[ SECRET POST #4097 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4097 ⌋

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Comments

[cbrachyrhynchos]

But there is clearly a colloquial sense of the word "fandom" for which this is not true.

Colloquial in what sense? Because as much as fanwork creators like to think the fandom universe revolves around their particular hobby, it really doesn't. And there are plenty of people who (to pick on an office favorite) obsessively follow each and every bit of Hamilton or Beyonce trivia to discuss it at the drop of a hat in the breakroom. It's pretty silly to say that the woman spent part of a morning networking with family to find a cousin with a citicard so that she could get concert tickets isn't part of a fandom.

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DA

It would be silly to tell her that she isn't part of a fandom, but I don't think she would be silly if she didn't self-identify as being part of the fandom.

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(anon who made the post that cbar was replying to)

I would say she might be "in the fandom" in one sense, and not be in it in another sense, because it's not necessarily something that has one particular and precise definition. It's a word that can mean a lot of different things. Multiplicity and that kind of thing.

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Colloquial enough to be comprehensible to people who are around or in that particular social milieu. Which those of us here pretty much all are.

I'm not saying that this particular way of engaging with media is universal, or better than any other way of engaging with media, or anything like that. I'm just saying that I think it is one distinctive mode of engaging with media, and it has a vague and amorphous but nevertheless existing social sphere around it, and we can talk reasonably about that as a thing without thinking that it's the only definition of fandom that it exists. And I think that this was a reasonable and understandable use of the term fandom given the context.