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This trope is under discussion in the Trope Repair Shop. A Big Name Fan (BNF) is someone who, while not officially associated with the company that produces a given work — say, for the purposes of this article, Star Wars — is still widely known in the Star Wars fan community, and possibly by the producers of Star Wars themselves. Maybe the BNF created a fan website that has become the source for information on Star Wars. Maybe they created a Star Wars Fanfic or other amateur Derivative Work that is so well-done everyone in the fandom has seen it. Maybe they just got posted on YouTube waving a lightsaber around like a spastic monkey.note Most BNFs are known for more positive things. Regardless, everyone in the fandom now knows their name... or at least their Internet handle. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })This can get a little weird for some BNFs, who often still think of themselves as "just another fan." Some will let it go to their heads (even before they've truly hit the big time), some will freak out, some will just take it in stride. It's arguable where the line is between Big Name Fan and just plain fan is, of course. However, when they're invited to speak at a Star Wars convention, or hired by Lucasfilm to continue what they were already doing for free, any doubt that they've become a Big Name Fan goes out the window. The recognition is great, but remember that Celebrity Is Overrated: BNFs are easy targets, and are often singled out for torment by jealous fans. This may extend to their friends. Thankfully, the anonymity factor helps their life from getting too crazy: the vast majority of BNFs today did whatever they became famous for on the Internet while older ones did so through fanzines and mail, so their faces (and/or real names) are often unknown to most, making them indeed just another fan in the real world (even if they're gods on the Net). Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Not to be confused with BMF, nor a Big Name / Important Person who turns out to be a Fan - otherwise known as One of Us. Compare/contrast with Promoted Fanboy. |
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For the Sherlock fandom, we have Angrybeige. | |
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After an entry of The Far Side referred to Jane Goodall as a tramp, Gary Larson received a letter that threatened a lawsuit. After some complicated legal issues, it finally turned out that Goodall herself loved the cartoon and was completely unaware of any of what had happened, which quickly cleared everything up. In fact, the Jane Goodall Institute now has a licensing deal, and T-shirts featuring the "Jane Goodall Tramp" cartoon became one of the hottest sellers. | |
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Faith No More also has Metallica, Anthrax, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Helloween, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Guns N' Roses, and many others as fans of theirs. | |
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From the StarCraft series: Arguably every pro-level player, both in and out of Korea. Amateur commentators like Mike "Husky Starcraft" Lamond, Sean "Day9" Plott (himself a former pro-level player), and a slew of others are regularly hired by Blizzard and other pro-level game leagues to commentate the games. StarCrafts, created by Carbot, not only has official t-shirts sold by Blizzard, but also has his images incorporated into both icons and profile images in the game itself. |
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In Spider-Girl, a temporary love interest for the main character, Chris Jarkoer, was named after a fan, Jarkover. | |
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David Goldfarb, an ex-developer from DICE who helped with the production of the Battlefield series, is a huge fan of films that involve bank robberies and similar heists and had been wanting to produce a game in that genre for years. After David left DICE, he joined Overkill Software, the makers of PAYDAY: The Heist, and helped the studio produce the sequel. | |
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Similar to McFeely, Grace Anderson, known commonly as "Megchan", was not only the official translator for the first four seasons of Digimon, but also ran a now-defunct fan site called Megchan's Digimon Sekai where she provided overseas fans access to Japanese material and translated updates as the shows were coming out in Japan. | |
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Max Christiansen, AKA Maximilian Dood (of The Online Warrior, Assist Me, and Yo Videogames fame) is a Big Name Fan for the entire Fighting Game genre, plus a few other specific titles like Devil May Cry. He's held in high regard by quite a few big names in the industry like Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada, Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon, and actor Reuben Langdon (who plays two of his all-time favorite characters, Ken Masters and Dante). He's also become a Promoted Fanboy a few times, doing official work for Capcomnote Hosting the Cross Assault web series to promote Street Fighter X Tekken and the Assist Me videos were officially sponsored to the point where Capcom's Yoshinori Ono cameoed in the last episode and more prominently Iron Galaxy Studios.note Producing trailers and story mode cutscenes for the Killer Instinct reboot | |
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Arrow fans are hugely aware of fan artist Lord Mesa, who creates short, small, cute and silly Arrow fan art pieces. They're so well known to the fans that the Arrow production team have a wall of their art at the offices.◊ | |
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And then there's MLP Analysis, essentially becoming the Channel Awesome of the Brony Community. Well-known members include, but are not limited to, Joshscorcher, Silver Quill, and I Love Kim Possible A Lot. | |
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The Black Crowes count quite a few rock stars as big name fans. Among them are Alice Cooper, who applauded them as "a band out of time," Peter Frampton, who said they were the band to bring a dirty sound back to rock and roll, and Slash, who considers them one of his favorite bands, and has nothing but compliments whenever he talks about them. Jimmy Page is such a big name fan that he did a whole tour performing with them, playing part Crowes material, part Zeppelin material, and a healthy dose of blues standards. A well-received live album came out of it. |
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The Dark Souls community has several: VaatiVidya and Epic Name Bro are both known for their in-depth, comprehensive analysis of the game series' lore (which is famously vague and complex). OnlyAfro, on the other hand, is a Fountain of Memes who usually posts videos of himself trolling people in PvP in numerous inventive (and usually hilarious) ways. | |
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Fans of Miraculous Ladybug have heard of tumblr user AzuraJae. Jae started mlsubbing, a large scale fansubbing project for the budding show involving at least twelve different languages and gained 10,000+ followers in the span of just three months. Since the start of Jae's project, the fandom has exploded tremendously in numbers - One could say she revolutionized the fandom. She was also the one to give Thomas Astruc the affectionate fanon nickname Hawkdaddy, or Papapillon in French. Additionally, Jae loves to draw fan art and write fanfiction and uploads to them to tumblr. | |
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In beatmania IIDX communities, you can expect to hear the player names MADOKA and DOLCE. a lot; they are known as two of the best IIDX players in Japan, often becoming the finalists in the IIDX tournament at the annual Konami Arcade Championship. | |
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John also really likes Yogi Bear, so much so in fact he did his own take on it with 3 shorts in the '90s. | |
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Fire Emblem has VincentASM, owner of Serenes Forest, the largest and most complete Fire Emblem site. The End also rose to this level when he translated the Hasha no Tsurugi manga. | |
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Faith No More has Lady Gaga as a fan of theirs; they did a cover of her song "Poker Face", and Lady Gaga tweeted that she could die a happy woman because of that. Faith No More also has Metallica, Anthrax, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Helloween, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Guns N' Roses, and many others as fans of theirs. |
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Atop the Fourth Wall: Linkara has among his fans Gail Simone (a fan of his comic reviews) and a Super Sentai suit actress (a fan of History of Power Rangers). | |
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John De Lancie, after voicing Discord in the Season 2 premiere, has become one and eventually made a documentary to put a positive spin on the Brony fandom after seeing how disrespectfully the national news portrays them. | |
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Several examples in the Harry Potter fandom: Cassandra (Cassie) Claire, known for popularizing (if not in fact creating) a certain characterization of Draco Malfoy, and for plagiarizing most of her well known fic in that fandom. Parlayed her pre-existing fan-base into a publishing deal for her original fiction. She also has the privilege of being a BNF of two fandoms — while she is mostly known for her Harry Potter fiction, she is infamous in The Lord of the Rings fandom for The Very Secret Diaries. Melissa Anelli, webmistress of The Leaky Cauldron. Like Emerson, she was invited to interview J. K. Rowling, managed to get an interview with Rowling on PotterCast, got a foreward written by Rowling in her Harry: A History book and is often called on by the media to talk about the series. She is also a senior creative consultant on Pottermore, a project officially endorsed by Rowling. Steve Vander Ark of The Harry Potter Lexicon. The Lexicon was one of the websites J. K. Rowling favored in the Harry Potter fandom, until they decided to publish a book based on the website that was almost entirely her own words... John Noe of PotterCast / The Leaky Cauldron is also a bit of a BNF, since he had the character of John Dawlish named after him. Makani is one of the most famous Harry Potter fanartists. Her art is used in The Leaky Cauldron as a kind of "official" image for HP characters, and her take on the Malfoy family is source of much fanon. Makani soon became a BNF in the Team Fortress 2 fandom for her artist's rendition of The Administrator, that later became canon. And then Valve hired her. Neil Cicierega is especially well known for his Potter Puppet Pals series. Emerson Spartz, creator of Mugglenet, deffinitely qualifies for this, as he has interviewed J. K. Rowling and he was one of the writers involved in two HP-based books, both of which were best-sellers. At least among the Marauders Era fanbase, The Shoebox Project is often accepted as the definitive fanfiction for the four friends. The writers, LiveJournal users ladyjaida and dorkorific are respected and revered among the fandom. ladyjaida, real name Jaida Jones, moved on to cowrite the book Havemercy. And now she has her own fandom. Ninety percent of Havemercy fangirls started as Shoebox fangirls, and they're an insanely loyal bunch. Harry and the Potters, anyone? Draco and the Malfoys? Whoever heard of making rockbands off books, really... Also, the musical theatre group Team StarKid who made the Affectionate Parody A Very Potter Musical. The guy who played Harry Potter (Darren Criss) is actually a mainstream actor now, what with his role on Glee, and Ron Weasley recently made an appearance as a background dancer. John Granger aka the Hogwarts Professor could count. He's written several books on the series and currently hosts Mugglenet Acadamia which dissects different aspects of the series. He also previously hosted the Pottercast recurring segment, Potter Pundits which does the same thing. |
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For Supernatural the character Jamie in the season 4 episode Monster Movie was named for a sick fan. Tracy went from a fan who writes Dean/Castiel fic and likes Misha Collins, to meeting Misha and having a milkshake with him, having her friends asked where she was when she wasn't at a convention and running the charity The Random Act which Misha's minions created. Madison from the same fandom also somewhat fits this; she had tea with Misha Collins and has arguably one of the best known blogs in the fandom. |
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Mina De Malfois is a fictional example whose position occasionally sets her in the middle of the fandom controversy she comments on. | |
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A few Power Rangers BNFs have had shout-outs as well: Derik Smith: Monster of the Week named Kired. Joe Rovang: Monster of the Week named Rofang. Jason Takach: Monster of the Week named Takach. Jesse Lee Herndon (better known as SirSTACK) — Herndon Laboratories. Chris Funaro: Funaro Maximum Security Prison. And don't forget Amit Bhaumik. He was the webmaster of an extensive, detailed and now defunct Power Rangers information database called the "Online Archives". He was one mind behind the (in)famous Scorpion Rain hoax. He became story editor of Wild Force and worked on that season's two crossover eps. He also worked as a "consultant" on Power Rangers (Super) Samurai, and co-wrote two of the series clip shows. Unfortunately, Chris Funaro revealed that the two had had a bitter falling out (Amit understandably loves Samurai, Chris does not) Lewis Lovhaug probably counts, especially considering he got invited as a guest to PowerMorphicon. For the show's 20th Anniversary Saban created the Super Fan Power Force and invited fans to apply to help participate in the promotion of the 20th anniversary. Since slots were extremely limited to 20, you pretty much had to be a Big Name Fan to get in, with the application asking for what sites the applicants were involved with and other credentials, so many fans need not have applied. Amongst those picked were Linkara, Fury Diamond, Darkblaze, Lavender Ranger, Linear Ranger, and Power Morphicon to name a few. Andre the Black Nerd was always a fan, but started gaining more attention around the Neo-Saban era. By 2015 he was big enough that he was hosting the panel for Power Rangers Dino Charge at Comic-Con. |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion, according to The Other Wiki, has several authoritative fan commentators, such as Taliesin Jaffe (from the End of Eva DVD commentary, who Funimation now turns to as their "Eva Expert" for Rebuild of Evangelion) and Sean McCoy (from the ADV Platinum DVD commentary, who now regularly runs Eva panels at Con.) | |
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The Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go fandom has Netbug009, she will deny this but we all know it's true... Though her Status as a BNF may be the result of the fact that it's a small Fandom and she's the one currently running the only active fan-forum Monkey See, Monkey Fu. There were some others back in the day, but most of them have moved on. While not still actively in the fandom, if you didn't know about Sora-Mito's fanart back in the day, you had either been hiding under a Shuggazoomian rock or had seen it without realizing it. (Quite a few people took it for their own websites without permission or credit.) Then there was ii, who was the head Admin on MSMF for a while and went through SEVERAL Usernames in his time. Oh yea, he was also one of the few boys in the Fandom which certainly helped his case... |
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Total Drama: Winter Rae, a notorious Crack Pairing writer, and The Kobold Necromancer, who wrote the pioneering Total Drama Comeback series as a spin-off second and third season. If you know anything about Total Drama fanfiction, you've heard of their works. Courtney Garcia, AKA CITPrincess is a very popular TDI artist on deviantART, who is well known for her outstanding cosplays of Courtney (the character) and live action reenactments of her scenes from the Total Drama series. She became even better known after winning a Halloween Contest sponsored by the official Total Drama Island Blog in 2009. She's even hung out with Chris Potenza himself for a convention and still keeps in contact with him. |
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine had a plethora of celebrity fans, including Guillermo del Toro, Mark Hamill, Seth Meyers, Patton Oswalt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sean Astin, and a whole bunch of others. When the show's cancellation by Fox was announced, their public support of the show was instrumental in it being picked up by NBC. Miranda and Astin became guest stars on the show after its renewal, while Oswalt had already guest-starred a few times prior to that. | |
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While multiple members of The Black Dahlia Murder are known for their championing of small-time and obscure acts and efforts to expose them to a wider audience, Trevor Strnad and Alan Cassidy take it even further. The former runs The Obituarist, a column on Metal Injection, where he does a rundown of recent and up-and-coming releases from a wide variety of underground acts, while the latter took it one step further and joined the UK technical death metal outfit Slugdge (which he was a longtime fan of) as a dedicated drummer after they asked him to do session drums on a future release. | |
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A Let's Player by the name of Northernlion is very well-known in the The Binding of Isaac community, mostly because he does a daily run through the game that has been on-going for several years. Community reactions are a bit split on him, largely over his playstyle, but he's well-known enough that game creator Edmund McMillen guest-commentated on one of his playthroughs. | |
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Sal Piro became a BNF for The Rocky Horror Picture Show, using Audience Participation to make the movie a cult classic. | |
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Homestuck: Writer/artist Andrew Hussie featured a couple of Shout-Outs to Dante Basco's character "Rufio" from Hook. Naturally, the fandom told him about this, and he's now on Act 6. Andrew Hussie later asked popular fan artist Shelby to draw art for in-universe Fangirl Calliope. |
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The writer of Irregular Webcomic! attracted the attention of Jane Goodall (a character in the comic and one of his heroes) to the point that he eventually had an interview with her that was posted in the comic. It wasn't fully apparent if she was a fan of the comic, however. | |
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Let's Play-er Chuggaaconroy is a BNF of the Mother series, Pokémon, Xenoblade, Ōkami, and The Legend of Zelda all at once. He can be considered a BNF of Nintendo in general. Chugga also has an unusually bilateral example of this in the case of Jaiden Animations, as both content creators are subscribed to one another and follow each other on Twitter. |
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The Price Is Right has Marc Green and John Sly, founders of Price fan forum golden-road.net. The forum was once so popular that several staff members posted there, even former producer Roger Dobkowitz. | |
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Ready Player One: Terry Brooks, Charlaine Harris, Patrick Rothfuss, Daniel H. Wilson, John Scalzi, James Swallow and Joseph Delaney have all given the book their recommendation. As revealed in this video, Whoopi Goldberg and the late Robin Williams are also fans of the book. |
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ECW had a core group of superfans, known as "Club ECW", who seemed to appear in choice seats in the audience of their shows week after week. Some of them became known by Fan Nicknames due to their distinctive appearances ("Sign Guy" always had a witty sign, "Hat Guy" always wore a straw hat and Hawaiian shirt, "Faith No More Guy" bore a stunning resemblance to Jim Martin from Faith No More, etc.). Eventually, ECW staffers started reserving the best seats in the house for these fans. Five years after ECW shut down, their special status was still honored for the official ECW reunion show, ECW One Night Stand, as well as the unofficial one, Hardcore Homecoming. | |
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From the Warcraft and World of Warcraft series: Xaran Alamas, the owner of a large Warcraft III fansite back in the day and later the runner of a semi-official World of Warcraft "lore question and answers" thread at the fora. He is also reputedly a cyber-friend with Chris Metzen, the leader of the series' creative division. In WoW's second expansion pack, he got an NPC named after him. Not to mention Skosiris, the founder of THE site for any World of Warcraft information, Wowhead. He is well known enough for Blizzard to name an NPC after him. They got the race wrong (Skorisis' main is an Orc as opposed to the Blood Elf NPC), but admittedly a Blood Elf make better Loremasters... Same goes for Breanni, founder of a site categorizing minipets in WoW who also gets referenced ingame as a minipet vendor, and the NPC IS a gnome. Many other fans have received items named after them. As examples, Aldriana's Gloves of Secrecy are named for the famous rogue theory-crafter on the Elitist Jerks website, Phaedra's Vestments of the Sprouting Seed are named for a woman who ran a popular blog about resto druids (and who was pregnant at the time the item debuted), and Blockade's Lost Shield is named for a dwarf warrior on the Barthilas server with an infamously large collection of tier sets and shields. Ahab Wheathoof, a tauren farmer with a simple quest in Mulgore, was designed and voiced by Ezra Chatterton, who was brought to Blizzard's offices by the Make-A-Wish foundation. There's also Boubille, creator of MMO-Champion, the WoW news and data mining site where most people get their information on upcoming patches way before Blizzard ever announces anything, and it's also a great compilation of developer posts. |
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Likewise, Chris Doucette and inonibird both had their shares of fans for their respective Metal Gear Solid Quirky Miniboss Squad comics. Those who had never played the games read the comics and were surprised to see how little characterization both FOXHOUND and the Cobra Unit received when they played the games. | |
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A Don Martin strip in an issue of MAD showed Wayne Gretzky in a dentist's chair with his dentist informing him a tooth had to be removed. The next frame shows the dentist preparing to slap shot a puck at Mr. Gretzky's mouth. Wayne Gretzky wrote Mad, telling them that he was a long-time fan and actually requesting a poster-sized print of the strip to give to his dentist (whom he assured them used somewhat more modern techniques). It's one of the few Letters to the Editor that the Mad editorial staff didn't thoroughly mock when reprinted. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic: When Doug Walker made contact with Animaniacs creator Tom Ruegger, he was surprised to find out that Ruegger was a fan of Walker's own show. Within the TGWTG fandom itself, Rants, the admin of the TGWTG secrets blog has been making a name for himself. His popularity varies from person to person however. One fan named Erica is well-acquainted with the Nostalgia Critic team, with their Demo Reel Slash Fic being read by Doug and Uncle Yo. They're most well-known as the partial inspiration for Hyper Fangirl's character; see them interact with the team in cosplay here. For the later NC fandom, the most prominent Tumblr was ThatChickWithTheGifs, responsible for most of the reaction gifs circulated around the fandom before it shut down in 2018. The members of the show have used these gifs on their own social media accounts. |
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Schitt's Creek has a number of famous fans who have expressed their love of the show. Kelly Clarkson openly fangirls when the cast appears on her show. Paula Abdul and Will Arnett both posted about their love of the show and appeared in a post-series documentary about the show. Keith Urban tweeted creator Daniel Levy about his love of the show, and later his wife Nicole Kidman sought out the cast at an event so she could have pictures with them. Levy also wrote his own love of Mariah Carey into the show and was thrilled when she tweeted her support of it. | |
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Rei Hiroe (the author of Black Lagoon) has made Touhou doujin and fanart. | |
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While he was more associated with the Saturday morning cartoon and the comics based on them, Dan Drazen was a big name in Sonic the Hedgehog fandom for a while. He's also into Care Bears. Additionally, Jay Axer and Patrick "Spaz" Spaziante both were fans who ended up drawing for the Archie comics. Further, Ian Flynn was just a fan and now he's writing the Archie comic. Horror legend John Carpenter has also mentioned being a big fan, even mentioning liking Sonic Unleashed despite some people not liking certain parts of the game. |
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Cat Bountry for writing what could be the best and well-known fanfics in the fandom, including Respawn of the Dead. | |
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There are two in the Avatar: The Last Airbender fandom: "Megafan" Kimberly Miranda aka Isaia, one of the very first Avatar fan artists on DeviantArt. Her account now has over a million views and her artwork is often shown in magazines for the show. Her "It's Avatarded" satire comics are responsible for the Fan Community Nickname. Johane Matte aka Rufftoon, also on Deviant Art, earned one million pageviews in almost half the time that Isaia did. She was later hired as a storyboard artist for the show and provided illustrations for the Avatar-dedicated Nick Mag. The Legend of Korra has Korra Nation, a website where people vote for who they think the 'biggest' fans are. Most of the top scorers are Big Name Fans. |
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An early example can be found in The Flash books where Paul Gambi, tailor to the various Rogues of Central and Keystone City, is named after Paul Gambiccini who at the time was 14. Gambiccini hasn't ever rested on his laurels as since then he's gone on to be a noted author and academic. | |
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Brian R. James (known at one time as "Iakhovas" online) counts as one for the Forgotten Realms fandom, since the higher-ups at Wizards of the Coast were so impressed by his compilation of names, dates, and facts regarding the Realms into a 100-page PDF history tool that he was approached for permission and eventually tapped to have his work fleshed out, illustrated, and added to by numerous well-known writers including Eric Boyd, George Krashos, and Ed Greenwood himself to become the Grand History of the Realms. | |
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Also well known to BioWare's fandom, particularly the Mass Effect fanbase, is Holly Conrad. A costume maker and prop maker, Conrad started gaining notoriety when she and her studio, Crabcat Industries, showed off a series of Mass Effect cosplays at Comic-Con 2010. By that time a year later Conrad had been commissioned by Bioware to make costumes for their live broadcast during Comic-Con 2011, make props and costumes for Mass Effect 3's live-action trailer and she's become a symbol for FemShep within the fandom. Similarly, one of Crabcat's co-founders, Jessica Merizan, has since been hired by Bioware as the company's Community Manager. |
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Daredevil fan Kuljit Mithra, creator of the website Manwithoutfear.com. The site is considered the best archive of information on the comic book character, to the extent that writers of the Daredevil title routinely consult it for research, and Brian Michael Bendis thanked Mithra in the afterword of his last issue as a writer for Daredevil. Mithra & Manwithoutfear.com, along with Philipp Lenssen & Coverbrowser.com are given special thanks for providing the cover gallery at the end of Daredevil's 500th issue. | |
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SearchingLyoko, founder of Code Lyoko United and a well known member on Lyoko Freak and Code Lyoko Evolved, communicates with MoonScoop quite regularly and was quite possibly a major factor in the creation of Code Lyoko: Evolution. | |
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Scott Derrickson liked Watchmen so much that it's his favorite superhero movie and favorably compared it to Blade Runner. | |
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He even got a minor character in Gundam SEED named after him. And protagonist of G-Saviour is Mark Curran who has a sidekick call Simmons. |
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In The Lord of the Rings fandom, Michael Martinez is one of the most prolific scholars and trivia buffs, with several books and countless articles under his belt. (He is also, incidentally, the owner of a large Xena: Warrior Princess website as well.) Also Stephen Colbert who was invited to the filming of the Hobbit and beat the cast and crew in a Tolkien trivia contest. |
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Alessia Cara (of "Here" fame) can count among her fans none other than Taylor Swift, who eventually interviewed her for Yahoo Music. | |
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She also authored the original Star Trek Concordance that was the definitive reference work for many years. | |
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KaBlam! fans most likely will know Princess June (AKA Kablamoid96 or June the KaBlamoid), who created the most music videos on YouTube for the show, a fanfic writer, a fanart artist, and created the first message board for the show. She's one of the reasons why the cult following is getting bigger. Not to mention she knows Mo Willems, the creator of The Off-Beats. And of course, there's another fanfic/fanart KaBlamoid who all the fans should know... KaBlamoid4Life! |
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Tehnoobshow, who started out with a few videos about a stereotypical noob, eventually became this to Runescape, even being commissioned by Jagex to work on the videos to open their machinima contests. | |
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"Archaic" (real name Liam Pomfret) is webmaster of the other big-name Pokémon site, Bulbagarden.net. He's one of the oldest BNFs in the fandom, having first made a name for himself back in 2000-2002, primarily as a leader or spokesman for the Pokémon shippers community (which got him top billing for Ship-to-Ship Combat here); a role in which he managed to turn the entire staff of Pokémasters, then one of the major forums, against shippers. He later worked for Serebii as his right hand man, but left to (re)establish Bulbagarden, incidentally creating a conflict between the two communities that is still ongoing many years later. The initial relaunch of Bulbagarden is most charitably described as achieving somewhat underwhelming results, but after several years of the website struggling, Archaic added a wiki to the site, which quickly grew into Bulbapedia; he later led the effort to expand into the collaborative Nintendo wiki network NIWA. | |
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Despite his overall disgust with the modern Light Novel industry, Tappei Nagatsuki, the creator of Re:Zero, is a massive fan of Mushoku Tensei, to the point of creating both a congratulation letter to the author of the latter, and a special crossover oneshot collaboration between both novels as well, as a celebration of the announcement of the anime adaption of Mushoku Tensei. | |
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Ross O'Donovan of Game Grumps has fond memories of watching Blinky Bill and Li'l Elvis Jones and the Truckstoppers as a child and recommends both series to Barry in an episode of Grumpcade. | |
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ReBoot forum There are a few members who are in on the entire plot of the revival webcomic and/or regularly correspond with higher-ups among the revival. The comic's writer himself is also a member, and regularly interacts with the members to get their input. | |
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To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee was flattered by her (and her novel's) mentions in Bloom County. Creator Berke Breathed maintained a written correspondence with her for a while, and made a strip in her honor when she died. | |
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Perhaps the biggest Big Name Fan in Professional Wrestling, however, is Dave Meltzer, author and publisher of the The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the original Smart Mark newsletter. Others include Wade Keller (of the Pro Wrestling Torch, another popular newsletter), Bob Ryder (who made the transition from BNF to wrestling insider when he took a job with WCW), Scott Keith, Christopher Robin Zimmerman, and Chris Hyatte. Unlike most other entertainment companies, wrestling promotions (with the exceptions of the aforementioned ECW and Ring of Honor) tend to hate those BNFs who write on the subject with a passion, since they have a distinct tendency to pull back the curtain on Kayfabe (the late promoter Herb Abrams went so far as to feature a wrestler named Davey "The Observer" Meltzer on his UWF tv program; needless to say, "Meltzer" suffered defeat and humiliation). RD Reynolds and Blade Braxton of WrestleCrap also have a fairly large online following, although both have been involved in independent pro wrestling, and they also tend to take a comically self-deprecating view of their importance as BNFs (Blade's insistence that he had a brief affair with Amy "Lita" Dumas after meeting her once at a car show, for example). Finally, there are Bill And Doug (AKA RVDTito4Life of YouTube fame, and rival of Kent Jones), who were hired by TNA to become the hosts of the online show, TNA Addicts. |
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Alan Harnum is considered the writer of Revolutionary Girl Utena fanfiction. His unfinished opus is almost considered required reading in Utena fandom. On top of fanfiction he also contributed to the fandom in many notable ways. He was the one who used to host the Utena Fanfiction Repository. Giovanna and Yasha of Empty Movement have a forum that was popular with fans before the rise of microblogging platforms. |
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The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius has Mara S (or acaciathorn, if you want to use her deviantart account handle). She founded and currently runs the longest-running JN fansite on the net. Plus, she wrote a truly incredible, book-length fanfiction called 'The Other Side Of Tomorrow', complete with chapter illustrations and its own fandom. If you've participated in any JN fandom on the net, chances are you've run into Mara or her works at some point. | |
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Daria has a few, including Kara Wild who actually managed to score interviews with showrunners Glenn Eichler & Anne Bernstein. Novelist and Dungeons & Dragons game designer Roger E. "The Angst Guy" Moore is also a major fixture within the fandom and is (in)famous for creating some of the most competently written & heart wrenching Dark Fic known to man. | |
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One fan named Erica is well-acquainted with the Nostalgia Critic team, with their Demo Reel Slash Fic being read by Doug and Uncle Yo. They're most well-known as the partial inspiration for Hyper Fangirl's character; see them interact with the team in cosplay here. | |
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Cow and Chicken has John Kricfalusi, The Golden Age of Animation purist, whereas some people have attempted to see the series as a blatant ripoff of his show The Ren & Stimpy Show, John seems to really like the show. John also really likes Yogi Bear, so much so in fact he did his own take on it with 3 shorts in the '90s. |
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The crew of the fan produced web series Star Trek: New Voyages, who not only have props from the original show in their own set but have had appearances from multiple former cast members of the original series, with Walter Koenig and George Takei playing major roles in two of their episodes (playing aged versions of their own characters.) More recently joining the ranks is voice actor Vic Mignogna, who guest-starred and -directed in New Voyages and squee'd about it during his guest appearances at anime cons. And now he's doing his own series, Star Trek Continues. The Kirk/Spock fandom itself has a few: Killashandra (aka Killa or Killabeez) — wrote some of the most beautiful fic ever written on the pairing, as well as the ship manifesto for the same. Her story "Surrender" is considered the finest exploration of D/s and dubcon in the fandom, and "Turning Point" was the first K/S fanfic ever posted online. Diane Marchant — wrote the very first K/S fanfic, "A Fragment Out of Time". (Note that this was not only the very first K/S fic but the very first Slash Fic, published in 1974.) Leslie Fish — wrote the second ever K/S fanfic, "Shelter", which likely inspired the "Kirk and Spock in a cave" cliche. She's also quite well known for her Filk Songs. Brittany Diamond — aka "suicidallyreckless" on Tumblr and nicknamed "Captain". Rose to prominence during the 2009 post-movie boom, and has created The Ship's Closet, a vidcast analyzing Kirk/Spock, as well as the Analyzation/Commentary, which does the same thing only in writing. She's a bit bemused by her status, amusingly enough. |
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The Elder Scrolls: Dave Humphrey is the the creator of the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages, the first and foremost wiki for all things Elder Scrolls. Lady Nerevar is admin of The Imperial Library, a site dedicated to the discussion and preservation of the series' lore, as well as the fiancee of former series writer Michael Kirkbride. Shirley Curry, a popular Youtuber in her 80s that does Let's Play videos of Skyrim. Zaric Zhakaron posts his intriguing, detailed videos on the franchise (and on Bethesda games in general). |
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Elio and Linda, the owners of Westeros.org are this for the A Song of Ice and Fire fandom, and actually help GRRM with keeping details straight. | |
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DeviantArtist JustinandDennis (J&D) is well-known amongst the members of the small-but-dedicated PB&J Otter fandom. He is responsible for creating several fan characters/OCs and has even created some of the show's Fanon such as backstories, and also wrote some Transformation Fiction for the series (who's human characters/"TF victims" would later become Ascended Extras in his original work). He is also active in other fandoms such as the Blazing Dragons fandom. | |
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Some Western celebrities that One Piece can count as fans include Jamie Lee Curtis, Avril Lavigne, Steven Adams (of the Oklahoma City Thunder), Masi Oka, and Zara Larrson. Even John Boyega is a longtime fan of One Piece. | |
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The Pokémon fandom is pretty much split into three, and accordingly the heads of said ways are Big Name Fans: "Serebii" (real name Joe Merrick, ironically provided by a page about him on rival Bulbapedia. No relation to aintitcool's Joeseph Merrick as far as we know) hosts one of the two most well-known Pokémon sites, the self-titled Serebii.net, and has been known to appear on other Pokémon-related forums, as well as on Star Trek-related forums under the name of Captain Joe. His attitude regarding other Pokémon websites and a few allegations of plagiarism (though unsubstantiated in recent years), bullying and looking to pick fights (even with other fandoms!) have given him his own personal Broken Base amongst Pokémon fans. His animosity with Bulbagarden and PokéBeach in particular is near-legendary, though he still frequents both sites. If you need another example of his reputation in the fandom, keep in mind that the Official Nintendo Magazine (the UK one) nearly always uses Serebii.net as a source for their Pokemon news. Serebii/Joe Merrick himself also often ends up writing for said magazine, so you've got a situation where a fan is well known enough that the official media for the company uses his work as a source themselves. "Archaic" (real name Liam Pomfret) is webmaster of the other big-name Pokémon site, Bulbagarden.net. He's one of the oldest BNFs in the fandom, having first made a name for himself back in 2000-2002, primarily as a leader or spokesman for the Pokémon shippers community (which got him top billing for Ship-to-Ship Combat here); a role in which he managed to turn the entire staff of Pokémasters, then one of the major forums, against shippers. He later worked for Serebii as his right hand man, but left to (re)establish Bulbagarden, incidentally creating a conflict between the two communities that is still ongoing many years later. The initial relaunch of Bulbagarden is most charitably described as achieving somewhat underwhelming results, but after several years of the website struggling, Archaic added a wiki to the site, which quickly grew into Bulbapedia; he later led the effort to expand into the collaborative Nintendo wiki network NIWA. "Water Pokémon Master" (real name Jon Sahagian; thanks to Wikipedia for this info) of TCG website PokéBeach.com is another well-known website in the fan community. His devotion to the franchise has allowed him to interview the previous director of the Pokémonanime, Masamitsu Hidaka, and he is the only foreigner to have seen an early screening of the 12th Pokémon movie in Japan. His site has also been featured in several TCG magazines around the world. He is known to be in contact with internal Pokémon officials, even to the point where he can pick up the phone and call them to confirm rumors and stories. He is also a little infamous with some people at The Pokémon Company International for posting early scans of TCG sets several weeks before they are released. |
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HENDRIX, originally known as Dinosaur Man, is a highly influential figure who has become known for his programming and scripting in recent years, though he was initially known as simply being a particularly talented designer. He was one of the pioneers of using Blender to create new models and later animations for the game, and created not only multiple popular solo project releases, but an entire user expansion in his own, as well as being a pivotal figure in both the Radical Remake and Cretaceous Calamity user projects. He later made a script to generate Zoo Tycoon 2 models as Zoo Tycoon 1 animals, and after fifteen years, created the long-desired script to allow importing edited models into Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis. | |
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James Rolfe, aka The Angry Video Game Nerd, is practically a celebrity in the online movies and video games fandom. | |
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Since not long after it was announced and released, the Jurassic World: Evolution fandom has been dominated by YouTuber Best In Slot, who covered the game's development frequently on his YouTube Channel in addition to videos covering various skins and features after release. His videos have become ubiquitous in the community that reactions to new features often illicit calls of excitement towards his videos on the subject. This also happened to Steamblust, a user who posted a variety of photoshopped images to Reddit depicting species not in the game, often using their appearances in other Jurassic Park media as a basis, such as the Troodon and Herrarasaurus from Jurassic Park: The Game to the Carchardotonosaurus from Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis as well as fully original creations; he eventually added watermarks to his images due to people using them in videos and reposting them without permission. He has since even produced skins that work within the PC version. There are often many calls for the developers to follow him for inspiration. |
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This also happened to Steamblust, a user who posted a variety of photoshopped images to Reddit depicting species not in the game, often using their appearances in other Jurassic Park media as a basis, such as the Troodon and Herrarasaurus from Jurassic Park: The Game to the Carchardotonosaurus from Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis as well as fully original creations; he eventually added watermarks to his images due to people using them in videos and reposting them without permission. He has since even produced skins that work within the PC version. There are often many calls for the developers to follow him for inspiration. | |
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DeceasedCrab is well known for his Lets Plays of La-Mulana, to the point that he was on the special thanks credits of the remake. | |
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Gigguk is one popular anime reviewer. | |
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Slifertheskydragon is considered by most fans to be the best and most prolific artist in the Yu-Gi-Oh! fandom. She also hosts fan activities, fan panels and is on first name basis with most of the Japanese and English production staff. In March 2011, a card signed by Slifertheskydragon sold on ebay for 750 dollars in a charity auction. |
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Uber Haxor Nova has several BNFs, up to and including Jim Bonacci (creator of Happy Wheels) and even Notch, the man responsible for Minecraft. | |
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Derrick Bang has held this role in the Peanuts fandom since the early '90s. After amassing a complete collection of strips by going through microfilms of old newspapers, he wrote a lengthy FAQ for the Peanuts newsgroup, then expanded that into a website and a book (50 Years of Happiness), both with the cooperation of Charles M. Schulz himself. Since then he's written several other Peanuts-related books and does freelance work for the Schulz organization. | |
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Jae, the guy who ran what was the only English language Dragon Gate website, was enlisted by the promotion to help set up their first tour of the United States. In an interview, he told a short story about how CIMA, the promotion's top draw, called him at 2 a.m. one night. | |
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Invader Zim: According to the DVD Commentary, Harlan Ellison was a fan of the show and personally requested that Nickelodeon send him tapes of it. Rebecca Sugar was a huge fan of the series as a teenager, writing various pieces of fan fiction for it. She would even come to loosely base the character of Peridot in Steven Universe on Zim, from their Small Name, Big Ego to the utter lack of respect they got from their very tall superiors. |
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On a more traditional level, there's Benjamin "Katon" Carignan, one of the masterminds between three well-renowned fan radio plays and is the most consistently popular radio DJ for STARMEN.net's internet radio station, Radio PSI. He is one of the few BNFs that is incredibly humble about his popularity and is often surprised at the reactions he gets after contacting people. | |
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The Blazing Dragons fandom has French DeviantArtist Benthehyena. Her most notable contribution to the fandom is co-creating the #BDRevolution campaign with Season 2 story editor Erika Strobel. | |
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Kappa Mikey fans know of Lizzy Silvas, aka Kappa Lizzy who was actually drawn into an episode of Kappa Mikey from winning a fan contest and did her own voice-over. She attended conventions and even inspired other fans to nickname themselves. Kappa Lizzy is also well known by SEGA for playing the Sonic The Hedgehog video games, watching the shows & reading the comics during her years of recovering from a brain tumor when she was a child. | |
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Another Big Transformers Fan might be Chris Ho, AKA Internet Personality Vangelus, having served as the voice of Transformers: TransTech Shockwave and having fan art drawn of him by Derrick J. Wyatt. | |
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Most Danny Phantom fans are aware of NeoYi. What most people know her for is her excellent fan comic Chess Piece but really, it's nearly impossible to explore the fandom (specifically on DeviantArt) without learning about her eventually. Others include Firefury Amahira, Tavalya Ra, The Alchemist's Muse and Esme Phantom, all of which are very well known around the community. | |
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Team Fortress 2 is a perfect example of this trope. It went from a Quake mod to one of the premier "Steam" titles in the Orange Box collection. Within the game, a few high quality player-made maps have been honorarily canonized as official. Also in the Team Fortress 2 fandom are fans known for producing high-quality fanwork. Among them: Chemical Alia for her work on the Female Medic and Heavy reskins. Makani for designing what eventually became the official design for the Administrator. Cat Bountry for writing what could be the best and well-known fanfics in the fandom, including Respawn of the Dead. This was turned into Promoted Fanboy when Cat Bountry got the opportunity to write one of the official Team Fortress 2 comics. |
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And don't forget Amit Bhaumik. He was the webmaster of an extensive, detailed and now defunct Power Rangers information database called the "Online Archives". He was one mind behind the (in)famous Scorpion Rain hoax. He became story editor of Wild Force and worked on that season's two crossover eps. He also worked as a "consultant" on Power Rangers (Super) Samurai, and co-wrote two of the series clip shows. Unfortunately, Chris Funaro revealed that the two had had a bitter falling out (Amit understandably loves Samurai, Chris does not) | |
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Minecraft has SethBling, one of the more known abusers of the in-game wiring system. He is quite popular with the developers, too. | |
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In Achron, Shadowfury333 fills this role. He's become a sort of unoffocial game commentator, casting replays and live games, as well as making a large number of maps and special additions (such as observers) through modding the game. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has Shaun Scotellaro (more commonly known as Sethisto), who runs one of the biggest fandom hub websites tied to the show: Equestria Daily. The site is notable enough that it's received exclusive content from The Hub (the Equestria Girls advert), and Sethisto has been interviewed for Wired's article about the show. Other well-known people are the co-moderators of Equestria Daily, such as Cereal Velocity, Phoe, and Calpain. Authors are fairly well-known too, such as Kkat, the author of the (literally) epic-length fanfic, Fallout: Equestria. There's also The Smiling Pony, who (along with an entire team of moderators) runs Derpibooru, the largest and most well known pony imageboard on the net. There's also BaldDumboRat, who (at least when it comes to fanon) is considered THE voice for Derpy Hooves. John De Lancie, after voicing Discord in the Season 2 premiere, has become one and eventually made a documentary to put a positive spin on the Brony fandom after seeing how disrespectfully the national news portrays them. The Living Tombstone, Wooden Toaster, and many other Brony musicians are world-famous for what they do. You won't go far into that fanbase without hearing the names Egophiliac, John Joseco, Kloudmutt, Braeburned, Pixelkitties, or Atrylnote To name a few, all of whom are very well known fan artists (some of whom do NSFW stuff so tread carefully) who have contributed thousands of pieces of artwork, are known by cast and crew members, and are responsible for a number of memes and Fanon. Then there's Wild Fire, an alias of MLP storyboard artist Sabrina Alberghetti, and Mandopony, a fan musician. The two met, began dating regularly, and formally announced their engagement in January 2015. They even run a shared Tumblr account, available here. And then there's MLP Analysis, essentially becoming the Channel Awesome of the Brony Community. Well-known members include, but are not limited to, Joshscorcher, Silver Quill, and I Love Kim Possible A Lot. |
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The most famous fan of Doctor Who is Queen Elizabeth II. Fans don't get much more big-name than that. | |
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YouTuber McKenzie Atwood (better known as MKatwood) has done many things for the Steven Universe fandom. She's the creator of many meme compilation videos of the show, including Pearl's Secret Rap Career. The last installment of the series features Pearl's voice actress Deedee Magno-Hall, and has been acknowledged by Michaela Dietz (Amethyst) and Shelby Rabara (Peridot). She is friends with Deedee Magno-Hall and Zach Callison (Steven), and later became an intern at Cartoon Network before becoming host of the show's official podcast. | |
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In the words of Nuttymadam3575: UHHMAAAAAZING BOOOOOOOOOOOOK! | |
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At least among the Marauders Era fanbase, The Shoebox Project is often accepted as the definitive fanfiction for the four friends. The writers, LiveJournal users ladyjaida and dorkorific are respected and revered among the fandom. ladyjaida, real name Jaida Jones, moved on to cowrite the book Havemercy. And now she has her own fandom. Ninety percent of Havemercy fangirls started as Shoebox fangirls, and they're an insanely loyal bunch. |
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Among the fans of Birdy the Mighty is director Zack Snyder, who cited it as an influence for a sequence in Man of Steel, which is generally believed to be the fight between Birdy and Nataru at the end of Decode's second season inspiring the Superman/Zod fight at the end of Man of Steel. | |
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In Fall from Heaven, Magister Cultuum fills this role, to the point of having a Great Sage named after him, an being quickly know to everyone on the Forums. | |
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Many designers become BNF's in the Zoo Tycoon communities during periods of high productivity in modding and gradually become lost in the shuffle when their work is superseded by later designers; the most enduring names have usually been those who pioneered new capabilities, especially with modeling software. HENDRIX, originally known as Dinosaur Man, is a highly influential figure who has become known for his programming and scripting in recent years, though he was initially known as simply being a particularly talented designer. He was one of the pioneers of using Blender to create new models and later animations for the game, and created not only multiple popular solo project releases, but an entire user expansion in his own, as well as being a pivotal figure in both the Radical Remake and Cretaceous Calamity user projects. He later made a script to generate Zoo Tycoon 2 models as Zoo Tycoon 1 animals, and after fifteen years, created the long-desired script to allow importing edited models into Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis. Although the designer Legosith is not quite as well-known in the community, he is also a BNF within the community for being the first to create a fully new biome, representing the deep sea Abyss, after five years of failed attempts to do so by senior designers in the community. (This was his first public project.) He also was the first to create new animations for the game, allowing flying birds, and was key to creating the first XL map for Cretaceous Calamity. |
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Chugga also has an unusually bilateral example of this in the case of Jaiden Animations, as both content creators are subscribed to one another and follow each other on Twitter. | |
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My Brother, My Brother and Me: Fans who frequently submit Yahoo Answers for Griffin to read on the show get shout-outs and credits from the boys. The most prolific of these get into Big Name Fan territory, typically denoted by them getting their own little Running Gag Phrase Catcher. There's Rachel Rosing ("Game recognize game"), Zoe Kinsky ("Climbing that ladder!"), Jacob Locker ("Coming out of retirement!"), Ira Wray ("Are you Ira Wray?" "Who wants to know?"), and the undisputed king of them all, Level 9000 Yadrew Drewydd Drew Davenport. Drew Davenport's fame spilled over into the McElroy Brothers' other podcast, The Adventure Zone: Balance, where he was the namesake for Davenport, the gnome butler and intrepid interdimensional starship captain. |
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Ai no Kusabi has Kira Takenouchi know for her Taming Riki fan fiction and other original yaoi works. | |
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Producer David Eick, during commentary on his later show Battlestar Galactica, while not mentioning names specifically, reflected back on the Xena years, and explained that at the time in the mid-1990s, "fan reaction from the Internet" was a very new thing. The show's staff got very excited about going online and reading the real-time reactions of fans. The problem was, because this was so new and shiny to them, they had no real concept of how to contextualize or frame what they were reading: internet fans are the most obsessive, and you kind of need to read through a lot of it, or "professional reviews" to get even a basic feel of what the "reaction" was. But because "the Internet" was so new at the time, they'd basically just go online and read through major fanfiction hubs without much of a sense of "cognitive dissonance" like "maybe these are just obsessed niche fans". As Eick explained, in the later seasons this resulted in them pandering on a massive scale, doing all sorts of things the online fans they encountered suggested... And it actually turned a lot of the casual viewers away. It's open to interpretation how "good" these episodes were, but they really weren't as "accessible." | |
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In Dota 2, Cyborg Matt is famous for his analysis of patches and support of the Dota 2 community, to the extent that some theorize he is the game's mysterious developer, IceFrog. | |
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Jack Lusted was once just a guy modding Rome: Total War. But after developing such greatly successful and popular - not to mention large-scale - mods such as Terra Expugnandae, Late Romans and Lands to Conquer (for Medieval 2 Total War), he was hired by Creative Assembly in 2007, and these days calls most of the shots on upcoming Total War games as Project Lead. | |
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For some years, M.J. Simpson was the leading expert and go-to guy on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Douglas Adams generally, but hated the movie so much that he became disillusioned and refused to do it anymore. | |
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Katie G, who runs the Hell's Kitchen Facebook community "Hell's Kitchen Underground", has personally met with and interviewed several of the contestants on the show, and Gordon Ramsay himself himself has retweeted her Youtube videos. One of the contestants,Barret, even temporarily took over "Underground" after Katie's mom (who appeared in some of Katie's interviews with the contestants) unexpectedly passed away. | |
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Though his name value isn't immediately recognized in the South Park fandom, Willie "Big-Will" Westwood is the creator of the South Park Scriptorium fansite, which has remained consistently updated since the show's first season; his transcriptions of episodes of the series since its first season are authoritative, and was recognized by the show's animators and creators in its early years; the scripts were also as a basis for the script project at the main fan wiki; he has been the sole active moderator at the official South Park Studios message board for well over a decade as well. | |
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Warrior Cats: Blizzardclaw (or "Blizz"), owner of Warrior's Wish, one of the most famous fansites of the series. She has been personally invited to two events by the author/editor of the series by name, once via the series' official e-mail newsletter. Vicky also wrote her as a character named Blizzardstar, leader of ShadowClan (Blizz' favorite Clan), in Code of the Clans. Su Susann, a fan on Vicky's Facebook page who often answered questions for other fans, was given access as one of the page admins, and who Vicky has given permission to post things on her behalf (such as revealing names of otherwise unnamed characters). Unfortunately has a bit of a Broken Base due to creating some Original Characters and resulting arguments as to whether they were canon (Word of God confirmed that they weren't and that it was just intended to be for fun), to the point that her hatedom even had reported her Facebook account enough for it to be temporarily banned. The Poole family, aka FarDrivingClan. They made a point of seeing Vicky on every one of her US tours, even if it meant driving across several states to see her, and were therefore featured in her tour diaries often, and over time she became good friends with them. She named the Omen of the Stars main character Ivypool after the then-infant of the family, Ivy, and her announcement about a studio acquiring movie rights was a video that included Ivy. |
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The Legend of Korra has Korra Nation, a website where people vote for who they think the 'biggest' fans are. Most of the top scorers are Big Name Fans. | |
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Portal also has Waffles, or Waffleguppies, author of the famous fanfic Blue Sky, a super-popular work that has its own trope page and a dedicated circle of fans. | |
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Touhou: KirbyM too, owner of Walfas, a Touhou-related site. Worked on Maikaze's Touhou anime, although that too was fanmade... IOSYS, makers of some of the most notable song remixes. Rei Hiroe (the author of Black Lagoon) has made Touhou doujin and fanart. |
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Plenty of Freedom Planet fans have at least heard of Fladervy, one of the most notable speedrunners in the community. His runs of Lilac and especially Milla have exploited the game's physics so extensively he tends to top the leaderboards for the game. He's been invited to many Games Done Quick events to show off the game, even the game's creator Strife has expressed his approval many times. To a slightly lesser extent, there's Succinct and Punchy and johannhowitzer. They've all received favorable Tweats from the creator and voice actors. | |
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In the early to mid-nineties, a fair number of famous and semi-famous Doom mapmakers wound up being engaged as official level designers for actual developers. The first was Tim Willits, Doom enthusiast and mapmaker assimilated by id in the mid-nineties, his most notable work being The Ultimate Doom, Doom 3 and the entire Quake series. He later ascended even further to become the lead designer and current co-owner of the company. | |
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Mark Simmons, maintainer of the now-defunct Gundam Project website, ended up getting hired to assist with the English-language adaptation of Mobile Suit Gundam. He even got a minor character in Gundam SEED named after him. And protagonist of G-Saviour is Mark Curran who has a sidekick call Simmons. Of similar note is his occasional work partner, Keith Rhee. Rhee originally started the Gundam Project site and later maintained Bandai's own Gundam Official site for a number of years. |
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In Sky Williams' second AMA video, he asked his opinion on Dunkey. He called himself a fan and said he'd like to collab with him. The two have since started playing together and appeared in each other's videos. | |
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Of note in the EarthBound fandom is Clyde "Tomato" Mandelin, a professional translator working for Funimation and lead/sole translator of the Mother 3 and MOTHER 1+2 Fan Translation projects, getting lots of love from both fans and the game industry for his virtually Herculean efforts in the case of the former. He's also a big name in the fan translation "scene" in general, having worked on high-profile projects like Bahamut Lagoon and Star Ocean, and has been mentioned by famed translator Ted Woolsey in an interview. These days, he runs Videogame/EarthBound Central, a personal blog dedicated to exploring the minutiae of EarthBound, new finds in the games, developments for the series, theorising about why everyone's so reluctant to rerelease them, translation changes, and occasionally talking about what creator Shigeru Miyamoto/Shigesato Itoi is up to these days, and Legends of Localization, a site that looks at changes made while bringing other games from Japan to English speaking regions, occasionally the other way around, and sometimes other combinations of "from" and "to" regions. On a more traditional level, there's Benjamin "Katon" Carignan, one of the masterminds between three well-renowned fan radio plays and is the most consistently popular radio DJ for STARMEN.net's internet radio station, Radio PSI. He is one of the few BNFs that is incredibly humble about his popularity and is often surprised at the reactions he gets after contacting people. |
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Zan Sidera (or just Zan) is the number #1 public figure for the Mega Man series; known for his extensive canonical knowledge, keen analysis and immense dedication. For example, he built extremely detailed and comprehensive timelines for EVERY Mega Man game there is to date. Some of the more well-read and complete timelines involve the the Zero series, the X series and the Legend Series. Obviously, the timelines are not spoiler-friendly. Also while they are not as known as him, there are Robert Oakes (Oakie), Hypershell and Marshmellow Man, with which Zan often discuss over the facts. Marshmellow Man himself can read Japanese and provided Zan Sidera and the fanbase with information, which would have been exclusively for the Japanese. |
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Nisekoi has Y-san from Chiba Prefecture, Marika's biggest supporter. His feats include putting Marika on top of the popularity polls, sending gifts to the author for her and actually placing on the popularity polls. The epilogue even has Marika just about to encounter a "man from Chiba", strongly implied to be him. | |
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Code Lyoko: Thunderbird3, or TB3, is apparently on speaking terms with the creators and even made a documentary with interviews of the cast and crew. For the fairly small English-speaking fanbase, this was a big thing. SearchingLyoko, founder of Code Lyoko United and a well known member on Lyoko Freak and Code Lyoko Evolved, communicates with MoonScoop quite regularly and was quite possibly a major factor in the creation of Code Lyoko: Evolution. |
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"mossbag" is well-known in the Hollow Knight community for his in-depth and comprehensive lore analysis videos, sometimes incorporating memes to balance comedy and seriousness (In fact, some of the memes in the community originate from his videos). Whenever a new fan wants to learn more about the game's lore, veterans usually recommend watching mossbag's videos. | |
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ladyjaida, real name Jaida Jones, moved on to cowrite the book Havemercy. And now she has her own fandom. Ninety percent of Havemercy fangirls started as Shoebox fangirls, and they're an insanely loyal bunch. | |
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Sakky, Sakura, or Sailor Astera is probably one of the more well-known fan character creators in the Sailor Moon fandom. Usagi Kou is more well-known. Though not necessarily for good reasons. Ian Miller is known as the idol of purists everywhere for doing in-depth research about what the canon terminology is supposed to be. Oh, and having a thing for collecting fanart of Hotaru in a bikini. |
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The Phantom of the Opera fan Christine Daaé is now largely known for having legally changed her name to that of the show's heroine, but in the 1990s ran an international fanzine and founded most of the early Phantom discussion forums on the internet, including Phantom of the Opera.com She has represented the fandom on radio, television, and in the press. Her public dislike of Andrew Lloyd Webber sometimes made her a controversial figure. She has refused to confirm or deny rumors of relationships with two The Phantom of the Opera actors. | |
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Several Transformers fans had Shout Outs made to them in Beast Wars, but the most famous must be Ben Yee, a Transformers site owner who actually was given credits props as a consultant on the show. Another Big Transformers Fan might be Chris Ho, AKA Internet Personality Vangelus, having served as the voice of Transformers: TransTech Shockwave and having fan art drawn of him by Derrick J. Wyatt. Monzo also deserves mention, having helped Hasbro determine the copyright status of several Transformer-names. His name appears as Universe Onslaught's serial number, along with his birth date. |
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Heidi "Lady Niko" Rekell has been the unofficial administrator, and "go to" person for Galaxy Rangers. She worked closely with Koch when it came to the DVD release. | |
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In the Free! fandom there's textsfromgayswimmers and the duo of Octopimp and SparkyTheAndroid, the creators of the successful Abridged Series 50% OFF. In fact, the latter's work became so well known that their parody's been referenced by a fan in Japan during Nagisa's birthday, and even by Greg Aryes, the dub voice of Nagisa! |
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Gravity Falls has a dedicated fandom - The Fallers- and the most well known faller is certainly Adam Warrock. Adam was already quite famous online because of the rap songs he created and uploaded to YouTube. When he made a rap about Gravity Falls using the theme song as the beat, the video became so popular in the fandom, to the point the show's creator tweeted him and called him "the greatest man who ever lived". Now Adam, among with another fan, Chris Haley, hosts a podcast about the show, "The Gravity Falls Gossiper," in which the show's creator has already guest starred. Also among the show's fanbase is director Guillermo del Toro. There's also Moringmark a.k.a. Markmak who were known as one of the most influential Gravity Falls fan-artist. He's also becoming a BNF in the Star vs. The Forces of Evil fandom, as he creates a fancomic named Ship War AU. |
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Andi Mack has Sadie Anne Rue, who organized a popular project that involved sending 1,000 paper cranes to Disney Channel Headquarters to save the show. While the show wasn't renewed, the cranes were loved by the cast and crew. | |
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Anyone who is a devoted fan of The Muppets will know the names Ryan Dosier of The Muppet Mindset and Joe Hennes and Ryan Roe of ToughPigs. In fact, they are such big name fans, Disney even used blurbs from their reviews of Muppets Most Wanted in one of their official promos. | |
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Anthony Burch from Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'? was offered, and accepted, a job a Gearbox because of how funny Hey Ash was. | |
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