Fandom

Numerous people who enter a sports complex are there for a couple of different reason. These reasons can include such aspects of the fan experience as the nostalgic feel of the stadium, for the enjoyment of the competition, or even take their children to their first ball game. One of the lower concerns of the fans that come to these games are the face-to-face interaction that they have with individuals who are serving them their food. In order to be able to watch the entire game, these…

David Cox (2015), in his article "Celebrity Culture is Natural and Can Be Beneficial,” observes celebrity culture and the modern day obsession with the seemingly witless entertainment stars. It is quite a regular theme, even perhaps ironically, for movies to criticize the intellectual drain amidst society. There exists a notion that society needs to shift its focus of attention more towards intellectually gifted people than entertainment figures. The critical view taken by most still hasn’t…

The majority of teenage girls in the 21st century will claim to anyone who will listen that they are someone’s biggest fan, a total fangirl. Usually, this group or person becomes their main obsession, and everything they do revolves around them. Fangirls truly believe that they are the person’s soul mate, even though the obsession may not know it. Contrary to popular belief, fangirls have actually been around for hundreds of years, including back in the Puritan times of 1692. One of the…

The reclarification of Cosplay as nonviolent has a lot to do with the interactions of these players and how social media views their hobbies. Chairiyani, Herawati, &, Widayanti, (2017) suggests that Cosplayers community is ‘’The world is surrounded by fantasies, different values, and different norms’’. However, Cosplay reality is interpreted by mass media as a consumption of theoretical ideas. To change the social idealistic of Cosplay as a nonviolent deviant act, society must view them as…

This image was taken at the 2009 LBZ convention in London, and is of a group of people who are cosplaying as characters from the anime Hellsing. Cosplay is a term that means to dress up or role play, usually as characters from an anime, manga, or a book. In Laura Collins essay backpacks vs briefcases, she goes into how an important part of rhetorical analysis is its context (Collins). She says this because to be able to analyze something you must be able to understand it. The context is what…

something Sandvoss refers to as fandom as a homeland or Heimat or what Aden calls a “promised land” (1999). The conjuring of the notion of a promised land, for Aden, stems from the importance of place in fandom, yet Aden still refers to this place as one of spiritual significance, but replaces religious language with the notion of place (see Aden 1999, quoted in Sandvoss 2005, 60, 61, 63). Sandvoss, on the other hand, conceives of fandom as Heimat: In this sense, I believe, fandom best compares…

I'll admit; I've seen the nasty, embarrassing parts of this fandom, the parts which make potential armys want to avoid us. The inappropriate comments on YouTube, the delusional possessiveness over one member or another, those have certainly made their appearance. It's not been hard to notice Armys starting fanwars or hating on other artists for the sole reason that they are opposition. Hatred, rudeness, insensitivity, cruelty: I've seen them all. Such things sicken me, and should be addressed,…

How to Cosplay Cosplay? What is this cosplay you speak of? Cosplay is the art of making and wearing a costume and role-playing in it. Cosplaying started to become popular around 1990-1995 when people started to cosplay as their favorite superheroes or movie characters at sci-fi conventions. From then to now, more than a million people cosplay daily at conventions. What can you cosplay as, you may ask yourself? Well, you can cosplay as anything you want. You can cosplay as your favorite…

Have you've ever been into certain fan bases for a certain franchise that loves to talk about a lot of the aspects of it as general? Out of all the franchises that have huge fan bases, there are two science fiction franchises that are pretty similar but share some differences which are Star Wars and Star Trek. These are two Space Operas that involve some action pack adventures and a lot of exploration throughout the cosmos. Fans will also talk about how both of them are different. For example,…

The charmingly beautiful, “bronde” actress otherwise known as Blake Lively has accumulated 6.1 million followers with a total of 186 posts in 79 weeks on a popular form of social media — Instagram. @blakelively may be a fairly new face, or rather selfie, on Instagram; however, Lively has been a star since her youth. Beginning her career as a tooth fairy at ten years old in the 1998 Sandman, Lively has come a long way to playing major roles such as Serena VanDerWoodsen in the hit series, Gossip…