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Five Minute Fandom
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| Synonyms: | five-minute fandom |
| See also: | Overnight Fandom |
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Five-minute fandom (also spelled "five minute fandom") is a term for a fandom based on a canon that can be consumed in a short amount of time. The term has been used in the context of Yuletide since at least 2013.[1][2]
Examples
- Lemon Stealing Whores (Know Your Meme)
- Chess (AO3)
- Windows 95 Tips (AO3)
- Folgers "Home for the Holidays" Commercial
- FAQ: The “Snake Fight” Portion of Your Thesis Defense (McSweeney's)
- A Tale of Future Crime (Reddit)
- Holy Water - Janet Devlin (Song) (Yuletide Fandom Promo 2020)
- White Snow - Eve (Music Video) https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/303660.html?thread=4600364 Yuletide Fandom Promo 2023])
- Crossing the Water (Yuletide Fandom Promo 2024)
Exchanges focused on short fandoms
- Five Minute Fandoms Livejournal, active in 2012
- Bite-Sized Fandoms Exchange (under 8hrs, all forms of media): https://bitesizedfandomsex.dreamwidth.org/
- Classic Film Exchange (films which tend to be short): https://classicfilmex.dreamwidth.org/
- Jukebox Fanworks Exchange (fest, music which tends to be short): https://jukebox-fest.dreamwidth.org/
- Let Me Introduce You To My Fandom! (exchange, fandoms under 2hrs but can be excerpts of longer fandoms): https://let-me-introduce-you.dreamwidth.org/
- Once Upon a Fic (exchange, fairy tales which tend to be short): https://once-upon-fic.dreamwidth.org/
Links
- Five-minute fandom tag on AO3
- -- I think there's a newer exchange focused on these types of fandom???
References
- ^ bookmarks in this tag created 2013
- ^ yuletiiiiiiiide, Archived version, Yuletide letter posted by ijemanja on 22 October 2014. Contains the quote: "so there's that five minute fandom Lemon Stealing Whores".