intrafandom

intrafandom

English

Etymology

intra- +‎ fandom

Adjective

intrafandom (not comparable)

1. Occurring within or part of fandom, especially a single one.
   • 2011, Katherine Larsen & Lynn Zubernis, Fandom At The Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/Producer Relationships, pages 127-128:

     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.

   • 2016, Henrik Linden & Sara Linden, Fans and Fan Cultures: Tourism, Consumerism and Social Media, unnumbered page:

     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.

   • 2016, Bethan Jones, "'I Will Throw You off Your Ship and You Will Drown and Die': Death Threats, Intra-Fandom Hate, and the Performance of Fangirling", in Seeing Fans: Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture (eds. Lucy Bennett & Paul Booth), page 60:

     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.

Coordinate terms

• interfandom