intrafandom

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adjective

Occurring within or part of fandom, especially a single one.

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Meanings

adjectiveintrafandom (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOccurring within or part of fandom, especially a single one.

    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.

    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 Lucy Bennett, Paul Booth, editors, Seeing Fans: Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture, page 60
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    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.

    2011, Katherine Larsen, Lynn Zubernis, Fandom At The Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/Producer Relationships, pages 127–128

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

Origin

From intra- + fandom.

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APA

intrafandom. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intrafandom

MLA

“intrafandom.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intrafandom. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “intrafandom,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intrafandom.

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