Who are the most insane, intense stans?

Michael Jackson fans.

The Beyhive. I don't know who I hate more: them, or the overrated bitch they worship.

Bernie

Whom do they serve?

Saruman.

Bernie stans are not as bad as KHive. Sorry.

I loved the Hannibal TV series, but some of the stans seem over the top, especially the ones who worship Mads. I went a tumblr page and they were furious at Bryan Fuller over some minor point on the show.

A few years ago the Angelina Jolie stans and Benedict cumberbatch stans were pretty deranged. I'm not sure if they still are. I have nothing against either performer but some of their fans were really fucked in the head judging by comments on gossip sites.

Taylor Swift fans.

K-POP

Beyhive. Total stupidity.

MAGATS and QAnons, hands down.

K-Pop

Beyonce

Harry Styles

Taylor Swift

That guy on here who keeps pushing that "Bash" kid.

The worst I've ever seen were the Ponyprancers, especially when they thought Dominic and Elijah were sending them color-coded messages through their clothing choices.

I win.

One Direction stands were the most hilariously vicious. Remember the video of the two old men reading stan comments about them?

Any fans of the mediocre Tik Tok shit

Anime fans, and I like anime, or I once did. They are terrifying.

Soap fans take the cake for crazy

Angelina Jolie stans on twitter who follows Brad’s every move and post how bad he is.

BTS fans are all insane and brainwashed.

[quote] The worst I've ever seen were the Ponyprancers, especially when they thought Dominic and Elijah were sending them color-coded messages through their clothing choices.

Blue and yellow wear them fine fellows!

What messages were they supposed to be sending? "It's Wednesday, today is when Pippin tops?"

Michael Jackson fans the ultimate nadir of humanity. They send death threats to his accusers and even sent death threats to his dermatologist for saying that Michael was gay (not a gay pedophile, just gay)

The Supernatural obsessives.

Swifties, they are incessant.

Any group that sends out death threats. (see: MAGAts, Michael Jackson stans, Harkle stans)

Lady Gaga fans (The "Little Monsters"). Basically the trump base of pop music. Along with the 'Beyhive' and Taylor Swift stans.

Trump/MAGA/Qanon base

K-Pop stans

Britneys fans are right about some things ( the conservatorship was questionable, the paparazzi and media were truly disgusting towards her, etc) . But the animosity some of them have towards Jamielynn is insane. What was some uneducated hillbilly teen already raising her own kid supposed to do about Britneys situation? She had no more power ( or intellect) than her sibling. I've noticed that a large segment of the you go gurl /girls rock/ we have no choice but to Stan our queen types tend to be the most eager to scapegoat and attack the women whom they don't idolize.

Figure skating

Penn State football fans

Essential oil fraus

Crossfitters

Disney obsessed

What does Stan mean?

R33 I still can't get over how dramatically different Short Haired Early 60s Stan looked to Late 60s Bearded Long Hair Stan.

Rumor has it that Benedict Cumberbatch hasn't done any more Sherlock because of the insane batshit fans. These crazies were following him around London and showing up at his house, the police had to get involved on several occasions. He was seriously spooked and concerned not only for his own safety but also that of his wife and children.

Oh, and he also fucking hates Martin Freeman.

Michael Jackson stans, especially those deny the fact that weirdo was pedophile

Beyoncé stans. She has been irrelevant for almost 5 years now so I hope her stand finally realize that she’s hugely overrated

Mariah stans most of whom refuse to grow up and always deny the fact that she’s just another studio singer who lip syncs and has zero stage presence. She’s no Whitney or Celine

BTS. If you don't think that's true, you've never known anyone in the throes of that particular obsession.

Wacko fans for sure, no one can be so gullible, " he was not a pedo, just an adult man who liked to be surrounded by little boys" or "he never had a surgery or bleached his skin, that's a skin condition called vitiligo!!!". Sure Jan.

What's BTS?

Anyone in this day and age who doesn't think Michael Jackson was a kiddie diddler is just beyond hope. Of course he was.

Michael Jackson was a textbook example of a pedophile, he had all the characteristics and proclivities of one. Just on a very grand scale. His patterns were the same as other textbook pedophiles.

[quote] he had all the characteristics and proclivities of one. Just on a very grand scale. His patterns were the same as other textbook pedophiles.

Did he throw pool parties?

[quote] Essential oil fraus

This made me laugh.

BTS Stans are a massive cult. It’s kind of horrifying. I genuinely like a lot of their music, but their zombie fan base is a huge turn off.

R39 If they accept he is pedo it ruins all their childhood memories of his music and their worship of him as a hero. So they remain in denial. Its obvious thats whats going on there.

Donald Trump stans.

There's a weird anti-stan that posts on DL about some former boy-band loser (whose name is unfamiliar to me) and his clique of friends. This person appears to be pretending to be two people who converse at length about how fat the boy band person and his friends are. They always start the thread and then thank themselves for starting it. It's a bit disturbing, like watching someone slap themselves and mutter curses as they shamble down the street.

There is also a rabid creature that will interpret any negative reference to Johnny Depp as somehow being planted by Amber Heard or a close associate/admirer of hers. The concept that someone can think they're both gross seems to be impossible to convey to this thing.

The Rocco Ritchie stan is a bit off-putting, if only because Rocco Ritchie seems like such a non-entity. It's like having the hots for Sesame Street's Grover.

Out in the wider world, I've noticed that the RDJ stans are very fetishistic. They go into raptures about how "tiny" he is. I mean, I like him too and I don't mind a pocket-sized guy myself, but they take it to very strange extremes.

Actually, any white dude in the Marvel Universe has about 4,000 semi-porno drawings of a cartoon version of himself in deep gay love with the rest of them. I guess it makes sense that a comic book world attracts people who make comic book art. It just seems strange that nearly all of it is gay-oriented.

I have never delved into it, but circumstantial evidence suggests that the world of online make-up tutorials is a pit of ultimate evil.

[quote]This person appears to be pretending to be two people who converse at length about how fat the boy band person and his friends are. They always start the thread and then thank themselves for starting it.

The troll who's always calling everyone "ancient white fags" does that too. He has multiple accounts and is always talking to himself.

I have the sneaking suspicion they are one and the same, R48.

A lot of the social media fan groups have been overwhelmed by people who aren't actually stans but are using the cover of being a stan to be abusive.

Taylor Swift fans were already a handful, but groypers and similar types showed up a couple of years ago and started posing as stans, so you'd get scenarios where someone would post something mostly benign about Swift, and they'd get overwhelmed with nasty tweets from stans PLUS death threats and racist slurs from the others.

Johnny Depp stans on Twitter are frequently old accounts that are also Michael Jackson stans. It's very weird and looks like it's actually a bunch of bot accounts owned by a company that first used them for paid MJ trolling, then used for JD, and now seem to have gone full far-right MRA conspiracy theorist. If they show up in your replies, expect "we'll take care of you, we know where you live" comments paired with gifs with guns.

Bizarre, R50.

There's some crossover between Depp and RDJ stans on Twitter as well, but they seem more benign. More like "deranged cat lady with multiple restraining orders" types.

The stan thing really concerns me. I cannot fathom how people can become so obsessed and emotional over some celebrity. I couldn't even bring myself to be that way about someone I know personally. It's just bizarre. And there are so many stans out there! People like this have always been around, of course, but the internet and social media have made them even more batshit insane.

Remember Tori Amos stans from the 90's?

See r11. CASE CLOSED!!!

FGS, these Yahoos HAVE SLAIN CAPITOL POLICE! Have KILLED THEMSELVES by not getting vaccinated!

Are NEO-NAZIS who wave the CONFEDERATE FLAG while calling themselves PATRIOTS!!

It really doesn't get any more ignorant, fanatical, criminal, treasonous, and dangerous than this.

R54 is right. No one else has stans that kill others or themselves or suffer from the type of mass delusion like MAGAts and QAnon.

Klan grannies.

Are MAGAts really "stans", though? They are encouraged by Trump himself.

"Stans" to me are always people the celebrity is unaware of - or, if aware of, somewhat nonplussed/bemused/unnerved by.

[quote]Remember Tori Amos stans from the 90's?

The '90s? We have at least one now on DL. Undoubtedly he will respond. He never misses an opportunity to kvell over her.

The QAnon/Pizzagate freaks are the absolute worst

The BTS fans are the most intense, and insane. Even the most innocent comment will be twisted into the equivalent of the attack on Peal Harbor if you're not careful. Next thing you know a long range bomber with Jungkook's head painted on it, is headed to your IP address to take you out.

R57, This article so posits, calling them "American standom's great success."

R50, who else are stan bots?

Taylor Swift

I've noticed young women are especially susceptible to becoming part of these intense fanbases and it will take over their lives like a cult. But often they do grow out of it especially when they get a real relationship and career. Most intense pop stans are still young women, straight and lesbian. Annoying gay queens are really just a vocal minority. I guess my theory is since young girls feel a lack of control in their lives, obsession over a famous celebrity gives them a sense of control. A lot of women are far religious and into astrology than men are for similar reasons

R57 MAGAts are more akin to obnoxious sports fans. For them, It's about tribalism and screwing over the opposite side at the expense of their benefit. It's purely driven out of spite and revenge. It's not like stans who are often naive young girls or emotionally immature older women who are intensely infatuated with a male celebrity or live vicariously through an attractive female one.

FFS this is about celebrity stans. Leave your Trump obsession for another thread. Jesus we can't have a single topic you can't fill up with your Trump shit.

Uh, Trump IS a celebrity

Supernatural - they're insane

R66 I mean Trump was a celebrity for decades and had his own reality show. He always had obnoxious male stans just like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. So how does he not count ?

Lord of the Rings (the Prancing Pony gang)

Anyone remember the fangirls of New Kids on the Block?

They were pretty scary.

But as mentioned above, it's usually a phase that young girls grow out of rapidly.

Yes. The Beatles, Rudolph Valentino, James Dean, Ricky Nelson and Elvis Presley had insane fangirls who would faint at their sight and they would stalk them too. Valentino and Dean's early demises led to a mass suicide.

Franz Liszt, Lord Byron and Roman gladiators, etc all had insane fandoms too. So it goes back farther than film and TV.

Way before BTS became popular and introduced Kpop to a far broader audience. I knew some Kpop stans and they were always obsessive, intense and seemed mentally ill inn their delusions. I thought Kpop would never get bigger than a niche but somehow BTS blew up and got on American mainstream radio. Now most of the West is aware of the insanity of Kpop stanbases. It's not just young girls, older women are hooked too. Some men are obsessed with it but their obsession is more on the waifish Asian babes.

Rudolph Valentino fans own this thread and retired the turban with their suicides following his death.

Still, the trumpers might out-crazy them all eventually. Pass the kool aid.

Can we have one motherfucking thread without Trump, MAGA or Deplorables? I swear you obsessives could insert those topics in a thread about Peruvian basket weaving.

R64, I’ve seen young gays who are obsessed with female artists, they are in the music forums going crazy about their favs chart positions and having stan wars with other female artists stans on social media.

The Little Monsters

Mariah's Lambs

Stan comes from Eminem's song "Stan" where a fan kills his girlfriend and himself because he is obsessed with Eminem. It just means crazy fans.

I don't know how fugly Jeremy Renner merited so many crazy frau stalkers, but they used to post his address on threads here and harassed his female friends on Twitter.

The Megaloons own this thread.

R76 Yeah. But celebrity worship syndrome mostly affects young girls who make up majority of the fanbases. Those gays that are obsessed with them are feminine-aligned thus live vicariously through their divas. Masculine gay men have no interest in stanning female divas.

Off topic, but I was really surprised that the DL consensus is that Jeremy Renner is ugly. I think he has a tight little body and beautiful eyes; he's not conventionally good-looking, sure, but there's a boyish/rugged quality to him I find very appealing. I liked him as Hawkeye in the Marvel films and though he was quite moving in Endgame.

Scientologists.

Tom Hiddleston/Loki

Not saying they're worse than Wacko Jacko fans or anything, but they're pretty fucking deranged for a group that worships a small, rodent-like Englishman.

Masculine men get into sports when they stan, and they can be just as obsessive as any Taylor Swift fan.

Don't pretend this is a female thing. Go to some man caves filled with every kind of fan gear one could purchase with a fat, dumb, balding former high school football player sitting in the middle of it wearing his team's clothes from his socks to his hat and showing off his multiple team tattoos. Or, check a car guy's garage. Or a gamer's room in his mom's basement. Or, any of the male stalker's walls filled with pictures of his latest obsession.

They obsess over different things but men are just as likely to be obsessively crazed with their interests.

The “War-dicks”, Dionne’s insane army

R86 is right, and take a brief veer into comics, science fiction and fantasy, car racing (or antique or muscle cars), jazz or art films to meet the 100% heterosexual male stan in all his deranged glory.

Check out “I think we’re alone now” a documentary on two insane Tiffany fans

Sports is more of a communal and historical thing I feel. It's like religious indoctrination as you are often raised to support the team of your school, home state or city. Also given the fact sports is supported by local communities and children are encouraged to participate from a young age. It's also a huge industry, young men often can education from sports scholarships and money from getting into professional sports. It's goes more like religion or nationalism than stanning. Sports games are like wars.

R88 It makes way more sense and far more healthier to be obsessed with a hobby like watching movie, reading books, collecting cars, video games, appreciating art and literature to me than being psychotically obsessed with and defensive of a celebrity you'll never meet.

Joe Rogan

R91, the people I am speaking of are obsessed with specific artists, designers, writers and race car drivers, just the way the pop-group/film star girls are.

It isn't any less disturbing or reasonable and it makes criticism and discussion of those things increasingly difficult.

Science fiction fandom, for one, has been notably toxic for decades.

R82, it's good that Jeremy has you in his corner, because he looks like a pug coated in past-date bologna to a lot of us.

R84, Hiddleston isn't small- he's over 6ft tall. I agree that he's rodent-like, though.

[quote]Can we have one motherfucking thread without Trump, MAGA or Deplorables? I swear you obsessives could insert those topics in a thread about Peruvian basket weaving.

Who pissed on your snow bank, Little Snowflake R75 -- I doubt your name appears on any of our DL subscription statements. Get your own forum and make your own rules.

r95 you obsessive Trump haters constantly insert Trump, MAGA and Deplorables in threads that have nothing to do with them. It's insane. I hate Trump as much as anyone but FFS you don't have to try and turn the topic to him every damn time in every damn thread. BTW he's not president anymore. Get a fucking life.

I've never understood Renner or Hiddleston's popularity. They're fugly and very boring, uninspired actors and personalities.

The Trump stans. They have just lowered society as a whole.

The Britney Stans are not so much insane, just overly intense that it makes them scary.

Ammosexuals.

Cult of personality around Reagan was very disturbing too and enabled Trump's rise to power over 20 years later.

The stans right here on DL who are obsessed with B Listers like whatsisname from the Bodyguard show and the Heugen guy, who I have never heard of outside DL.

The fucking Froy stans too. Never heard of that twink until I saw the million of DL threads on him.

What's up with young men and Jordan Peterson? Seems like toxic stanning to me. Or a cult like that guy that had his followers drink the Koolaid.

What about those middle age women who still go to their fave boyband 30 year anniversary concert or their 16th year attending their boyband cruise?

Here is the cruise I’m talking about…….

R103 - Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan and Elon Musk, a Venn diagram of incels.

There's a woman on youtube who talks about crap childhoods causing people, especially girls, to devolve into a fantasy world in order to protect themselves - from whatever, family trauma, bullying, abuse - and then it becomes a lifelong habit, and they don't develop the skills to deal with adulthood so they just stay in fantasy, often a "fandom" - they find likeminded people and it makes it less likely they'll wake up out of the weird way of life they developed when they needed it to survive. The romantic obsessions are called "limerance" - link to a video about it

[quote]Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan and Elon Musk, a Venn diagram of incels.

Very concise.

* I misspelled it - it's "limerence"

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry stans. Two people who do absolutely nothing celebrity wise and their fans act like they are truly King and Queen of something.

R93 wtf are you talking about, that doc is exactly in line with this thread topic

Evangelical Christians

Sam Heughan/Outlander fans are fucking C R A Z Y. That fandom stands alone.

Oh well, wrong thread, but you get my point.

I have never heard of this Sam Heughan guy outside DL, but the stan threads here are fucking nuts.

[quote]There's a woman on youtube

Well, if there's someone on YouTube who says it.

I have trouble with mustard stains............especially on white shirts..........bleach stains on colored clothes is also a "no go," as they are ruined forever..........

Ooh, look at triggered r96!

The Sam Heughan and Outlander twats are crazy

[quote] What does Stan mean?

Hi, it's me.................

[quote] I've noticed young women are especially susceptible to becoming part of these intense fanbases

It’s safe for them. They can act out their sexual frustration in masturbatory fanfic and not get pregnant. Men like to look at images and videos of people having full on sex. Females prefer romantic fantasy with lots of hugging & kissing and a little bit of rubbing. They’re not turned on by a lot of sweaty pounding. It’s just the way things are. Women prefer romantic fantasy, men prefer the old in-out, in-out.

Stan wrote a song about it wanna hear it here it go

R84 - Rodent-like is a fair point, although I think an attractive rodent. . . but hardly small.

He's 6'2" and notoriously rather well-endowed where it counts.

When he had his curly hair he was quite toothsome.

Now, of course, he's forty and looks more like the don all the freshers fall in love with.

Cumberbatch's early coven of stans were easily as mental as Hiddleston's Dragonflies.

They're still at it. They still think his wife has a criminal past as a people trafficker, that their two kids are props, and that she blackmailed a CoE vicar to perform an illegal marriage as well as the obstetric staff of the Portland Hospital.

In other words, they still can't accept the fact that he actually fucked her.

Cumberbatch had the most insane stans during the Sherlock years, I kind of felt sorry for him.

There was a collective Timotay Stan psychosis beginning in 2017 and lasting throughout 2018 here on DL.

At one point in early 2018, threads were filling up every two days. Threads close at 600, so that was fan insanity at a fever pitch.

There were at least 50 of them by the beginning of 2019 with new ones (different subjects) being started almost every day until Muriel started paywalling and/or deleting them. The vast majority of the posts were from females ranging in age from their early teens to mid-forties. Crazy cunt hordes who were occupying a huge corner of DL at the time.

There was no such thing as a rational discussion with any of them.

That rat-faced little Chalamet fucker is so uninteresting, his fandom really perplexes me.

[QUOTE] Crazy cunt hordes

Do you mind if I borrow that phrase?

BTS stans are absolutely the worst. luckily they identify themselves with a 7 on Twitter, so it's easy to block them on sight. I've blocked hundreds of them at this point

Taylor Swift and Elon Musk stans are good picks and are probably the next worse. KHive and BeyHive are also pretty annoying I guess.

[Quote] Actually, any white dude in the Marvel Universe has about 4,000 semi-porno drawings of a cartoon version of himself in deep gay love with the rest of them. I guess it makes sense that a comic book world attracts people who make comic book art. It just seems strange that nearly all of it is gay-oriented.

That's not just a Marvel thing. Never heard of Rule 34?

[quote] The fucking Froy stans too. Never heard of that twink until I saw the million of DL threads on him.

R102 On the flip side, don't underestimate the Richard Madden stans. Most of the hubbub around Froy actually comes from them first.

Thread closed.

The "Cumberbitches" were the worst pop culture fandom of recent years, as I don't count the Trump loons as a fandom, that's too mild a word for traitors.

But the Cumberbitches were on another level of crazy, as the TV Sherlock was a "high functioning sociopath" and attractive but seemingly asexual, and that led every aneurotypical, asexual, personality disordered, batshit crazy, or just fucked-up bitch with a computer to completely lose touch with reality. I've never seen so many crazy people together outside of a psych ward, they were (are?) one of these internet groups that have formed the kind of batshit echo chamber that generates conspiracy theories and true believers, and sure enough! They came up with their very own conspiracy theories about Mrs. C.

I loved the Sherlock show (or certain episodes, anyway) and thought Cumberbatch and Freeman were both great in it, but they did seem to be catnip for freaks.

Shelley Hack-ers.

Cumberbatch himself was terrified of the Cumberbitches.

R136 I think most actors are to a degree. No amount of money in the world would make up for having those types of fans.

[quote]The fucking Froy stans too. Never heard of that twink until I saw the million of DL threads on him.

Froy is DL's golden twink.

His sweet hole keeps DL eldergays hooked.

What I find interesting is it is clear that both men and women are objectified especially famous celebrities since they are marketed and promoted as sex symbols and ideal partners. Though the only talk is of men objectifying women which is certainly an issue and very much true. But little talk is of how women objectify famous men and other women as well and as women are becoming more affluent and influential in the media, we are seeing more and more of it.

I think the problem with objectification of women is that historically it's been seen as the only value women have - as objects, either to desire or to possess.

Men have never been limited. Yeah, they can be objectified but it doesn't limit them as much - and they have all avenues open to them and always have - scholars, entrepreneurs, attorneys, artisans, politicians, you name it, the world's their oyster.

For millenia, for the vast majority of women, it was be objectified, be wives and mothers, or whores. End of. With very few exceptions - and then, only the rich daughters of rich men, who might write books or own property in their own right.

R140 Yes. Men in power controlled the narrative and women were reduced to being valued only for their beauty, sex appeal and ability to mother. Even in Ancient Greece and Rome where the male body was considered beautiful and sexually objectified, men were considered more intelligent and disciplined capable of true love and kindness. Women were seen as animalistic, hysterical, always angry and actually more lustful and vengeful. So while men and women were both viewed as beautiful, men were valued more for their ability to provide, protect and rule while the only value women were given was being a sex object or mother, basically property.

I think due to the industrial revolution and rise of disposable income among working class women who went out to the movies and music halls. The media industries saw a market push handsome young actors and singers to young women. Even more so in the 1940s and 1950s with the rise of teen idols like James Dean, Frank Sinatra, Ricky Nelson and Elvis Presley and the newly formed teenager identity. Since girls were taught to repress their sexuality, these images of handsome men and forming a fanatic obsession was their outlet. Even today, we still see this with boy bands and Kpop. Those teen magazines with suggestive pinups of the young male celebs and intimate details about their lives. These young guys are sexualized and objectified for profit. And you can see that in fanfiction and fanart too.

Even older women are indulging in stuff like 50 Shades of Grey, Magic Mike and other male eye candy. I think now as women are catching up to men in financial and social power. We will see more male objectification. I see a lot of younger guys are more vain and prettying themselves now. Being more fashion-conscious, taking suggestive poses, taking good care of their hair and skin and obsessively working out. So younger men are putting more value in their looks in hopes of impressing young women while historically that pressure was mostly on the young woman.

There's also more of a danger component present in men who obsess over women. Or, even men who obsess over other men. They're the ones that show up with guns and shoot their obsessions so no one else can have them, like Rebecca Shaeffer.

Cumberbitches vs Pine nuts.

also, ketchup on white or yellow shirts is almost not able to be removed.......

I was about to type that there's absolutely no competition for Michael Jackson's stans in the insanity stakes... and then I remembered Trump's. I'd say they're about equal.

Definitely the Beyhive. One of them tweeted Jennifer Hudson that she was mad that Beyoncé’s nephew was alive and hers wasn’t. Talk about classless.

Trump’s stans are truly weird. He doesn’t even like half of them and left many of them on the side of road.

R147, I still laugh when I remember that rally he had in Nebraska or somewhere where he just left all these old people out in the middle of nowhere. They had to call in rescue teams.

Beyhive is so annoying. Beyonce is talented but nothing special and certainly not worthy of worship. She's always been overrated and overexposed. It seemed random as hell, she got this massive fanbase on Twitter. They first got attention back in 2010 for attacking Keri Hilson in public after she dissed Beyonce.

His name rhymes with "snarlie," and he won't let you say a single thing that's even [italic]neutral[/italic ] about Barbra Streisand without throwing a complete hissy fit.

"What I find interesting is it is clear that both men and women are objectified especially famous celebrities since they are marketed and promoted as sex symbols and ideal partners. "

I've put in enough fandom hours to have the opinion that straight women objectify their male idols in a different way than straight men objectify women. Straight men tend to think of attractive women as in terms of sex only, while straight women project *all* of their feelings onto the attractive man they're fangurling. They use him to live out their fantasy of true romance, success, beauty, or sex appeal, they exaggerate any feminine characteristics and basically turn him into a woman and "slash" him with a butcher attractive celebrity, they dig into his private life and try to imagine his thoughts and crucial points in his life.

The last is a lot creepier and more intrusive than just wanting to fuck someone, particularly when they begin to fight with each other over whose fantasy projection or intrusion into someone's private life is the True Fandom Vision. If the celebrities ever read this crap, they'll all live in Idaho bunkers.

r148 That was the 2nd district (Omaha). He did that a week before the election, and they all just wrote it off as a "planning error". He lost it to Biden more than he had won it over Clinton in 2016.

[quote] I've put in enough fandom hours to have the opinion that straight women objectify their male idols in a different way than straight men objectify women. Straight men tend to think of attractive women as in terms of sex only, while straight women project *all* of their feelings onto the attractive man they're fangurling. They use him to live out their fantasy of true romance, success, beauty, or sex appeal, they exaggerate any feminine characteristics and basically turn him into a woman and "slash" him with a butcher attractive celebrity, they dig into his private life and try to imagine his thoughts and crucial points in his life.

The last is a lot creepier and more intrusive than just wanting to fuck someone, particularly when they begin to fight with each other over whose fantasy projection or intrusion into someone's private life is the True Fandom Vision. If the celebrities ever read this crap, they'll all live in Idaho bunkers.

R151 This is the perfect description of the Richard Madden/Froy fans (particularly the Madden fans, especially on tumblr) who not only live vicariously through their relationship, but act like they literally know everything that's going on, and how dare you ever question their expertise.

R153 every fandom is like that on tumblr. I remember someone asking a gossip blog if two actors were dating and someone sent in a whole paragraph being condescending to this person. How dare they not know every detail of this actor's life and how they must be trying to start drama.

Larries. They even invaded Datalounge.

Klan Grannies aka BRF stans.

Miley. I think Billy Ray did bad things to her.

Another song about a stan:

The most reviled celeb, Trump.

I win. We have some nice parting gifts for you.

Jesus, who probably didn't exist, and certainly didn't do what his stans think he did.

A lot of religions start out of fandoms of alleged prophets (Buddhism, Taoism, Sikhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam) who may or may not have existed. And once they expand outside of a narrow group. They develop into complex systems that dominate public life. Shifting from a cult to being public rituals and ideology and even coopted by the state as a national religion.

Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato and Camila Cabello.

Hiddleston's. They have even set a date and are planning his wedding, and he hasn't even acknowledged a relationship yet. God help you if you deny them their fantasy though as you will instantly be branded racist. Crazy people!

Senator Chris Murphy’s DL Fan Club!

The frauen who obsessively monitor Ben Barnes, Jon Hamm and Chris Evans deserve to be mentioned. The Chris Evans Relationship Theories threads on Lipstick Alley even managed to generate mainstream media attention. Those people sit on the internet and stalk his life and his friends' social media accounts.

First place: The Paks. What's a Pak anyway? I don't know, but they're a mess!

Second place: Krygyzstan. Get some vowels, Krygystan!