panfandom

panfandom

English

Etymology

pan- +‎ fandom

Adjective

panfandom (not comparable)

1. Occurring throughout or encompassing all of fandom.
   • 2008, Amelia Bitely, "'An Improbable Fiction': How Fans Rewrite Shakespeare", thesis submitted to Marietta College, page 70:

     […] scholars of fanfiction might instead question how this piece responds to the panfandom trend toward feminizing one male participant in a slash relationship (alluded to in Kustritz and Jenkins).

   • 2013, Casey Fiesler, "Pretending without a License: Intellectual Property and Gender Implications in Online Games", Buffalo Intellectual Property Law Journal, Volume 9, Number 1 (2013), pages 16-17:

     Additionally, the multiple-fandom affordances of Livejournal have made "panfandom" FRPGs quite common-in these games, characters come from across multiple media sources and converge in a single world.

   • 2014, Mary Frances Casper, "Family Don't End With Blood: Building the Supernatural Family", in Fan Phenomena: Supernatural (eds. Lynn Zubernis & Katherine Larsen), page 92:

     Fan-run conventions such as 'Kazcon' (2007-09) and 'WinchesterCon' (founded as a Supernatural fandom event in 2007, and expanded to a panfandom event under the name 'Wincon' in 2010) […]

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:panfandom.