Fandom & stan culture
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🏷 Topic challenge · Fandom & stan culture edition
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● Alivev.✎ 7
Stan
To support obsessively. Began as a cautionary tale about a fan who drives into a river and ended as a neutral verb, which the song did not intend.
▸ 2000peak 2017still up
☠ Deadn.✎ 2
MSN Messenger
Where the world outside America instant-messaged. Retired into Skype in 2013, which was retired into Teams in 2025; the users were migrated twice and consulted neither time.
▸ 1999peak 2007†2013
☠ Deadn.✎ 4
Away Message
A short text left behind when you stepped away, usually song lyrics chosen to be read by one specific person. The status update took the form and discarded the sincerity.
▸ 1997peak 2003†2010
☠ Deadn.✎ 1
Buddy List
A short list of people who might be online right now. Every social graph since has been a buddy list that forgot it was supposed to be short.
▸ 1997peak 2003†2017
☠ Deadn.✎ 4
Ask Jeeves
A cartoon butler who took questions in full sentences and mostly misunderstood them. Every voice assistant is Jeeves with the butler removed and the misunderstanding retained.
▸ 1996peak 2000†2006
☠ Deadn.✎ 5
Frames
A page made of several pages in windows that scrolled independently, none of which could be bookmarked. Killed when the standards body simply declined to mention them again.
▸ 1996peak 1999†2008
☠ Deadn.✎ 3
ICQ
The first instant messenger, with numbers instead of names and the uh-oh. Lasted twenty-eight years, mostly in Russia, and was switched off with two weeks' notice.
▸ 1996peak 1999†2024
▲ Fossiln.✎ 5
Leetspeak
Numbers standing in for letters to evade filters and signal membership. Ended when your aunt's password was p4ssw0rd.
▸ 1994peak 2001†2008