Anti-fandom

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The anti-fans of a television show, movie, book, fictional character, etc., taken as a group.

    "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."

  2. 2
    Opposed to fandoms as a whole Internet

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hatedom

Antonyms

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fandom

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"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."

Etymology

From anti- + fandom.

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