English

Noun

anti-fandom ‎(plural anti-fandoms)

1. The anti-fans of a television show, movie, book, fictional character, etc., taken as a group.
   • 2010, Jessica Sheffield & Elyse Merlo, "Twilight Anti-Fandom and the Rhetoric of Superiorty", in Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, & the Vampire Franchise (eds. Melissa A. Click, Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, & Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz), Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. (2010), ISBN 9781433108938, page 219:

     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.

   • 2013, Mark Duffet, Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture, Bloomsbury Academic (2013), ISBN 9781623565855, page 50:

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

   • 2014, Victoria Godwin, "Twilight Anti-Fans: 'Real' Fans and 'Real' Vampires", in The Twilight Saga: Exploring the Global Phenomenon (ed. Claudia Bucciferro), Scarecrow Press (2014), ISBN 9780810892859, page 97:

     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).

Synonyms

• hatedom

Antonyms

• fandom