There's certainly some overlap between litfen and mediafen, but there's also a distinctly different audience of mediafen, who may never look at this group.
Source: wiktionary
Litfan
//ˈlɪtfæn//
Synonyms for "litfan"
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Personally, I was apalled^([sic]) at the divisions I saw within Star Trek fandom, where people wearing "Original Series" uniforms were sneered at far worse than I've seen from 'trufans', and the way some media fans sneer at others for watching the "wrong shows". Forget 'litfen' versus 'meejafen', the mediafen seem to be their own worst enemies.
Source: wiktionary
Point is we weren't a pack of "mediafen barbarians", we were real, live, young litfans (and hardly any of us read any fantasy, were SF fans); but we were from the burbs and we were unfannish.
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