Are we Technically Fans of the Lolcows we Follow?

Freikugel

Freikugel

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This is something I've been thinking about for awhile. I understand that we make threads and shit about lolcows specifically to shit on them, but it gets to the point where we get through hundreds of pages of discussion about this one person and actively follow their fuck ups for our amusement. Is gaining amusement from their negative aspects and wanting to know what happens to them next all that different from those who focus on their positives and then do the same? I'm sure this is hardly an original idea for a thread, but I've been wanting to talk about it for awhile now.
 
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In a way yes, there is a bit of a fandom around some of the cows we follow. I don't think it's all just from the amusement of their personal fuckups, but also watching them change as people and for some of us there is a small hope they turn their lives around. Of course for others it's more fun to watch them ruin themselves even harder, like pick any number of pedos that have been called out, it's fun to watch them burn.
 
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Are you still a fan if you hatewatch?
I have a feeling big AL as well as Chantal owe a large number of their views (but not ad revenue :tomgirl:) to the haydurs. In a way, those that hate them kinda allow them to continue doing what it is they do. I also feel like this may also apply to the rest of our cows in a way. Attention seems to power a lot of them.
 
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I hope not. I think I would an hero myself if I concluded I was a fan of Brianna Wu, MovieBob, MundaneMatt, Vox Day and/or Chelsea VanSkankenberg.

There's a couple of cows I sometimes feel a bit sorry for, like Anna Johnson and the late Terry Davis, but even in their case I'm not sure I'd consider myself a fan.
 
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Apoth42 said:
A person who buys a CD just to destroy it in protest makes just as much impact as a fan.
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When I was in high school a guy told me he had a poster of a band he hated on his wall because his brother said he'd give him $5 to hang it up and he just left it there (for years.) And he said he bought CDs of bands he hated to write parodies of them so he listened to them over and over (but never wrote the parodies.)
 
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It really depends on JUST how much someone follows one of these "cows". Some people take a bit too much interest in some of these livestock specimens and follow them with zealous curiosity. So I would say that some of these people here are indeed fans of the bovines which they revile and claim to find humorous.
"He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster, and if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee."
 
Yes. We definitely are. Why and how we're fans, however, is definitely unique compared to a traditional fan.
 
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