i jus t woke up are we all seeing this
donald trump supports safe spaces, confirmed cuck
“We had a guest in the audience this evening: Vice President Elect Mike Pence, I see you walking out but I hope you’ll hear us just a few more moments. There’s nothing to boo here, folks- there’s nothing to boo. We’re all here sharing the story of love.
We have a message for you sir and we hope that you will hear us out. And I encourage everyone to pull out your phones and tweet and post because this message needs to be spread far and wide.
Vice President Elect Pence, we welcome you and we truly thank you for joining us here at Hamilton: An American Musical. We, we sir, are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us: our planet, our children, our parents- or defend usor our inalienable rights, sir. But we truly hope that this show has inspired you to uphold our American values and work on behalf of the rights of all of us- all of us.” -Javier Muñoz
An Open Letter to Everyone in My Generation and Younger
The word you’re looking for is “fanbase,” not “fandom.”
Thank you.
Sincerely,
A petty Grammar Nazi
Things heating up in the grammer fandom
Someone else pointed out that Fandom is a perfectly cromulent word. In fact, Merriam shows it’s in the bottom 40%, and was made in 1903. Fanbase, however, is in the bottom 10% and no date listed. So if anything, fanbase is the ‘fake’ word.
I myself use the two words to mean two different things. A fanbase is what an artist or company can rely upon as a source of income. A fandom is a culture of fans that are interested in a particular subject, but may or may not be a fanbase of any one particular company. Beliebers are a fanbase because they are devoted to giving him money. Punk rockers are in a fandom because its members may be creators instead of simply buyers, and the buyers support no one specific content creator.
The MLP fanbase are people who consistently buy Hasbro merchandise. But the MLP fandom may have people with OCs or webcomic makers who never once bought the actual toys.
Nightguard embiggens the explanation.
