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lolfan en · NOUN

Etymology

From lol + fan.

Meanings

  1. (slang) A fan whose appreciation of something (generally a book, movie, or television show) is mainly ironic.
    • Lurking on the periphery of the Twilight fandom are the lolfans. 2010, Liv Spencer, Love Bites: The Unofficial Saga of Twilight, pages 192 and 194:
    • Macros and other explicitly humorous productions form a major part of the site, with ‘lolfans’ (the term Klink uses for people who read the books solely for the purpose of snarking on them) contributing many of the texts. 2013 December, Sarah Harman, Bethan Jones, “Fifty Shades of Ghey: fandom and the figure of the anti-fan”, in Sexualities, volume 16, number 8, page 957:
    • Typically, this participatory practice is associated with 'lolfans': those who engage with a media product with the purpose of mocking it in forms of satirical humour (Klink, 2010, p. 23). 2018, Ruth Page, Narratives Online: Shared Stories in Social Media, page 156:

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Synonyms

anti-fan

Translations (1)

cmn 樂子粉 /乐子粉 (Translations)