fandom

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Recent Examples of fandom What has that part of it been like, encountering the fandom and everything around it? Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025 That’s the key focus of a burgeoning unit within advertising giant Havas that aims to take audience targeting to new levels by tapping into gaming communities and social networks built around fandom and esports. Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 5 June 2025 The mechanics of fandom can turn passive audiences into active participants. Adam Met, Time, 3 June 2025 It can be streamed the next day on Disney+ In the nearly 18 years since its 2007 debut, the Phineas and Ferb fandom has developed various theories about many of the cartoon's occurrences. Dory Jackson, People.com, 4 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for fandom
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Noun
  • The target audience will be different on each platform, as people use platforms with different intentions.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
  • The growth of the festival year after year is confirmation that American audiences embrace this.
    Jamie Lang, Variety, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • The game is tribal, and Liverpool is something of a cult, a mythical club where local heroes don’t leave easily.
    Henry Flynn, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
  • This type of mythology is also what makes Wilson, paradoxically, one of the most popular cult artists of all time.
    Sam Sodomsky, Pitchfork, 13 June 2025

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“Fandom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fandom. Accessed 25 Jun. 2025.

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