What does it mean to be a fan and where does this Fandom come from?
As can be seen, nowadays everyone must be a fan of something regardless if its in sport, anime, movies, musicians and so on. Which also it is affected by the things that are seen on the internet or indulged in daily life. Taking a example of a marvels fan were people who were brought up watching these movies continuously as for now the recently made movie of Avengers: End Game where it was produced after 10 years of movie production which are almost all the heroes in the movie are connected to each other where of the parts of the movie connected as for example, Iron man has a short scene in Spiderman until the ending of endgame.
As for now since all the heroes are connected to each other which build a fanbase of sites for users to post the expectation of what is MCU is producing and on the internet, which is where the information comes from for fans to indulged in to satisfy their satisfaction in return to gain income of producing the next movie as a business. Besides that, since everyone is a fan of something where it also created the word “Fandom” which also changed the internet how it is today. As an example, fandoms who are the ones that are a fan of something till the stage where in their own home must have the collectibles of the movie that they are a fan of.
Moreover, these fans have created their own fan page website to discuss or exchange information regarding about MCU production of a movie or even collectibles which can be placed wherever they want. They also discussed the comics of the movie produced and their imagination suggested in the website let’s say what if the Avenger’s team were not who they are today and teamed with other heroes as an example.
On the other hand, after fandom, was created and some of the society can accept how these fandoms interact wherever they are especially online page which created a scene where these fandoms are weird to others instead of being a normal citizen. When there are good things happening which also the bad things will happen together so nowadays there are controversial part saying that fandoms are being toxic to the community which is good in the first place and now bad to society. These happens because of the fandom arguing against each other as an example of the old fandom movies such as ‘USS Callister’, where the fandoms have been watching these series for a long time already but then it happened in the fan culture which it became toxic to the society.
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