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==General Use in Fandom==
==General Use in Fandom==
After Domlijah, the term ''tinhats'' was adopted by fans in many fandoms to describe similar conspiracy theorists and believers. The term is more likely to be used by nonbelievers than the fans in question. Fans sometimes use the tinhat terminology ironically or self-deprecatingly; when they are [[squee|squeeing]] especially loudly over some piece of celebrity gossip, they may type ''*dons tinhat*'' or ''*polishes tinhat*''. They seldom mean that they really believe that their preferred [[OTP]] is a couple in real life.
After Domlijah, the term ''tinhats'' was adopted by fans in many fandoms to describe similar conspiracy theorists and believers. The term is more likely to be used by nonbelievers than the fans in question, though it depends<ref>''I was a hardcore tinhat for a few horrifically embarrassing months in 2009 and proudly identified as such (we all had tinhats on our icons D:).'' Anon comment in [[Fail fandomanon]], [http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/95794.html?thread=469075762#cmt469075 9 July 2014]. (Accessed 27 July 2014)</ref>. Fans sometimes use the tinhat terminology ironically or self-deprecatingly; when they are [[squee|squeeing]] especially loudly over some piece of celebrity gossip, they may type ''*dons tinhat*'' or ''*polishes tinhat*''. They seldom mean that they really believe that their preferred [[OTP]] is a couple in real life.
Most [[Real People Fiction|RPF]] shippers of unconfirmed (or denied) celebrity [[pairings]] do not believe that the ship is real; many RPF [[fanfic|stories]] contain an explicit [[disclaimer]] in the [[header]] emphasizing that the story is fiction and denying any implication that the writer thinks the people in question are actually a couple.
Most [[Real People Fiction|RPF]] shippers of unconfirmed (or denied) celebrity [[pairings]] do not believe that the ship is real; many RPF [[fanfic|stories]] contain an explicit [[disclaimer]] in the [[header]] emphasizing that the story is fiction and denying any implication that the writer thinks the people in question are actually a couple.