Citations:anon meme
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Noun: "(fandom slang) an online space (typically a LiveJournal or Dreamwidth community) used for anonymous fannish discussion"
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- 2012, Katherine Larsen & Lyn Zubernis, Fandom at the Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/producer Relationships, page 120:
- For the past several years, the anon meme weighed in on each and every one, replacing the norms of the broader fanfic community about constructive feedback with sometimes brutal attacks on the writing, the art–and the fan writers themselves.
- 2013, Alexis Lothian, "Archival Anarchies: Online Fandom, Subcultural Conservation, and the Transformative Work of Digital Ephemera", International Journal of Cultural Studies, Volume 16, Issue 6 (2013):
- In recent years, much fan fiction and debate has been posted anonymously, without the connections to personal archives that well-established pseudonyms contain, on ‘anon memes’ where fans disengage from the persistent pseudonyms whose legitimacy Coppa so eloquently defended to Google.
- 2014, Joseph Brennan, "'Fandom is full of pearlclutching old ladies' : Nonnies in the online slash closet", Volume 17, Issue 4 (2014):
- LJ’s spnanonhaven is an anon meme community where fans comment anonymously on posts related to all aspects of Supernatural fandom.
- 2016, Kristina Busse, "Beyond Mary Sue: Fan Representation and the Complex Negotiation of Gendered Identity", in Seeing Fans: Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture (eds. Lucy Bennett & Paul Booth), page 166:
- The fact that the story was created as a Work in Progress on an anon meme increased the sense of parallelism between fans within and without the story.
- 2017, Melanie Brooke Piper, "Docucharacters: Public Persona as Character in Film, Television, and Fandom", thesis submitted to the University of Queensland, page 75:
- To demonstrate the divisive nature of RPF in fan spaces, I offer an October 2012 thread from the anonymous LiveJournal community (or anonmeme) Fail_Fandomanon (FFA) as an example.
- 2018, Kristina Busse, "Afterword: Fannish Affect and Its Aftermath", in Everybody Hurts: Transitions, Endings, and Resurrections in Fan Cultures (ed. Rebecca Williams), page 217:
- On the anon meme failfandom_anon many fans describe how they have left their fandom or, at least, have stopped reading and engaging on Tumblr because of the highly aggressive atmosphere.