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A leak from Fandom's Community Council was posted to Reddit's /r/Wikia subreddit in August 2018, confirming that Fandom would be migrating all wikis from the wikia.com domain, to fandom.com in early 2019, as part of a push for greater adoption of Fandom's wiki-specific applications on both iOS and Android's app ecosystems. The post was later ...
Fan activism is the efforts of a fan community to raise awareness of social concerns or otherwise support the ideals expressed by objects of the fandom. [1] The rise of fan activism has been attributed to the emergence of new media.
Wikipe-tan, a personification of Wikipedia, depicted in a swimsuit, an example of typical "fan service". Fan service (ファンサービス, fan sābisu), fanservice or service cut (サービスカット, sābisu katto) [1] [2] is material in a work of fiction or in a fictional series that is intentionally added to please the audience, [3] often sexual in nature, such as nudity.
The Organization for Transformative Works offers the following services and platforms to fans in a myriad of fandoms: . Archive of Our Own (AO3): An open-source, non-commercial, non-profit, multi-fandom web archive built by fans for hosting fan fiction and for embedding other fanwork, including fan art, fan videos, and podfic.
Old Friends and New Fancies (1914), an early example of shipping in fanfiction. The term "shipping," derived from "relationshipping," initially emerged in the mid-1990s within the X-Files fandom to refer to the fan practice of supporting a hypothetical romantic relationship between the main protagonists, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.
A hater, anti-fan, detractor or anti [1] [2] [3] is someone who enjoys writing, discussing, or (in some cases) making derivative works about a piece of media, but solely for the purpose of railing against or parodying it.
A theater in Beverly, Mass., has apologized to the community and its patrons who were offended by remarks made by "Jaws" star Richard Dreyfuss at a recent screening of the film.
Internet censorship is the legal control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet. Censorship is most often applied to specific internet domains (such as Wikipedia.org, for example) but exceptionally may extend to all Internet resources located outside the jurisdiction of the censoring state.