anti-fandom

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Etymology

anti- +‎ fandom

Noun

anti-fandom (plural anti-fandoms)

  1. The anti-fans of a television show, movie, book, fictional character, etc., taken as a group.
    • 2010, Jessica Sheffield, Elyse Merlo, “Twilight Anti-Fandom and the Rhetoric of Superiorty”, in Melissa A. Click, Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz, editors, Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, & the Vampire Franchise, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 219:
      The Comic-Con confrontation is just one example of this tension, as Twilight seems to inspire a particularly active anti-fandom, which can be seen both in mainstream media accounts of clashes between fans and anti-fans and in the online forums we analyze in this chapter.
    • 2013, Mark Duffet, Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 50:
      That [Bob] Dylan might be involved in a game with his critics implies that he actively provoked his own anti-fandom.
    • 2014, Victoria Godwin, “Twilight Anti-Fans: 'Real' Fans and 'Real' Vampires”, in Claudia Bucciferro, editor, The Twilight Saga: Exploring the Global Phenomenon, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 97:
      From the point of view of fan studies, anti-fandom constitutes a response to something that “is perceived as harming a text as a whole,” such as Star Wars fans' antipathy for the character Jar Jar Binks (Gray 2003, 73).

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