When it come to fandom their are some many different verations! Almost anything can have a fandom, after all a fandom is “the fans of a particular person, team, fictional series, etc. regarded collectively as a community or subculture” accoriedng to Cambridge Dictionary
All definitions used in their blog are form Cambridge Dictionary and the exampls are just osme of my favorite of the most popular form their each category! If I am part of the fandom myself I will make it it will a star (*)
While I cannot cover every fandom and their type, I have compiled a list of the main types of fandoms and some examples!
TV Shows
"A live or recorded broadcast or program , or series of broadcasts or programs, meant to be viewed on television"
Examples: Supernatural*, Sherlock Holmes, Vampires Diaries*
Web Comics
"a series of comic strips published online"
Examples: Lore Olympus, Homestuck
Books or Literary Fandom's
"a written text that can be published in printed or electronic form"
Examples: Harry Potter*, Sherlock Holmes, Tolken J.R.R, Song or Ice and Fire
Actors/Singers
"someone who pretends to be someone else while performing in a movie, play, or television or radio program"
Examples: “Real People Fiction” (yes, it is a thing), Sports, Actors
Entering a new fandom or Breaching out into a new type of fandom can be scary somestime! It compleatly okay to enjoy a form of medie and not be part of the fandom! Enjoy the video below about what it can be like to join some of the "scariest" fandoms!
Fandom media also has a lot of movement for one medium to another. Sometime this caching of media makes no since, but it’s more contect fo the fandom, so people dont really compaline (in less the new media is REALLY bad, then lots of people will complain, very loudly and on lots of platforms). Some media with a connected fandom that have had many changes in media types are Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
The Jounery of Percy Jackson:
This fandom started with a book series written by Rick Riordan, then made into a movie (that flopped), then it was made into comic serious (that is pretty good), then is was made into a musical (The Lightning Thief: The Musical, Yes, I did go see it and, yes it was amazing, please look it up or see if it is touring) and now at the time of this blog is being written it is being made into a TV show by Disney+ (I've posted all about it on my Instagram which you can find here)!
One Piece
One Piece is an example of a fandom that has moved from one media type to another, but this time it started as a Manga. The manga began being published in in 1997 with new chapters still coming out weekly to this day. Then in 1999 an aminated version of the mange was created, leading to the first change of media for this fandom. This transition from manga to anime and vice versa is very common for the media created in the East, something we don’t see very often in the West. One Piece stayed with just its manga and anime adaptation for a long time, with various animated movies being created along the way. It was not untail 2023 we see the next change in media type for the fandom, this time into a live-action made by Netflix. While I am not a fan of the One Piece anime or Mange, I am a big fan of the live action! If you have the time and want to try something adjacent to anime to see if it is something you would enjoy, this live-action is a great place to start
Critical Roll
For an example with fewer changes of media we can look at Critical Roll, a Dungeons and Dragons podcast. The podcast itself was founded by a group of “nerdy-ass voice actors” who enjoyed playing DnD together and decided to record it. From there their advancers have been podcasted, and streamed to millions of fans all over the world. The stories of their character’s “side quest” or side advancers to the main plot have been published in books so you can read about their characters in a different format. Most recently their first campaign has been made into an animated TV show on Amazon Prime.