade of transformative fandom rendered every fan an expert on exactly what elements of a story are important.
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Theirs was a different fandom than what had existed for past N.B.A. greats like Magic Johnson and Larry Bird.
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From food festivals to remote cooking classes, chefs seem to be the most frequent flying in the fandom universe.
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I grew up with Taylor, and I'm unabashed in my fandom, although I know she hasn't always been perfect.
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In fact, that fandom is exactly what inspired him to create a startup that now boasts millions of users.
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Let them pick for themselves A Cali couple bet their unborn child's football fandom on Sunday's Chargers-49ers game.
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But we now have probably the best data set ever accumulated on the fandom of N.B.A. players: Facebook likes.
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The new trilogy has been about pleasing the fandom and squeezing the most box-office potential out of them.
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In an interview, Oliver, the series's creator and showrunner, discussed empowerment, colorism and Ariana Grande's "First Wives Club" fandom.
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Whereas Peter Capaldi didn't quite win over the Doctor Who fandom, his predecessor Matt Smith did quite the opposite.
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He's been known to drop a whole mixtape on the fandom with little more than small hints as notice.
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Fandom creates a kind of one-sided intimacy, a feeling that we personally know the stars that we admire.
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The site, a fanfiction archive, is run by a fandom nonprofit called the Organization for Transformative Works, or OTW.
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It's one of those moments in Star Wars fandom that feels noteworthy, not only because it was a room full of fans who were united in their appreciation for the show, but because it comes at a time when it feels like Star Wars fandom is trying to work out some issues.
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Dr. Courtney Plante is a researcher with the International Anthropomorphic Research Project (IARP)—"a multidisciplinary team of scientists studying the furry fandom from a variety of different perspectives," according to their website—and Furscience, the IARP's public information hub with a mission to increase understanding and decrease stigma of the furry fandom.
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Other users on Twitter pointed out that "Larry" fan fiction is actually pretty rampant in the One Direction fandom, with "Larries" (the name for One Direction fans who believe that Styles and Tomlinson are secretly in love and in a relationship with each other) making up much of the fandom for years now.
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From his obsession with Dippin' Dots to his cosplay fandom, the man's tweets are a treasure trove of self-owns.
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There's an obsession with controlling things and owning things, and the boundaries—what's appropriation and what's love and what's fandom?
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"There was a lot of buzz in the community that the fandom would implode and cease to exist," Kem said.
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In it, highly critical of Trump, and the tome will assuredly inspire more Comey fandom on television, radio, and print.
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For This Is Us fandom, that kitchen appliance and the fire it caused became a lightning rod for tense speculation.
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Memes, news, Wikipedia, art, privacy, and the creative side of fandom are all at risk of being destroyed or kneecapped.
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Here's a look back at the way Harry Potter changed and influenced online fandom, millennial culture, and the publishing industry.
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And that's good because her role in Godzilla places her firmly in another fandom — and one that's existed since 1954.
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But, above all, it's Greenman's autobiography of an obsessive fandom, shamelessly and honestly colored by the author's own emotional responses.
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On the latest Saturday Night Live, BTS brought something that few other performers on the show can manage: intense fandom.
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People do really messed-up things in the name of their fandom, and I'm not here to defend those things.
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If they keep this up, the Twilight fandom may have the longevity of, well, a certain sparkly, blood-drinking species.
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Queer TV and film fandom has always incorporated some degree of fantasy, a conversation between the creators and the fans.
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In the Instagram comments, the fandom kicked into high gear, posting snake emojis and exclamation points, and all-caps screaming.
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The creators of Dream Daddy were already popular gamers with a fandom of their own — the LP group Game Grumps.
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Fans edited everyone in, from BTS themselves to the BT20193 mascots, BTS' pets, and even some fun fandom in-jokes.
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Whenever I see Pinboard users in fandom, we talk about things they'd like to see on the site or integrations.
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This became known as simply, "The Dynamic," and discussion of it dominated fandom shipping debates on Tumblr well into 2018.
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Instead, throughout the '90s and Renfro's early adolescence, Hollywood kept courting the child actor, trading on his name and fandom.
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Still, the relationship between fandom and the media they consume has been growing more and more linked over the years.
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Harry Potter and its fandom are in constant conversation with each other, two species of trees with interlocking root systems.
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She said she first got involved in fandom as a teenager writing fan fiction for Robert Asprin's Myth Adventures series.
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Curatorial fandom worships and upholds the source text above all else, rather than deconstructing it, or challenging its canonical authority.
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In fandom terms, shipping generally means rooting for two fictional characters, or in some cases real people, to get together.
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" Not being able to hold her fandom in, Metz took the commercial break as an opportunity to yell "Go Gators!
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With the many interests in the fandom, the line gets blurred between what constitutes a furry and what does not.
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The film celebrates diversity through powerful messages and embrace differences between one another, a concept that the furry fandom exemplifies.
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Yet, lately, it's the women involved in big, fandom-inspiring projects that receive the most brutal attacks on social media.
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How should fans react when they are faced with a creative decision they disagree with, within a fandom they love?
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But if you've spent any time paying attention to the fandom online, you know their love is a pure one.
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Technology has changed the contours of fandom and celebrity worship, but the fundamental sentiment is timeless, with clear historical precedents.
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Looks like he's embraced the Jonas fandom since then though -- and, apparently, aims to turn a profit eventually with this.
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I wanted to talk about the weird side of fandom, like maybe you've had some obsessed stans of your own?
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Rather, it's just the latest signifier of her pop cultural dominance, and another meta-layer to the Peppa Pig fandom.
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As we eagerly anticipate its return, it's important to do everything you can to keep the spirit of fandom alive.
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I think a key fact to remember in Star Wars fandom is that George Lucas says a LOT of stuff.
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The greatest rift in Star Wars fandom opened up 28 years ago this month, and it hasn't healed over since.
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Before porn actresses were hired, she interviewed them to see if they played the video game or knew the fandom.
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It turns out some of them were roughly my age, and how we demonstrated our fandom diverted along the way.
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It will be far more about some strange, hard-to-define combination of hardcore fandom, industry acclaim, and media buzz.
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Cleganebowl is a prediction that has stayed with the Game of Thrones fandom since the days of yore, in 2013.
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I've selected a few of my favorites, but really, the list is better enjoyed holistically as a monument to fandom.
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At the same time, the prequels were all box office blockbusters and introduced an entire generation to Star Wars fandom.
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Ultimately, for many LGBTQ+ identifying women, the K-pop fandom has proven itself to be a space to make friends.
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But even if you just barely understood Modern Family's nod to the franchise, you should get to know the fandom.
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That sounds sad, but it's not that sad because at least the internet lets me share my fandom with someone.
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So fandom language often focuses on identifying what kind of fic is being written and who's being shipped with whom.
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