lolfan

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English

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Etymology

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From lol +‎ fan.

Noun

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lolfan (plural lolfans)

  1. (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.

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