Oxford Dictionary Fangirl : (noun informal) a female fan, especially one who is obsessive about comics, film, music or science fiction.
Urban Dictionary Fangirl : a female fan, obsessed with something (or someone) to a frightening or sickening degree. Often considered ditzy, annoying and shallow.
Urban Dictionary Fangirl : a female fan, obsessed with something (or someone) to a frightening or sickening degree. Often considered ditzy, annoying and shallow.
Fangirl. A term used commonly in modern day. It started off as a perfectly innocent term to describe someone (often female) who is a fan of something. The word "fangirl" has a whole new meaning now. When someone says "fangirl" people automatically think screaming, annoying, over-obsessed girls who would kill to see their idols. Which is fair enough as the videos and pictures shown are of that exactly, but what people fail to realise is that is only a small minority of the "fangirls" in the world.
Fandom is another word where the definition has got lost in a sea of stereotypes. Fandom means someone who likes someone's music/film/etc., a fan if you will. Recently, it has become a much more dramatic term and anyone in a "fandom" is expected by the other "fans" to be totally obsessed, and i mean really obsessed. They are expected to know everything, buy everything, do certain things because, if they don't, then apparently they are "fake fans".
Who decided that someone else has the right to call someone a "fake fan". So what if they didn't buy the album on release day? Maybe they didn't have the money or their car broke down, or they had actual important life stuff to do on that day. They didn't know that their idol had split up with their partner, and what? Maybe they don't have a twitter (this seems to be where most of the gossip originates) or they have such a busy schedule that they don't have time to spend every waking moment tracking the whereabouts and actions of some random celebrity.
It's because of this that the fans have become so disconnected. Before, it felt more like a community, a family (if you'll pardon the cheesy-ness) , the celebrity in question knew what was going on with the fans , sometimes if you were lucky you could even have a conversation with them with e-mail or twitter or tumblr or any other form of communication. Long gone are the days when you were practically guaranteed to meet your idol at the stage door after an event. Management and celebrities alike, have taken to lying to their fans in order to leave a venue without a fuss. Running out of a different door, saying they've already gone to try and reduce the number of people etc. I mean, are you really that important and busy that you can't spend a few seconds taking a picture with a fan? That picture could mean the absolute world to them and you're lying to try and avoid them? Get a grip.
As my blog description states, I would consider myself a fangirl because I am a dedicated fan of some music artists and enjoy going to events etc. I just hate how we (as a whole) are defined in the modern day. The word "fangirl" is feared and causes people to pass judgement on you before they've even met you. We get called stalkers, psychos, creeps, you name it!
I know this is by far not even close to a big issue in today's world and I respect the fact that this may sound incredibly petty and not worth reading. I've just been thinking so much about this recently and figured I might as well write it down and vent my grievances to the world (small minority that actually read the codswallop i write).
I guess I just resent the way people like me are just disregarded and thrown aside simply because of the music I like and the life I choose to live.
I can't be the only one, right?
Who decided that someone else has the right to call someone a "fake fan". So what if they didn't buy the album on release day? Maybe they didn't have the money or their car broke down, or they had actual important life stuff to do on that day. They didn't know that their idol had split up with their partner, and what? Maybe they don't have a twitter (this seems to be where most of the gossip originates) or they have such a busy schedule that they don't have time to spend every waking moment tracking the whereabouts and actions of some random celebrity.
It's because of this that the fans have become so disconnected. Before, it felt more like a community, a family (if you'll pardon the cheesy-ness) , the celebrity in question knew what was going on with the fans , sometimes if you were lucky you could even have a conversation with them with e-mail or twitter or tumblr or any other form of communication. Long gone are the days when you were practically guaranteed to meet your idol at the stage door after an event. Management and celebrities alike, have taken to lying to their fans in order to leave a venue without a fuss. Running out of a different door, saying they've already gone to try and reduce the number of people etc. I mean, are you really that important and busy that you can't spend a few seconds taking a picture with a fan? That picture could mean the absolute world to them and you're lying to try and avoid them? Get a grip.
As my blog description states, I would consider myself a fangirl because I am a dedicated fan of some music artists and enjoy going to events etc. I just hate how we (as a whole) are defined in the modern day. The word "fangirl" is feared and causes people to pass judgement on you before they've even met you. We get called stalkers, psychos, creeps, you name it!
I know this is by far not even close to a big issue in today's world and I respect the fact that this may sound incredibly petty and not worth reading. I've just been thinking so much about this recently and figured I might as well write it down and vent my grievances to the world (small minority that actually read the codswallop i write).
I guess I just resent the way people like me are just disregarded and thrown aside simply because of the music I like and the life I choose to live.
I can't be the only one, right?
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