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Toxic Fandom: How Hollywood Is Battling Fans Who Are ‘Just Out for Blood’ — From Social Media Boot Camps to Superfan Focus Groups. Adam B. Vary. October 3, 2024 at 12:50 PM.
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]
Promulgated by the American attorney and author Mike Godwin in 1990, [1] Godwin's law originally referred specifically to Usenet newsgroup discussions. [3] He stated that he introduced Godwin's law in 1990 as an experiment in memetics, [1] specifically to address the ubiquity of such comparisons which he believes regrettably trivialize the Holocaust.
A report compiled by fan campaign organizers in 2021 and 2022 identified the four key values of fan activism as being intentionality, imagination, accountability and community care. [1] Fan activism has become more politically and societally focused, and fandoms take up collective action often for issues that are not inter-fandom.
Simon Pegg has become a franchise master in recent years, having appeared in the likes of “Star Trek,” “Star Wars,” “Mission: Impossible” and “Doctor Who.” During a recent ...
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]
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 ...
Fan studies is an academic discipline that analyses fans, fandoms, fan cultures and fan activities, including fanworks. It is an interdisciplinary field located at the intersection of the humanities and social sciences , which emerged in the early 1990s as a separate discipline, and draws particularly on audience studies and cultural studies .