Not really, no

[clevermanka]

My life as a game show:


Sometimes my dad sends me stuff in the mail. Mostly newspaper clippings or cut-outs from the comic pages. Yesterday, I received this article, from the Indianapolis paper, along with a card that asked "Is this Fandom?" No, Daddy. No, that is not fandom.

Comments

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

(http://cdn.ifanboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/geekchartbig.gif)

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, you're trying to prove a point by posting an image from the Brunching Shuttlecocks?

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! That flowchart is famous.



LOVE your Watson gif.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

That flowchart is famous.

Charlie Sheen is famous. That doesn't make him right or reliable.

The Batman gif on the other hand, is a thing of beauty.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

I challenge you to look at the full-size version of the fandom chart (click to do so) and tell me that this is not how the various geeks see themselves hierarchically. Sadly, they left off "people who make their own clothing" and "costumers." Where would you put them? Wonderfully, you would fit both those categories :-D

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Geek culture is a sub-culture, not a fandom, in my view. See my explanation to _luaineach, below. So any chart that starts off with saying that Geek is a fandom is automatically made irrelevant to me.