Baby's First Fandom

Synonyms:	Threshold Fandom
See also:	neofan, newbie, babyfan, feral
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Baby's First Fandom refers to the fandom that introduced someone to the community of fans and fanworks.

Sometimes the term will be used in a response to someone's surprise over fandom behaviours, both in terms of fan activities or toxic fandom behaviour.

Fan Usage Examples and Commentary

Quotes

“I’m so excited for the ‘canon versus fanon’ arguments to stop once we have the full show, it will be so much more peaceful once we know” beloathed I hate to be the one to tell you this but: as both an ST and FFVII fan, I would have you know that nearly three decades with the whole mf game + a million clear canonical expansions has not stopped anyone from bitching having full on ship / character interpretation wars #I won’t even pretend ST is gonna have the power of final fantasy 7 in the long run (sorry) but #comments like these always confirm it’s ‘baby’s first fandom’ for a lot of yall LMAO

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Discussions

• Discussion at r/AO3, 'What was your "baby's first fandom"?' (2 December 2023), ^{Archived version}