some peculiar fan community nicknames

  • Avatards (Avatar: The Last Airbender or Avatar)
  • Buffistas (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • Daisy-Pushers (Pushing Daisies) 
  • Darklings (Darkwing Duck)
  • Dunderheads (US version of The Office)
  • Gleeks (Glee)
  • Heroes or Colbert Nation (The Colbert Report) 
  • Leaper (Quantum Leap)
  • Lostralians (Lost)
  • Pokémaniac (Pokémon)
  • Sidekicks (Heroes)
  • Transfans (Transformers)
  • Wheel Watchers (Wheel of Fortune)
  • Wingnuts (The West Wing)
  • Whovians (Doctor Who)
  • X-Philes (The X-Files)
  • Xenites (Xena: Warrior Princess)

transfans?

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for a whole lot more (including fans of bands, movies, and videogames): tvtropes.org

October 13, 2011
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peculiarities lists television subcultures
every time i turn around: there’s zeljko ivanek again as many of you know, i’ve had to pay an “expert” to photoshop my headshot because i just found out that casting agents are not that into herpes mouth sores. while i put my unsuccessful acting career on hiatus, i thought i’d take a look at a few of the most successful actors around. collectively, these recognizable but unnameable actors have appeared in 110% of all visual media. __ source: u.s. census

every time i turn around: there’s zeljko ivanek again

as many of you know, i’ve had to pay an “expert” to photoshop my headshot because i just found out that casting agents are not that into herpes mouth sores.

while i put my unsuccessful acting career on hiatus, i thought i’d take a look at a few of the most successful actors around. collectively, these recognizable but unnameable actors have appeared in 110% of all visual media.

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source: u.s. census

September 29, 2011
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television data viz
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