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subfandom en · NOUN

Etymology

From sub- + fandom.

Meanings

1. A subdivision of a larger fandom or fan community.
   • Filker Mark Blackman (Personal Interview, 1989) predicts that as filking becomes more widespread, it may subdivide into more specialized subfandoms […] 1992, Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers: Television, Fans, & Participatory Culture, pages 259–260:
   • A subfandom for her own work has grown within the media-SF communities. 1992, Camille Bacon-Smith, Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth, page 39:
   • By the mid-1960s, these fanzines, representing subfandoms to general science-fiction fandom, gained as never before. 1981, David Cowart, Thomas L. Wymer, editors, Twentieth-Century American Science-Fiction Writers, page 292:

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