#stan behavior

[guywhotalks]

its credibly laughable at how fast the losers here and on twitter are so quick to say that oh they didnt actually enjoy the person they liked who suddenly is outed as a terrible person after all and they were never their favorite . like sure you weren't a insufferable stan who said the person was so funny and so sweet. please you guys have the weakest spine ever when it comes to making yourselves look good

[reflections-in-a-critical-eye]

For some reason the whole Taylor Swift mania thing has made me reconsider the way I look at celebrities and stan culture… I’m a huge fan of bts, especially jungkook, sometimes even to the point of obsession. But I see these people losing their minds over Taylor, following her every move, worshipping even the small actions she does, defending her like their life depends on it and it’s like? You don’t know her? She doesn’t care ab you, not to say she doesn’t care ab her fans but to her, you’ll always just be an indistinguishable “fan” no matter how much of your life you dedicate to her. She’ll just keep getting richer and richer.

It made me realize how I do a lot of these same things for bts, especially Jungkook, and has really made me rethink my behavior and how stan culture has kind of warped my thinking. Like yes, Jungkook is incredibly attractive and talented and kind, but he’s still a person. And it’s such a fine line in stanning spaces between admiration and straight up worship. stan culture seems to be getting more and more unhinged and it’s so strange to watch from another perspective. Just my rambling thoughts, haha

Yes, you're absolutely right, but it's also very easy to fall into the trap. It's not just the individual fan's fault, but a myriad of reasons that lead to it, including from the artist side. I recently listened to someone explaining one of Swift's methods of keeping her fans so attached and interested and it was presumably because she stopped giving promotional interviews and in order to have that gap filled, fans turn to her lyrics in order to find clues about her life. Her dating life is mediated and very public, but she creates a distance by lack of more candid or intimate appearances (in depth interviews and so on). It's easy to create this cult-like image and to have a fandom that moves like that. The bigger it is, the more unhinged the behavior gets. See Army as well or other Kpop fandoms. The Swarm tv series was definitely inspired by the beyhive. When the artist turns into this larger than life figure, this phenomenon is to be expected.

Can we keep ourselves in check? Yes, sure. But not always and it's not easy. Stan behavior is complex and its levels of craziness are on a scale. I see myself falling into the trap. But just because I have awareness, it doesn't mean I stop, you know. Often I have this issue with "babying" some of these men which is ridiculous because I have never done that and I still don't do it with others, except for JM and JK. More in the sense that I see them through rose-tinted glasses sometimes, I can find justifications, they're two babygirls and can do no harm and so on. You know how easy it is for me to check myself? I only have to apply the same way of thinking to other idols and guess what? It doesn't work. I don't see it. In some cases I find some of it completely ridiculous. But this says something about me, not the idol in question. It's the result of being biased and it's difficult to step away from that, but I do try to find a balance.

Another thing that happens when we spend a lot of times in fandom spaces is that we might tend to forget that celebrating achievements and the way we write about these people can turn ridiculous very fast. And if you like the person, it's harder to notice. Writing about an idol through this perspective of them being extraordinary, every minor or mundane aspect has to be praised, etc., gets very close to sounding like propaganda texts. Again, I notice it better when I read stuff about people that I'm not really into. Ten minutes scrolling through Club Chalamet's twitter page and it's like getting a cold shower.

[lonelybitchversion]

gracie abrams liked her post before I did.. isn't she in europe????

[chaos0pikachu]

stans are truly wild and fascinating like they can smell when someone’s talking about their fave like sharks with blood in the water, they’ll know every stat and achievement of their fave yet nothing about the industry they’re in, they’ll flatout deny reality, they’ll dog walk you and your family to the park and back, they’re simultaneously 12 and 45, they’re the most conservative liberal people you will ever meet, they’ll mass donate to charities, they’ll mass dox people, they’re able to do all this while holding down a job or school work, they’re like a monster of the week sam and dean gotta defeat on supernatural, none of them know their origins are an eminem song with elton john

[myguy352forthefuture]

honestly how do stans actually function in actual society. cause i refuse to believe they're capable of being able to handling any kind of conflict without immediately whining about it and trying label it as problematic. like i cant imagine them not at their keyboard whining and bitching about the latest issue with whatever CC and being on their high horse trying to look as good as possible when in reality they care only about themselves and how they look

[jackieblueinmyroom]

I’m returning to my roots. Going full weirdo. Reject society, embrace the daydreams.

[cncozutarapoto]

At this point in time I cannot call myself a stan. But I can call my mom a Paul McCartney stan and a Beatles stan.

She literally wore black for a year after John Lennon was killed and cried and drank in the airport last year when she missed a Paul McCartney concert.

[mejcinta]

We need to start a dialogue about how annoying Brazilian targ/team black stans are because I have had it lmaooooooo. They are insufferable.

I didn't know 😭. Mostly I don't interact with self-proclaimed stans.

I think in general it's so hard to find a sensible targ stan regardless of nationality, although I'm sure there's a few good, fun ones out there.

[cryinglookingatsoulages]

louis: wow no one can hold an interesting philosophical conversation with me 🤭

also louis the second armand tries to hold an interesting philosophical conversation with him: sorry brb need to hallucinate my ex husband calling me a little slut!!!!

[guywhotalks]

These wilbur and dreamteam stans are legitimately insane what is wrong with these kids

[frogdisco2021]

Percy "immediately starts beef with every god he meets by having no filter" Jackson versus Nico "every god thinks he's neat even though he's been nothing but weird and off-putting" di Angelo

[demigods-posts]

me whenever i see people write off annabeth as an annoying and controlling and crazily jealous girlfriend with anger issues. understanding that the foundation of the rhetoric is based off of annabeth's behavior toward percy and rachel is tbotl and tlo. except annabeth's behavior in those books is soley due to the surplus amount of traumatic experiences she's had. ranging from her parents neglecting to care for her well-being when spiders attacked her in the middle of the night as a seven-year-old. to watching everyone she's ever dared to care for die, abandon, or leave her for a better option. so it's much more likely than annabeth was expressing great mental and emotional distress during a period of her life where it was uncertain if the boy she loved would drop dead on his sixteenth birthday. on top of having to uphold a reputation as the best strategist at camp half-blood and devise a plan to fight in a war and save the world before she's a sophomore in high school. so the notion that annabeth is an abusive and toxic individual lacks the consideration that maybe she was just a child forced to carry the weight of the world on her shoulders at all times.

[yourbuckies]

@catws-anniversary | TWS Cast - "I'll take this one."

[myguy352forthefuture]

minecraft stans and stans in general have to be the most obnoxious people on earth. like the second someone they used to like gets outed as something they're so quick to suddenly say "i yeah i never liked them, all their stuff was so bad" as if they didn't read a ton of fan fics or make fan art of them. be for real you absolute losers and have an actual spine

[stargirlblogger444]

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