anti-fan

plural anti-fans

1. A person who dislikes something (generally a creative work, fictional character, or person), but is still interested in it, devoting time to mocking or criticizing it.

   These anti-fans often claim to act out of concern for young Twilight fans who may look to Twilight's characters— and author— as role models.

   2010, Jessica Sheffield, Elyse Merlo, “Twilight Anti-Fandom and the Rhetoric of Superiorty”, in Melissa A. Click, Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz, editors, Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, & the Vampire Franchise, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 212

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   Jonathan Gray describes these anti-fans by saying, 'Opposed and yet in some ways similar to the fan is the anti-fan: he/she who actively and vocally hates or dislikes a given text, personality, or genre' (2005, 840).

   2013, Mark Duffet, Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture, Bloomsbury Academic, published 2013, →ISBN, page 49

   Such stories are generally considered the work of Harry Potter anti-fans, a group of individuals who actively dislike the books or the films (or both) and seek to degrade the characters in various and sundry ways (Hetcher 7).

   2014, Don Tresca, “Spellbound: An Analysis of Adult-Oriented Harry Potter Fanfiction”, in Kristin M. Barton, Jonathan Malcolm Lampley, editors, Fan CULTure: Essays on Participatory Fandom in the 21st Century, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 40

   Synonyms: lolfan