WoSo Community
| Synonyms: | WoFo Community, Women's Football Community, Women's Soccer Community |
| See also: | WoSo, Football RPF |
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WoSo Community (typically stylised in all lowercase) is both the term used to refer to the wider fan community of women's football and a common tag used in spaces like Tumblr, TikTok, or Instagram to signal that posts or videos may be of interest to women's soccer fans.
The Community
In much the same was as is used when preceding other words — Woso Stories or WoSo edits — the term WoSo community often simply refers to the wider fan community around women's football or soccer. This includes those in the transformative fan spaces as much as those who attend matches, watch football on television, or discuss matches and players on social media. In addition to being widely used by fans themselves, the term is also used — though much less frequently — in media articles about the fans of women's soccer[1]. Less frequently, though appearing more often on Twitter, the term is used to include the players as well as the fans. How the term is used — whether it is considering fans, fans and players, fans in transformative spaces or just match-going and TV watching fans etc. — varies greatly person to person.
WoSo community spaces are across various social media and online spaces — in addition to those already mentioned there are also subreddits and Discord groups, as well as other places such as the infamous The L Chat — and there are also in-person groups which have formed to do things like give people attending a women's football game on their own other people to go with, to support new attendees at matches, or to go to sports bars or pubs which show women's football. Some of these are for fans of any team, others are team specific.
Examples
- Subreddits: r/FAWSL, r/WomensSoccer, r/NWSL, r/chelsealadiesfc
- Discord: The WoSo Wonderhub
The Tag
In some places, the tag #woso community is used to indicate that content being posted might be of interest to those in the women's football fandom. Notably it is frequently used on Tumblr to tag fanworks, especially Reader-Insert fanworks.
Examples
- #woso community at Tumblr
References
- ^ "Rachael Caldwell, 'WoSoCo: Growing the WoSo Community', Our Game, 6 March 2016". Archived from the original on 2024-11-24.