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Food
| Synonyms: | fanworks |
| See also: | Food in fanworks |
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In online communities, the word food is often used as a slang term for entertainment and creative content engaged with and enjoyed by the speaker, drawing a parallel to food as a source of nourishment and enrichment. In fandom, the term may refer to fanworks, often those that featured preferred elements such as characters or pairings.
Since the inception of the term, various phrases and expressions derived from the term and its metaphor have appeared online. Examples of such phrases include:
- 'Make one's food', denoting the need for an individual to create fanworks themselves due to an insufficient or unsatisfactory amount of content;
- 'Thanks for the food', an expression of gratitude towards the creator of a fanwork;
- 'I ate well today', an expression of satisfaction upon discovering a enjoyable fanwork;
- 'Starving', an expression of frustration when faced with a scarcity of content one enjoys that emphasizes the lack of available material.