I just really hate the word “fandom”. It’s just a portmanteau of “fan” and “random”. It sounds like some desperate attempt to be quirky and different. Plus, the word “fanbase” already exists.

idk, i thought it was fan + kingdom, or fanatic + domain?? but yeah, it is a bit weird how we have 'fandom' when 'fanbase' already existed? but that's language for you, always changing all the time wordsandrobots : madmaudlingoes : Actually, Anon, fandom is significantly older than fan base or fanbase ; the OED gives the first known citation of fandom meaning “the community of fans of a thing”…