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Stan Twitter is a community of most twitter and tiktok users that post stuff related to celebrities
The "american side" is the bigger side of the community, they are usually nice but can be annoying
Some of their icons: Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, Ariana Grande, Mitski
The "kpop side" is the smaller but much more toxic than the american side. Most of them will tell anyone they find annoying to kill themselves then say that it's a joke and that they shouldn't be a softie about it.
Some of their icons are: Stray Kids, Twice, TXT, Kep1er, LOONA
Most of the stan twitter community loves to overuse words such as "slay" or "purr"
just lame idolatry that needs to dissipate soon or the implications for pop music will be something substantially worse than ironic. I’d like to add that I don’t think Eminem deserves to have inadvertently coined the unfortunate term “stan,” but that would be a stan Eminem thing to say, and, let’s face it, I have been a stan, a shameful thing to admit, but at least not a “swift or”! despite admittedly liking much of the over-comparatively unduly hyped, bland-ish pop star’s (redundant?) “music.”
to Sky Ferreira Twitter-stan is an exercise in unironic self-abasement, but definitely retains a certain underground style, qua ultimate pop hero(in(e)), unlike most of so-called stan Twitter