Fandom Frollo

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See also:	anti, fandomentalist, wokester, fanpol, fancop, Anti-shipper, Callout Culture, Fandom Police, Problematic, Purity Culture in Fandom, Your Fave Is Problematic, Warriors of Innocence
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The term is named after Dom Claude Frollo who is the main antagonist in Victor Hugo's 1831 gothic novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

Fans Unhappy With the Term

While I find the term “fandom frollo” both accurate and amusing, I think this term is also a bit too opaque, since anyone who isn’t familiar with Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame won’t really understand the connotation there. Plus, well, some of us anti-antis/pro-shippers are big fans of Frollo as a character, so associating negative IRL fandom behaviour with that character could become alienating to the actual Frollo fandom.

Anonymous asked: Bring back the term Fandom Frollo

Did it go away? It’s of pretty recent vintage and still turns up in the same places I first saw it (namely FINR’s tumblr).

I don’t tend to use it myself because I’ve never seen that movie and generally find Disney boring and irrelevant. There’s this idea that everybody had a Disney princess phase or something and is either one of those bizarre corporate stans to this day or is a fallen ex-Disney fanatic. It feels like when people expect me to be an ex Christian because I am a non Christian.

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So for me, it’s annoying in that way that all cultural references you don’t share but are expected to pretend are universal are annoying.

Other Comments

WE GOT ANOTHER ONE LADS

I think I may have come across another Fandom Frollo (aka - closet MAP who screeches at fiction and accuses everyone else of being sex offenders to cover their ass). First it was IHPAZ, then it was rasinrat, then it was the Twitter Purity Crusade CP ring (yes, that’s ACTUALLY a thing!), and now... I think I might have caught another one of these jokers in the act.

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Blatant accusations with zero proof – another classic Fandom Frollo tactic. If I accuse everyone else of being pedos, then I’m clearly helping! Look at me protecting the kids! Look at me being wholesome and pure!!

So they’re not going to be called fancops either – even though they behave similarly to the people they claim to be fighting against in fandom and are also trying their hardest to control or limit other people’s rights to say, ship, like (or dislike), and speak about what they want in fandom.

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Then, despite the fake-gracious acknowledgement up there that perhaps “fanpol/cop might be insensitive to people who have to deal with police violence”, she then goes on to brush it off because “if you police your fellow fans, you deserve the label that fits” – despite (supposedly jokingly) rejecting “fandom Frollo” because it might offend… The Frollo fandom.

Further Reading/Meta

• Claude Frollo’s Secret Fangirls, Part Deux (feat Reylos, inexplicably) ; Wayback; archive link by iwasonceafangirl (2019)
• That awkward moment when you can’t decide which one of your friends is Claude Frollo’s favorite concubine ; Wayback; archive link by iwasonceafangirl (2019)
• r/hobbydrama has more or less turned into fandomwank at this point ; Wayback link; archive link by kinnoth (2020)
• Ship wars, fanfiction, potatoes, Frollo, the Prime Minister of Canada, and geese: the agony and ecstasy of the Justinian Fandom; Wayback; archive link by iwasonceafangirl (2019-2020)