A person from Random Town, USA thousands of miles away that just happens to be a "fan" of historically successful and popular teams. This person has no ties to the city or state the team calls home and never will have any experience with real fans of the team at local events, home games, etc.
The local real fans from the area of the team dont even take these people serious, so they're "fans" of a team whose real fanbase doesnt even acknowledge them and considers them a joke.
The local real fans from the area of the team dont even take these people serious, so they're "fans" of a team whose real fanbase doesnt even acknowledge them and considers them a joke.
I live in Willacoochee, Georgia. I've barely even been outside of my state before, but I'm a bandwagon fan of teams like the Cowboys/Packers/Steelers/Patriots/Yankees/Golden State/Cavs because they are popular.
by TruthTellerEternal January 16, 2017
Get the Bandwagon Fanmug. A term originating from China for a new fan-idol relationship that is being seen. It is a fan who has gone beyond a parasocial relationship, where fans have stepped up from merely worshipping the idols to feeling (whether true or not) that they are co-cultivating their idols, including their public images, the scope of their work, and even their personal lives.
Many of these fans can become entitled and toxic if the subject of their focus doesn't act in accordance to their desires, expectations, and beliefs they've built around them, or if they are not provided with content they feel entitled to by the person they "helped co-create".
Many of these fans can become entitled and toxic if the subject of their focus doesn't act in accordance to their desires, expectations, and beliefs they've built around them, or if they are not provided with content they feel entitled to by the person they "helped co-create".
They stopped streaming to take a break for a couple weeks and already the parakin fans are demanding that they are owed new content and threatening to cancel their subscriptions/memberships.
by SockMonkey Monk November 8, 2023
Get the Parakin Fanmug. The Arsenal fans in Cardiff this weekend (17/5/03) were miserable as fuck, despite winning the cup. Anyone would've thought they'd lost!
by J D May 18, 2003
Get the Arsenal Fansmug. A real, true fan of the Oakland Raiders.
Let's separate the real fans from the high crackheads who show up and get in fights. The first have to be the best fans any sports team could ask for. They dress up, and yell, and love the Raiders to give them support. They treat the Raiders as more than a sports team, more like a way of life. then there are the drunk assholes, who are often categorized with the diehard fans, but rather they do not care whether the Raiders win or lose, just how drunk they can get and how many fights they can get into. Those two groups of fans being clumped into one is a terrible thing.
OAKLAND A'S SUCK!!!!!
Let's separate the real fans from the high crackheads who show up and get in fights. The first have to be the best fans any sports team could ask for. They dress up, and yell, and love the Raiders to give them support. They treat the Raiders as more than a sports team, more like a way of life. then there are the drunk assholes, who are often categorized with the diehard fans, but rather they do not care whether the Raiders win or lose, just how drunk they can get and how many fights they can get into. Those two groups of fans being clumped into one is a terrible thing.
OAKLAND A'S SUCK!!!!!
by Master P July 2, 2003
Get the Raider Fanmug. A person who roots for a Non-Hometown team based on that teams good record. Or from having some childhood memory of going to a game of that said team with their pedophile uncle.
I cant stand Baltimore's collection of Plastic Fan Steeler lovers, they should try some hometown love for once.
by K1ller Mosquito January 2, 2012
Get the Plastic Fanmug. by Captain Reh. April 1, 2003
Get the Derby Fanmug. a mostly non-sexual enfatuation that a man has for another man. ussually due to the fanee having attributes that the fanner wishes he had.
by KarlRichII July 24, 2006
Get the man-fanmug.