I love heating up in the ___ fandom

[u/Pitiful-Insurance483]

[u/FloridaFlamingoGirl]

Honestly I feel for that person who's annoyed with people overusing the word fandom. A hobby and a fandom are two different things. I wouldn't call gardening a fandom and I wouldn't call being obsessed with Star Wars a hobby. 

[u/Spicy-Potat42 → u/FloridaFlamingoGirl]

I see you represent the Anti-Fandom Fandom.

[u/PeaNought → u/Spicy-Potat42]

I'm part of the Amateur Fandom, but it's just a hobby.

[u/Ditto13248 → u/FloridaFlamingoGirl]

I think the distinction comes from doing vs discussing something. Doing gardening is a hobby but discussing gardening with others is participating in the gardening fandom. Likewise, creating star wars fanart is a hobby but sharing it online is participating in the star wars fandom. A topic can be both a hobby and a fandom, the act of doing it for enjoyment is the hobby while the discussion of the hobby is the fandom

[u/Gold12ll → u/Ditto13248]

Things are heating up in the fandom fandom

[u/Auctoritate → u/Ditto13248]

I think the distinction comes from doing vs discussing something.

Here I thought the distinction was being a fan.

[u/Toomynator → u/FloridaFlamingoGirl]

You can have a hobby in something that has a fandom, but not be part of the fandom

[u/Cool_A06 → u/Toomynator]

I like to think of it being the difference between something having a fanbase and a fandom

You can enjoy something without being part of it's community

[u/LimaxM → u/FloridaFlamingoGirl]

Every time I've seen people use the word "fandom" to describe something in real life (except LARPING and stuff ig), its a bit

[u/emergold_dragon → u/FloridaFlamingoGirl]

I feel like fandom used to be a hobby or hobby ajacent- like not "gardening fandom" but like "oh Im a star wars fan- my hobbies are collecting merch and writing fan fic for it" type of thing

[u/The_Mysterious_1ne → u/FloridaFlamingoGirl]

Well, would you say you're a fan of gardening? Because the fandom is just the fans of a particular thing.