Fandom History
The first fandom created on the internet.
What is Doctor Who?
What is Comic Con/A Convention?
A war between two factions in space comes to ahead as a savior who can wield a magical weapon is discovered and rises to defeat the evil empire.
What is Star Wars?
A shortened term for literature written about an already existing property.
What is Fic/Fanfic?
This social media website allows for direct communication with the creators and staff of an existing property, and has been known to encourage and influence the creators descisons?
What is Twitter/X?
The longest active fanbase, spanning over 16 years straight with active content from the same singular media
What is Supernatural?
A hobby in which an individuals dresses up as a fictional character.
What is Cosplay?
A night guard enters a family-friendly restaurant for five nights and fends for his life
What is Five Nights At Freddy's?
The term for a character that is made with too many traits or too many powerful traits
What is a Mary Sue?
This game has taken over the gaming industry by storm and is one of the highest grossing games per year because of its in-game purchases, western stories, and japanese aethstetic.
What is Genshin Impact?
Created in the early 2000's this site was the first to feature art as its main sharble asset
What is DeviantArt?
An event in which another persons information is gathered and shared over disagreements in opinions (usually leads to legal repercussions as its illegal and shouldn't be condoned)
What is Doxxing?
A story about an experiment breaking loose and befriending other people similar in age in order to defeat the evil other experiments have leaked into earth.
What is Stranger Things?
Term for a charater that is extremely boring or extremely dark/angsty
What is Gary Sue?
This movie was first a fanfiction written on Fanfic.net that was turned into a movie due to its online success.
What is 50 Shades of Gray?
This show perpetuated theory-fandom culture and led to the creation of many popular fandoms
A story written that contains deliberate creepy elements, often categorized as its own fandom
What is CreepyPasta's?
A podcast about a radio host and the weird occurrences that happen in his town with his husband.
What is Welcome to Nightvale?
This phrase comes from a popularized song that talks about an obsessive fan going crazy and ending there life.
What is A Stan?
This fandom has become known as an extremely toxic one to take apart of due to its numerous doxxing events, harassment, and dangerous attitude of its fans
What is Danganronpa OR My Hero Academia?
This event led to the creation of Tumblr, AO3, WikiFandom, and caused flocks of fans to migrate to those sites.
What is the shutdown of LiveJournal/Fandom Forums?
The beginning event of a property that is given, usually celebrated
What is Premiere?
An ARG centered around online videos and websites geared towards child media.
What is Welcome Home?
A term for blank slating a character
What is Blorpo?
This song was popularized and topped the billboard 100 list in 2022 due to a AO3 fanfiction that reportedly crashed the site for 12 hours
What is Heat Waves by Glass Animals?