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Cosplayer dressed as Katniss Everdeen during the Montreal Comiccon, July 2015. A fandom is a subculture composed of fans characterized by a feeling of camaraderie with others who share a common interest. Fans typically are interested in even minor details of the objects of their fandom and spend a significant portion of their time and energy ...
Anime enthusiasts have produced fan fiction and fan art, including computer wallpapers, and anime music videos (AMVs). [ 205 ] Many fans will visit sites depicted in anime, games, manga and other forms of otaku culture, this behavior is known as " Anime pilgrimage ".
Groupie. A groupie is a fan of a particular musical group who follows the band around while they are on tour or who attends as many of their public appearances as possible, with the hope of meeting them. The term is used mostly describing young women, and sometimes men, who follow these individuals aiming to gain fame of their own, or help with ...
Fan art can take many forms. In addition to traditional paintings and drawings and digital art, fan artists may also create conceptual, sculpture, video art, livestreams, web banners, avatars, collages, graphic designs or web-based animations, as well as photo collages, posters, artistic representations of quotes from a work or artistic representations of characters in new contexts or in ...
Because of this power -- and this "closeness" -- fans have started to give themselves collective names. Some of them, surely, you're familiar with: Lady Gaga's Little Monsters, Justin Bieber's ...
Fan writers who argue that their work is legal through the fair use doctrine use specific fair use arguments in the context of fan works, such as: Fan works do not deprive the owner of the source material of income. Fan works may work as free advertisement and promotion of the original source material.
A wiki (/ ˈwɪki / ⓘ WI-kee) is a form of hypertext publication on the internet which is collaboratively edited and managed by its audience directly through a web browser. A typical wiki contains multiple pages that can either be edited by the public or limited to use within an organization for maintaining its internal knowledge base.
Kawaii(Japanese: かわいい or 可愛い, [kawaiꜜi]; "cute" or "adorable") is a Japanese cultural phenomenon which emphasizes cuteness, childlike innocence, charm, and simplicity. Kawaii culture began to flourish in the 1970s, driven by youth culture and the rise of cute characters in manga and anime (comics and animation) and merchandise ...