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English
Etymology
From lol + fan.
Noun
lolfan (plural lolfans)
- (fandom slang) A fan whose appreciation of something (generally a book, movie, or television show) is mainly ironic.
2010, Liv Spencer, Love Bites: The Unofficial Saga of Twilight, pages 192 and 194:Lurking on the periphery of the Twilight fandom are the lolfans.
2013 December, Sarah Harman, Bethan Jones, “Fifty Shades of Ghey: fandom and the figure of the anti-fan”, in Sexualities, volume 16, number 8, page 957:Macros and other explicitly humorous productions form a major part of the site, with ‘lolfans’ (the term Klink uses for people who read the books solely for the purpose of snarking on them) contributing many of the texts.
2018, Ruth Page, Narratives Online: Shared Stories in Social Media, page 156:Typically, this participatory practice is associated with 'lolfans': those who engage with a media product with the purpose of mocking it in forms of satirical humour (Klink, 2010, p. 23).
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