An event or moment · 2001 · Fandom
Transnational fandom
Fans organising across national borders around media, with a shared calendar of releases and a shared language.
Fandom became infrastructure. When a release date is a global event and the discourse is synchronised across time zones, the parasocial bond stops being a private thing and becomes a public holiday.
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