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Starwoids was a fandom name promoted by the 2001 documentary Starwoids [360] [88] STAYC: Swith Music group Pronounced as "Sweet", the name is a combination of the first letter of STAYC and "With", meaning "Together with STAYC" or "I'll be by STAYC's side." [361] Stargate: Gaters: Film / TV show [362] Stef Sanjati: Breadsquad YouTuber [363 ...
Live: Dan Carlson and Harry Doddema Fandom: Star Trek (American science fiction franchise) [11] Nukapedia (a.k.a. Fallout Wiki) 2005: Live: Paweł Dembowski: Fandom: Fallout (American video game franchise) Moved to Fandom in 2007; forked to The Vault by Dembowski in 2011 after he joined Curse LLC as an employee [12] Supernatural Wiki: 2006 ...
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.
Trekkies at a Brisbane on Parade event. Star Trek enthusiasts are one of the best-known examples of a pop culture oeuvre having a cult following. A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to a person, idea, object, movement, or work, [1] often an artist, in particular a performing artist, or an artwork in some medium.
Popular culture (also called pop culture or mass culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art [cf. pop art] or mass art, sometimes contrasted with fine art) [1] [2] and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time.
The cartoon contains many references to popular culture from the 1980s and 1990s, including video games, television, and popular music. [61] Joe Cartoon – Creator of interactive Flash animations Frog in a Blender [62] and Gerbil in a Microwave, [63] [64] which were two of the first Flash cartoons to receive fame on the Internet. [65]
The interest, reception, and reaction of the fandom community to the works being promoted have a marked influence on how film studios and others proceed with the projects and products they exhibit and promote. [56] Fandoms, for example at Comic Con, can sometimes lead to toxic behavior, including harassing other fans or media creators. [57]
Fandom Forward (Formerly known as The Harry Potter Alliance) is a nonprofit organization that was initially run by Harry Potter fans but that has since expanded to include members of various fandoms. It was founded by Andrew Slack in 2005 to draw attention to human rights violations in Sudan.