Meaning of anti-fandom | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The anti-fans of a television show, movie, book, fictional character, etc., taken as a group.
2. Opposed to fandoms as a whole
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Examples

“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.”

“That [Bob] Dylan might be involved in a game with his critics implies that he actively provoked his own anti-fandom.”

“From the point of view of fan studies, anti-fandom constitutes a response to something that “is perceived as harming a text as a whole,” such as Star Wars fans' antipathy for the character Jar Jar Binks (Gray 2003, 73).”

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