Meaning of intrafandom | Babel Free

Definitions

Occurring within or part of fandom, especially a single one.

not-comparable

Examples

“When the 2010 TV.com poll declared that Supernatural had the craziest fans, perverse enough to make someone want to "claw their eyes out", some fans proceeded to demonize segments of the fandom for doing it wrong. Not all fans indulged in intrafandom wank, however.”

“Like Hills (2002) has pointed out, there are norms to adhere to also within the fan community, and there are hierarchies too. "Good" fan practice thus exists internally as well as externally. The intrafandom boundaries built around what is “good” or “bad” fan practice are not different from dominant-cultural boundary building—which seems to imply that “the natural order of things” seeps into the fan culture and provides a wider structure to adhere to.”

“However, these fans are members of the One Direction fandom and therefore do not misread the fandom as anti-fans do. […] Perhaps the most striking example of this intra-fandom antagonism comes in responses to Larry shippers.”

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