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Nerdfighters, another fandom formed around Vlogbrothers, a YouTube vlog channel, are mainly high school students united by a common goal of "decreasing world suck". [33] K-pop fans have been involved in various online fan activism campaigns related to Donald Trump's presidential campaign and the Black Lives Matter movement. [34] [35]
Fandom [a] (formerly known as Wikicities and Wikia) [b] is a wiki hosting service that hosts wikis mainly on entertainment topics (i.e., video games, TV series, movies, entertainers, etc.). [9] The privately held, for-profit Delaware company was founded in October 2004 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley.
Many fandoms in popular culture have their own names that distinguish them from other fan communities. These names are popular with singers, music groups, films, authors, television shows, books, games, sports teams, and actors. Some of the terms are coined by fans while others are created by celebrities themselves.
Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system built around user-generated content and games, [1] [2] officially referred to as "experiences". [3] Games can be created by any user through the platform's game engine, Roblox Studio, [4] and then shared to and played by other players. [1]
Image credits: jlegarr #3. So, i have a great story. We had a bit of a weird kid we called ‘Storyteller’. He was always making up story’s that were really far fetched but he swore they were ...
A fan wiki is a wiki [a] that is created by fans, primarily to document an object of popular culture. Fan wikis cover television shows, film franchises, video games, comic books, sports, and other topics. [1] They are a part of fandoms, which are subcultures dedicated to a common popular culture interest.
In 2006, an anti-fan of the K-pop duo TVXQ poisoned member Yunho with a super glue-laced drink. [9] [10] Instead of pressing charges against the anti-fan, he chose to forgive her, since the girl was the same age as his younger sister. [11] Such occurrences have resulted in an increase of security for celebrities in South Korea. [12]
They may request that fan-fiction archival sites remove and ban any pieces of fan fiction based on their original works. To date, no fan fiction archive has failed to comply with an author's request to remove works, [dubious – discuss] and many archives feature a full list of authors whose work cannot be the source of a fan fiction on their site.