Anti-fandom
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An anti-fandom is when people focus on a source text for the entertainment value of mocking it. Sometimes anti-fans were never actually fans of the original source text to begin with, but sometimes they were fans who became increasingly disenchanted and finally angered or repelled by canon developments.
Source texts with anti-fandoms include Twilight and the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton. It could be argued that Fandom Wank is an anti-fandom for fandom, in the sense that its members derive their entertainment by mocking other fans or fandoms. However, Fandom Wank members are almost all serious fans as well (ie, a member of F_W may mock the Harry Potter fandom, but still happily be a member of it).
