fandom

A fight between fans over which characters should be together, conducted with charts, fanfiction and the intensity of a religious schism, and revived in 2025 by hockey players and a teen drama's summer. The record's entry for the argument that has ended more friendships than politics.

Wanting two characters to be in a relationship. The founding verb of fandom, and now also what you do to real people you have never met.

Performed superbly, with no crumbs left. Sometimes extended to 'ate and left no crumbs', which is the same thing said by someone who has not.

A conflict between fandoms — over charts, awards, or nothing — conducted in replies and hashtags, as the stan internet's national sport. The record's entry for the war with no casualties and no end, and for the trending topic that is its battlefield.

One true pairing. The couple you would defend to a stranger, and have.

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.

The fan side of Twitter — the pop girls, the K-pop groups, the charts, the wars — with its own vocabulary, most of which is now everyone's: 'ate', 'mother', 'flop', 'reheating nachos'. The record's entry for the community that coined more of this dictionary than any other.

Archive of Our Own — the fanfiction archive built by fans, run by volunteers, tagged with more precision than any library, and the winner of a Hugo Award in 2019. The record's entry for the site, and for 'AO3 tags' as a genre of joke about specificity.