2014, "DDQ", quoted in Zakia Jeewa, "Social Network Fandoms & Online Role-Playing: Harry Potter and The Vampire Diaries Fans on Twitter", thesis submitted to the University of KwaZulu-Natal, page 180:
Fan vidding means freedom. It means that my crack ships can happen, they can come to life.
2015, Alexandra Louise Elizabeth Simpson, "Shipping The Margin To The Centre: Excavating Tumblr; Filling In The Self", thesis submitted to Texas A&M University, page 43:
The first convention featured panels including “Quinn Fabray: Pressed Lemon Extraordinaire”, “Polls, Tumblr, and Twitter: Why Faberry Visibility Matters, and Is Fan-Baiting Marginalizing?”, and “The Impact of Faberry: Why is Faberry not just a Crackship?”
2015, Kristen J. Warner, The Cultural Politics of Colorblind TV Casting, unnumbered page:
Moreover, in the more silly venues of fandom, some fans generate "crack ships," or nonsensical couplings, such as sensing chemistry between Bonnie/A Rock.
This fan also categorizes the Swan Queen ship as a "crack ship" or one that is so utterly ridiculous that people ship it solely because it is humorous and ironic to do so.
2016, Juliette Grace Harrisson, "Shipping in Plato's Symposium", Transformative Works and Cultures, Number 21 (2016):
There are certainly ships out there, especially crack ships, that are designed to be transgressive, and to some extent, any slash ship is deviating from what is usually a strongly heteronormative source text.
2016, Kathleen Smith, The Fangirl Life: A Guide to All the Feels and Learning How to Deal, unnumbered page:
We carve out little fiefdoms with the common love of a middle-aged actress, and we march up the gangplank to board our favorite crackship.
2019, "Thefudge", "The Marvelously Crafted", Lemon, 1 February 2019, page 49:
With rarepairs and crackships, it's the unlikeliness or even impossibility of their coming together that gets you going.
2019, Brittany Larsen, "Gatekeeping Remix: Fandom Spaces And Identity Politics", thesis submitted to Illinois State University, page 65:
For one thing, many fans, particularly those who ship rarepairs or crackships (pairings that hold little to no chance of becoming canon, or ones that only a small portion of fandom supports), often express no hope or even interest in their ship becoming canon, instead preferring to just explore different interesting character dynamics.
2016, Bethany A. Scettrini, "Fan Responses to Orphan Black and The 100 via Blogs, Fan Fiction, and Ship Wars", thesis submitted to Baylor University, page 51:
And sometimes it can even be fun to crack-ship or heckle with outlandish pairings, sort of leaning back at an ironic distance, removing oneself from staunch support of any ship through the posing of ships that make others cringe and heave.