lolfan
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]lolfan (plural lolfans)
- (fandom slang) A fan whose appreciation of something (generally a book, movie, or television show) is mainly ironic.
- 2010, Liv Spencer, Love Bites: The Unofficial Saga of Twilight, pages 192 and 194:
- Lurking on the periphery of the Twilight fandom are the lolfans.
- 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:
- 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.
- 2018, Ruth Page, Narratives Online: Shared Stories in Social Media, page 156:
- 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).
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:lolfan.