CP Fan
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| Synonyms: | shipper, couple fan, CP粉, CPF |
| See also: | solo fan, Coupling |
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A cp fan is a fan of a couple. The term is used in Chinese-speaking fandoms, where CP fans are differentiated from fans who don't engage in shipping. CP fans are often at odds with "solo" fans who love only one celebrity (chunfen).[1][2]
"CP fan" and "CPF" have been adopted by some English-speaking fans of Chinese media.
The abbreviation CP originated in Japanese animation/comics/gaming fandom.[3][4][5] Chinese fannish terminology contains a number of borrowings from Japanese-speaking fandom.[6]
Sources give the original Japanese term for pairing as カップリング (kappuringu), meaning "coupling".[5][7] The Japanese version of the Wikipedia shipping page is titled カップリング (同人) and lists CP and カプ as abbreviations.[7]
Sources disagree on whether "CP" is short for "couple" or "Character Pairing".[8][4]
The use of "CP" in Chinese and Japanese fandom should not be confused with the common usage of the term in the English-speaking world, where it means "child pornography".
References
- ^ "The kind of fans who are into the actor are called solo fans/solo stans (chunfen, aka pure fans) [...] There is generally always some low level of hostility between solo vs shipper fans, because they think being associated with BL is bad for an actor's career." anonymous comment, Archived version posted to fail_fandomanon, 2020-03-04.
- ^ 为什么纯粉会讨厌cp粉？, Archived version (Why do pure fans hate cp fans?), question posted on zhihu.com
- ^ 轻松一刻：又一明星被粉丝坑哭，这次可真闹大了！, Archived version, NetEase, 2020 March 02
- ^ a b Chen, Xin. 2017. “Boys’ Love (Danmei) Fiction on the Chinese Internet : Wasabi Kun, the BL Forum Young Nobleman Changpei, and the Development of an Online Literary Phenomenon.” Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) 2008+. T, University of British Columbia. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0355213.
- ^ a b CP （人物配对CharacterPairing）, Archived version
- ^ See also Funü 腐女, from fujoshi, and Tongren 同人, from Dōjin. Chen, Xin. 2017. “Boys’ Love (Danmei) Fiction on the Chinese Internet : Wasabi Kun, the BL Forum Young Nobleman Changpei, and the Development of an Online Literary Phenomenon.” Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) 2008+. T, University of British Columbia. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0355213.
- ^ a b カップリング (同人), Archived version, Wikipedia
- ^ 原来cp不是couple的意思, Archived version (It turns out that cp does not mean couple!), posted on douban, 7 March 2020.