An event or moment · 2012 · Assembled fandom
Fandom wars
Organised conflict between fanbases, with brigading, ratioing and coalition behaviour, conducted with the grammar of war.
Fan organisations developed the same apparatus as states: recruitment, propaganda, alliance, denial. And the participants believe they are defending art.
Manipulation. One-sided attachment engineered for somebody else's benefit. Paid intimacy, parasocial persuasion, sasaeng, grief extraction, the streak. The lane that pays the bills and the lane that causes the most harm, frequently at the same time.
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The holiday special1978 → Transnational fandom2001 → The character is not the person2005
Where it sits
2010 2010+ · 2012 2026
Provenance · 2 source record(s)
- retrievableDocumented case: the #fakewesteros Twitter community during the final season of Game of Thrones - fans of a character declared dead fighting fans who knew otherwise, over leaksForcier, E. (2019). When the world ends: Study of #fakewesteros twitter fan community during the final season of Game of Thrones. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 56(1), 654-655. ↗
- unverifiedFanwars are named by the fans themselves as the reason their own space is toxic - some avoid the app or deactivate their accounts rather than stayAscue et al., Annyeong, Saranghae (De La Salle University). ↗
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