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. Though their feelings toward the books range from dedicated love to impassioned enmity, a lolfan's primary reason for reading the Twilight series and watching the films is the amusement they derive from them.
2012, Sarah Wagenseller Goletz, "The Giddyshame Paradox: Why 'Twilight' Anti-Fans Cannot Stop Reading a Series They (Love to) Hate", in Genre, Reception, and Adaptation in the Twilight Series (ed. Anne Morey), unnumbered page:
It is this "giddyshame" that has helped the series to produces a strange phenomenon: a dual audience, equally fanatical on both ends, consisting of those who unabashedly love the books, dubbed "Twihards," and those who hate loving/love hating the books, dubbed "Lolfans" (Laugh-Out-Loud-Fans").
2013, Sarah Harman & Bethan Jones, "Fifty Shades of Ghey: fandom and the figure of the anti-fan", Sexualities, Volume 16, Number 8, December 2013, 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.
2017, Ashley J. Barner, The Case for Fanfiction: Exploring the Pleasures and Practices of a Maligned Craft, page 102:
"I'm kinda generalising here, but one thing I have noticed is that Twihaters or lolfans [people who enjoy Twilight because they enjoy making fun of it] are usually smarter than the average fangirl, who has trouble stringing together a sentence. […]
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).
Initially, the site collected lolcats from other Web sites. Now lolfans email hundreds of captioned photos each day, creating a backlog of 5,000 submissions.