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Fandom VIP

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Fandom VIP	comment	A Fandom VIP 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 they created a fan website that has become the source for information on Star Wars. Maybe they created a Star Wars Fanfic or another 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 hyperactive monkey.note Most VIPs are known for more positive things. Regardless, everyone in the fandom now knows their name... or at least their Internet handle. This can get a little weird for some VIPs, 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 a Fandom VIP and just a 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 VIP goes out the window. The recognition is great, but remember that Celebrity Is Overrated: VIPs 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 VIPs 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). In other parts of the net, this is known as a Big Name Fan. However, it is not to be confused with a Big Name / Important Person who turns out to be a Fan — otherwise known as One of Us. If a person in-universe is a member of a real fandom, that's Fictional Fan, Real Celebrity. Can cause them to become a Promoted Fanboy. Not to be confused with High-Class Fan, which refers to a hand fan used to indicate a character's high status or wealth.
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Fandom VIP / int_109f7814	comment	For the Sherlock fandom, we have Angrybeige.
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Fandom VIP / int_19fab891	comment	Kerron Stark has been an avid Barney fan since childhood and did amateur performances of the character in his teens. He is very active in the fanbase as he is a moderator-turned-admin in Barney History Fans, stars in his own show, Mister K's Clubhouse and performed a cover of the Barney's Great Adventure version of "I Love You" for his album "Echoes of Influence".
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Fandom VIP / int_1a1a594f	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_1a4b3ea2	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_1f2edb72	comment	Toontown Online Toontown Rewritten lead Joey Ziolkowski holds an in-person ToonFest every year, where one of the venue's traditions is to have staff from the original game answer fan questions. On the side of Rewritten and Toontown: Corporate Clash themselves, Ugly Corny hosts a page providing Content Packs, which are texture and music mods provided by the community, for free. Both Rewritten and Corporate Clash accept Content Pack creators as official partners.
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Fandom VIP / int_2118f461	comment	Inai Inai Baa! has Xu Jiawei, the admin of the wiki for the show. She has auditioned for the Chinese version of the show, appeared in a stage show based on said version twice, and met the Chinese oneesan Xiaoyi. She is a major fan of the 2003-2007 onee-san Fuuka and often wears a costume resembling hers. Western fans may have heard of otomodachifan. He collects various Inai Inai Baa! merchandise and DVDs and has even talked to Kotomi Kuga, the 2007-2011 oneesan, via Twitter.
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Fandom VIP / int_216687f0	comment	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 Fans of Max have created custom mods to make him a skin for playable characters in several games. He's even received a voice mod for the Troubleshooter in DNF Duel, who already has a colour palette that fits him perfectly. His biggest tribute is in Naraka Bladepoint, which also includes Benny the dog, his late best friend and co-star in many of his videos.
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Fandom VIP / int_22147342	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_22ead7f6	comment	And then there's MLP Analysis, essentially becoming the Channel Awesome of the Brony Community. Well-known members include, but are not limited to, Josh Scorcher, Silver Quill, and I Love Kim Possible A Lot.
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Fandom VIP / int_28c6afce	comment	Thomas & Friends: Matt Michaud, better known as Enterprisingengine93 is one of the most recognized fanwork creators. He has an acclaimed series called Enterprising Engines. Mattel even hired him to direct the Thomas Creator Collective. Michael White, also known as WhitehouseFilms, is a fan of the show who knew Andrew Brenner personally. Andrew Brenner invited him to work on the series, and White ended up writing several episodes for seasons 22-24. The Unlucky Tug is renowned for his in-depth video analyses on the show and its characters. DieselD199 is perhaps the most famous content creator, with his TOMICA Thomas & Friends series having amassed 700 million views. The Sodor Island Fansite is a comprehensive fansite about the show and its lore, and have even interviewed several Thomas staff members.
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Fandom VIP / int_291e9857	comment	The Dark Souls community has several over the series' lifespan: 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 was a notorious DS1 "memelord" famous for comedic PvP montages and builds and popularized the "Giant Dad" build, and Iron Pineapple gained traction in the DS3 era for PvP shenanigans and "Soulslike" games. Limit Breakers is well known for his analysis videos of obscure and occasionally useless mechanics in the Souls series.
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Fandom VIP / int_2a8943c0	comment	Miraculous Ladybug: 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. Tumblr user Seasonofthegeek is well known for her fic content for the fandom, which is both numerous and well-written. She also takes part in fandom discussions and creates art for the show.
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Fandom VIP / int_2cee002d	comment	Meet the Robinsons: Elena and Olivia Ceballos, twins behind the account "ELIOLI Art", are huge in the fandom, and it is guaranteed that you'll come across their copious amount of fanart for the movie.
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Fandom VIP / int_2d940749	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_2ffcbd43	comment	Fire Emblem: VincentASM is best known as the 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. There's also japanbrowser441, who is famous for making a very large number of commissions of Sophia (a character from Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade) and putting her back on the map as a result. It's often concluded half-jokingly that he's either rich or spending his lottery money, because as of March 2021 he's been making them for over half a year at least and shows no signs of stopping. X-KAN/Kantopia was one of the best known translators in the Fire Emblem community, and despite having been semi-inactive starting around the dawn of The New '20s, still is known for translating bits of Fire Emblem media and details largely unknown outside Japan to this day. They have also done translations for other game franchises, such as PokÃ©mon.
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Fandom VIP / int_38b81605	comment	Toontown Rewritten lead Joey Ziolkowski holds an in-person ToonFest every year, where one of the venue's traditions is to have staff from the original game answer fan questions.
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Fandom VIP / int_3b0fa3aa	comment	SAD-ist is a fan animator known for her animatics for the Dream SMP. Though she was already a relatively well-known animator in Dream's community (her previous animation being based on a clip from Dream's Minecraft Manhunt series), her popularity skyrocketed after her animatic of the L'Manburg War for Independence, "Dream SMP War".
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Fandom VIP / int_3b34143f	comment	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 VIP 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 foreword 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 VIP, 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 a source of much fanon. Makani soon became a VIP 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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Fandom VIP / int_426a7572	comment	Animaniacs has Ron O'Dell, known as Keeper1st or Keeper for short. He wrote many webpages about the show back when it was airing, including the Animaniacs Mega Lyrics File, and has a collection of VHS tapes of various Animaniacs rarities, from the 1998 Animaniacs Attack marathon to international dubs of the series. Even Warner Brothers themselves took notice by inviting him to tour their studios in 1995 and drawing his hat on The Lobe in Freakazoid!.
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Fandom VIP / int_43576f5	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_440678ce	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers: Several Power Rangers VIPs have gotten shout-outs in the show: 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) Bruno of MMPRtoys does toy reviews for Power Rangers and Super Sentai and animations along with his wife, Mia and his friend Jerry, and has a huge collection. He also worked on the show during the latter part of Saban Entertainment's tenure on the show, including Wildforce with Amit doing VFX and stop motion animation Lewis Lovhaug aka Linkara probably counts, especially considering he got invited as a guest to PowerMorphicon. 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. 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. Actor, filmmaker, and professional stunt performer Aaron Schoenke, co-founder of the film production company Bat in the Sun, has become recognized as a key figure in the Power Rangers fandom ever since the late Jason David Frank appeared in two episodes of the Bat in the Sun series Super Power Beat Down reprising his role as Tommy Oliver. By most accounts, Schoenke and Frank were close friends and collaborators up until the latter's untimely death in 2022, with at least two film projects in the works. Schoenke's recognition in the fandom eventually led to Bat in the Sun being hired by Saban to produce a short film promoting the officially licensed mobile game Power Rangers: Legacy Wars, and the company's interpretation of the Green Ranger costume allegedly inspired the design of the one used in the official Boom! Studios comic book.
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Fandom VIP / int_44fe781e	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_4745a292	comment	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 VIP 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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Fandom VIP / int_47dfc6f	comment	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. Kobold is actually so prolific that Total Drama actually references his work a few times, such as outright using the term "Total Drama Comeback" in the Action special. 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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Fandom VIP / int_49e09aa9	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_503d3d54	comment	Sal Piro became one for The Rocky Horror Picture Show, using Audience Participation to make the movie a cult classic.
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Fandom VIP / int_507dfb6a	comment	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 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 Jami Lynne. Under the handle "Katon", they were one of the masterminds between three well-renowned fan radio plays and the most consistently popular radio DJ for STARMEN.net's internet radio station, Radio PSI, in the early 2000s. They received this popularity with more surprise and humility than many VIPs on this list, and have kept a generally low profile outside of their personal music projects, their contributions to the OMORI soundtrack, and some occasional work for Starmen.net's offshoot company Fangamer.
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Fandom VIP / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck: Andrew Hussie asked popular fan artist Shelby Cragg to draw art for in-universe Fangirl Calliope.
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Fandom VIP / int_56569e0a	comment	For Monster Rancher there's the late Lisa Shock, owner of the popular fansite Monster Rancher Metropolis and known for her research into the game mechanics. She is even credited under "special thanks" in the third, fourth, and fifth game, as well as the Updated Re-release of the first two games.
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Fandom VIP / int_59e9298	comment	Let's Play-er Chuggaaconroy is a VIP of the Mother series, PokÃ©mon, Xenoblade Chronicles, Ōkami, and The Legend of Zelda all at once. He can be considered one for Nintendo in general. Chugga also has an unusually bilateral example of this in the case of JaidenAnimations, as both content creators are subscribed to one another and follow each other on Twitter.
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Fandom VIP / int_5a0093	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_5ae078da	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_5bd0554b	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_60878253	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_6276800c	comment	The Nostalgia Critic: 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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Fandom VIP / int_640d9be1	comment	VincentASM is best known as the 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. There's also japanbrowser441, who is famous for making a very large number of commissions of Sophia (a character from Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade) and putting her back on the map as a result. It's often concluded half-jokingly that he's either rich or spending his lottery money, because as of March 2021 he's been making them for over half a year at least and shows no signs of stopping.
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Fandom VIP / int_686cfaba	comment	Journey has Rhonda Dirr, who had the first fansite for Jonathan Cain (Journey's current keyboardist) and who has become good friends and webmaster for Mr. Cain; Dan Stacy, who founded the Journey e-mail group in the '90s, and Cyndi Poon & Lora Beard, longtime fans of the band who were brought on-board with the band to run the band's fan club Journey Force throughout the '70s and '80s and now manage FanAsylum, one of the premier fanclub companies in the US, who still handles Steve Perry's promotions.
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Fandom VIP / int_6d27b424	comment	Thanks to a combination of a distinctive whiskey-soaked accent and his feature-length Mockumentary productions about the content and history of the BattleTech universe, Tex of The Black Pants Legion is a major name in the fandom and often suggested as a gateway content creator for new fans to get immersed in the lore. He even became Ascended Fanon when his character, former Mechwarrior (and slightly questionable professor) Randolph P. Checkers, had his presence canonized in one of the books.
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Fandom VIP / int_6dbe6646	comment	While he was more associated with the Saturday morning cartoon and the Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie 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 then he got the job to write the Archie comics. Evan Stanley also counts, who rose as a notable face in the Sonic fandom with her fancomic Ghosts of the Future and then cemented that status when she got the opportunity for freelance work on illustrations and then writing of the Archie comics. How? She simply entered a fan artist contest in 2010 and while she didn't win, the editor, Paul Kaminski, contacted her and presented her the prized opportunity. Plus, she was only 17-18 years old.
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Fandom VIP / int_6f3796a7	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_72262aee	comment	There are a few 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. Muffin Lance is widely known on AO3 and Tumblr. She has multiple popular stories, including Towards the Sun, Cheating at Pai Sho, Little Zuko V The World, and Salvage. She has also organized fans to create what is officially known as Liâ€™s Friends: Horrible Pets to Protect You From the Horrible World, but is often referred to as Li's Book of Friends or Zuko's Book of Friends (the name changed to avoid copyright from ATLA or Natsume Yuujinchou/Natsume's Book of Friends). This is a coloring book with original creatures, like the giant isopuppy, mimic catopus, polar bear goose, and more.
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Fandom VIP / int_72f19882	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_76e7de99	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_7988cb68	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_7a6625a2	comment	Evan Stanley also counts, who rose as a notable face in the Sonic fandom with her fancomic Ghosts of the Future and then cemented that status when she got the opportunity for freelance work on illustrations and then writing of the Archie comics. How? She simply entered a fan artist contest in 2010 and while she didn't win, the editor, Paul Kaminski, contacted her and presented her the prized opportunity. Plus, she was only 17-18 years old.
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Fandom VIP / int_7cded4a	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_7f87dafc	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_7fc78282	comment	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.)
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Fandom VIP / int_81692f99	comment	She also authored the original Star Trek Concordance that was the definitive reference work for many years.
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Fandom VIP / int_83730a45	comment	DieselD199 is perhaps the most famous content creator, with his TOMICA Thomas & Friends series having amassed 700 million views.
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Fandom VIP / int_84724d58	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_865b5c19	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_87cf8985	comment	With the development of the Master List of Limitations, Jack Butler became this for the Champions/Hero System community.
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Fandom VIP / int_89465e75	comment	Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Viktoria "Vika" Ridzel, also known as Viria, is one of, if not the most popular fan artists in the fandom. She is renowned for her fanart of PJO characters to the point where they were considered better than the official art, with even Rick Riordan giving her his full support. In 2017, Ridzel was commissioned by Riordan to provide official character art for his website, becoming a promoted fangirl.
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Fandom VIP / int_8d98042f	comment	Many of the bigger remixers in the Game Grumps fandom can get this status, including but not limited to the "Triforce" mixers, AtPunk, Liltommyj, and JerryTerry, the latter eventually composing several theme song variations for Jon's own show.
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Fandom VIP / int_8f36f969	comment	The Loud House has That Engineer, author of Syngenesophobia and What is a Person Worth?, which are two of the most well-known fanfics out of the show (being the most famous ones out of a trend of fics continuing the infamous episodes "Brawl in the Family" and "No Such Luck", respectively). Many members of the fandom have at least heard of one of those fics, even if they didn't read them, and some fellow writers were inspired by him or referenced his works in their own fics.
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Fandom VIP / int_909ca4b1	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_959dd815	comment	Perhaps the biggest VIP in Professional Wrestling, however, is Dave Meltzer, author and publisher of 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 VIP 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 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 VIPs (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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Fandom VIP / int_967347ea	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_97abe183	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_9888f901	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_99beaff4	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_9c954c1	comment	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.) Former voice actor Vic Mignogna guest-starred and -directed in New Voyages and squee'd about it during his guest appearances at anime cons. He's even pursued his own series, Star Trek Continues, until he was kicked out of the project by his Role-Ending Misdemeanor. 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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Fandom VIP / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: Dave Humphrey is 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, aka "Grandma Shirley," is a popular Youtuber in her 80s that does Let's Play videos of Skyrim. As of 2021, Bethesda has mo-capped her for inclusion as a character in the yet-untitled TES VI. Zaric Zhakaron posts his intriguing, detailed videos on the franchise (and on Bethesda games in general).
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Fandom VIP / int_9d47a2a2	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_9f89a5f0	comment	The PokÃ©mon 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 PokÃ©mon sites, the self-titled Serebii.net, and has been known to appear on other PokÃ©mon-related forums, as well as on Star Trek-related forums under the name of Captain Joe. His attitude regarding other PokÃ©mon 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 PokÃ©mon fans. His animosity with Bulbagarden and PokÃ©Beach 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 PokÃ©mon site, Bulbagarden.net. He's one of the oldest VIPs in the fandom, having first made a name for himself back in 2000-2002, primarily as a leader or spokesman for the PokÃ©mon 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 PokÃ©masters, 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 PokÃ©mon Master" (real name Jon Sahagian; thanks to Wikipedia for this info) of TCG website PokÃ©Beach.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 PokÃ©mon anime, Masamitsu Hidaka, and he is the only foreigner to have seen an early screening of the 12th PokÃ©mon 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 PokÃ©mon 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 PokÃ©mon Company International for posting early scans of TCG sets several weeks before they are released.
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Fandom VIP / int_a1a4b035	comment	Battle for Dream Island: Curiously, Rosie O'Donnell is a highly respected figure in the Object Show community, due to her giving BFDI a Colbert Bump through discussing multiple times on TikTok how her daughter, Dakota, is a fan of the series.
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Fandom VIP / int_a4455532	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_a485ad0f	comment	James Rolfe, aka The Angry Video Game Nerd, is practically a celebrity in the online movies and video games fandom.
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Fandom VIP / int_a5540430	comment	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 elicit 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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Fandom VIP / int_a58705f2	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_a64e8cd6	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_a6543322	comment	Touhou Project: 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.
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Fandom VIP / int_a90d266f	comment	Gigguk is one popular anime reviewer.
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Fandom VIP / int_a96a7ada	comment	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 and fan panels, and is on first name basis with most of the Japanese and English production staff. In fact, she's so popular that, in March 2011, a card signed by Slifertheskydragon sold on eBay for 750 dollars in a charity auction.
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Fandom VIP / int_aacd24cb	comment	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, and even got an official graphics pack for StarCraft Remastered.
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Fandom VIP / int_ab2a760	comment	Five Nights at Freddy's: The Big 3 Youtubers in the fandom are Markiplier, MatPat, and Dawko. All 3 even got a Shout-Out in Freddy in Space 2.
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Fandom VIP / int_b2ac2311	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_b2c6c7a4	comment	hololive: Years after his presence in the Touhou fandom (see KirbyM above), Walfie became wildly popular in the hololive EN fandom by both the Vtubers and fans for his fanart, reaching Promoted Fanboy status with the addition of "Smol" chibi models in his art style for April Fool's Day 2021, which have since then become a recurring part of the EN lore. Kanauru has created several 3D animated videos for hololive EN that have been published on the official channels, including "Smol Adventures" and the MV for the "Dreamin Chuchu" cover. The aforementioned MV uses 3D models by Priichu, which have since been used by the hololive EN Vtubers in several VRchat streams (such as April Fool's 2022). VTubing in general has a sort of class of these, the "clippers" — that is, those who take clips from streams and edit them into highlight collections for the audience's benefit. As this job often involves translating the Japanese VTubers' dialogue into English, it's considered an important part of the community, and successful clippers will be the source of many memes and introduce a lot of people to new VTubers. The first Vtuber Awards show, while obviously mostly focusing on Vtubers themselves, also had an award for "Best Clipper".
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Fandom VIP / int_b310c8f4	comment	Barney & Friends: Perhaps the most notable example is Andrew Olsen, admin of the Facebook group "Barney History Fans." He ended up actually working on the documentary, I Love You, You Hate Me. Another famous fan is Drew aka SonicHOG, a massive Barney expert who has made a video essay about the series' history. Emilia Leonetti is an active fan who was later chosen by original Barney voice actor Bob West to become one of his digital assistants. Kerron Stark has been an avid Barney fan since childhood and did amateur performances of the character in his teens. He is very active in the fanbase as he is a moderator-turned-admin in Barney History Fans, stars in his own show, Mister K's Clubhouse and performed a cover of the Barney's Great Adventure version of "I Love You" for his album "Echoes of Influence". Although they have diversified their content as of early 2023, artist and YouTuber HedgeOnStage is considered THE Barney content creator, making video essays and artworks pertaining to the franchise.
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Fandom VIP / int_b3309b69	comment	Puyo Puyo: If you have ever looked up shipping fanart of Sig x Amitie, there is a high chance you have come across the fanart made by the Chilean artist MacaHeroes, alternatively known as just Maca or Maku. While she does draw other Puyo and gaming fanart, she's very outspoken in her support of the couple and tends to be known by other Puyo fans in the West who ship the couple. It's to the point where at least one of her pieces of shipping fanart - specifically this one - was retweeted by the official Puyo Twitter/X account (more because they liked the art and less because of any approval of the couple, but still).
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Fandom VIP / int_b370d1d	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_b665bff9	comment	On a more traditional level, there's Jami Lynne. Under the handle "Katon", they were one of the masterminds between three well-renowned fan radio plays and the most consistently popular radio DJ for STARMEN.net's internet radio station, Radio PSI, in the early 2000s. They received this popularity with more surprise and humility than many VIPs on this list, and have kept a generally low profile outside of their personal music projects, their contributions to the OMORI soundtrack, and some occasional work for Starmen.net's offshoot company Fangamer.
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Fandom VIP / int_b89615ad	comment	The Blazing Dragons fandom has French DeviantArtist Benthehyena, or Natacha Satari. She is almost singlehandedly responsible for creating the show's fandom through her efforts to raise awareness of the series, with her most notable contribution being co-creating the #BDRevolution campaign with Season 2 story editor Erika Strobel.
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Fandom VIP / int_b8d48026	comment	Hermitcraft has Elybeatmaker, known for making Voice Clip Songs, and perhaps most famously Pixlriffs and ZloyXP, creators of the Hermitcraft Recap, a Youtube series that functions as a sort of weekly news of the server, and which is highly regarded by the Hermits themselves. As Pixlriffs is himself a Minecraft YouTuber and plays on Empires SMP, he became something of a Promoted Fanboy when Hermitcraft and Empires did a Crossover. Naturally, most of the Hermits who encountered him made some reference to the Recap, and Pix found himself in the awkward position of having to do parts of the Recap in first-person — and later, recording an episode "in front of a live studio audience" (read: Cleo, Joe, xBCrafted and Sausage) on Hermitcraft itself.
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Fandom VIP / int_b9d947a4	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_ba9c55ff	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_bb3fde3d	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_bbc9be27	comment	On the side of Rewritten and Toontown: Corporate Clash themselves, Ugly Corny hosts a page providing Content Packs, which are texture and music mods provided by the community, for free. Both Rewritten and Corporate Clash accept Content Pack creators as official partners.
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Fandom VIP / int_bcdcf629	comment	Also of note is Keyan Carlile, who became famous among fans of Transformers: Animated for his fan-made version of Season 4 and frequent interactions with members of the show's cast and crew. He even had the honor of hosting a TFCon panel alongside Eric Siebenaler, Marty Isenberg, and David Kaye showing off reanimated versions of various deleted scenes from the series.
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Fandom VIP / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2 is a perfect example of this trope, following on from a Quake mod with a commercially-released game that became one of the premier titles on Steam. 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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Fandom VIP / int_c137e301	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_c19c6efa	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_c1df815e	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_c4282b71	comment	In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom, such people are commonly known as being "horse-famous". First of all, there is 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. So much so that his variant design for Trixie's cutie mark (which has six sparkles and a different star than the canon design with only five sparkles) is so widely recognized as the real deal that it has been used for officially licensed merchandise and even lifted directly from his Deviantart and used by IDW for their comic adaptation. There's also BaldDumboRat, who (at least when it comes to fanon) is considered THE voice for Derpy Hooves. 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, Josh Scorcher, Silver Quill, and I Love Kim Possible A Lot. The concept of horse-fame has been addressed by musicians in the fandom a couple of times, such as by MandoPony in his farewell song "Horse Famous" or by Nowacking and Elit3 in a Nickelback parody that goes by the same title.
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Fandom VIP / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: Ian Levine is also well known amongst fandom. As well as his efforts to locate missing stories, he also briefly worked on the show as an unofficial fan continuity advisor. Jean-Marc Lofficier, author of Universe Concordances The Doctor Who Programme Guide, The Terrestrial Index and The Universal Databank. Before he became a Promoted Fanboy as the official voice of the Daleks and Cybermen, Nicholas Briggs was well known for writing and starring in some fanvids and audios during the cancellation. To the extent that his portrayal of the Doctor appeared in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip as a possible future self. Lawrence Miles is a Doctor Who Big Name fan who wrote some very popular spin-off novels in the 90s, including a number that acted as Wham Episodes for the first half of the Eighth Doctor Adventures. He failed to get a writing job on the revived series, but still has a devoted following online despite his extremely negative views on much of the 21st-century show. Peter Capaldi is arguably the biggest VIP fan the franchise has seen. In the early 1970s he attempted to take over the main Doctor Who fan club - a fact noted in a number of books - and at one point received a package of scripts from then-producer Barry Letts. He later wrote articles for a number of fanzines, as well as getting letters related to Doctor Who published in the Radio Times. All this decades before he was cast as the Twelfth Doctor in 2013. Current showrunner Chris Chibnall was a well-known fan of the show, even appearing on national TV in the 1980s to discuss it.
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Fandom VIP / int_c94bdd05	comment	Matt Michaud, better known as Enterprisingengine93 is one of the most recognized fanwork creators. He has an acclaimed series called Enterprising Engines. Mattel even hired him to direct the Thomas Creator Collective.
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Fandom VIP / int_cc1ec7ec	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_cd034c79	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_ceac6bec	comment	Jungle Juice: An entomologist by the username "Entomo" leaves fun facts about arthropods in the comments section of each chapter. Folk have gotten so used to this that Entomo gets top-comment almost always, and many of the early comments on chapters will be asking about where Entomo is.
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Fandom VIP / int_cfbe03a5	comment	Project Arrhythmia: ol666, the creator of the Black Heart series of custom levels. It has millions of views on several videos showcasing it, and is popular enough to be confused with the base game - occasionally, ol666 has been incorrectly credited for Project Arrhythmia itself.
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Fandom VIP / int_d03aeb13	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_d1706117	comment	Many designers become VIPs 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 well-known 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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Fandom VIP / int_d21c6578	comment	Chugga also has an unusually bilateral example of this in the case of JaidenAnimations, as both content creators are subscribed to one another and follow each other on Twitter.
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Fandom VIP / int_d3476c93	comment	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 VIP 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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Fandom VIP / int_d461f757	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_d4e486c7	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_d616724d	comment	Tyler "Tyler1" Steinkamp's rise to popularity through League of Legends is considered the stuff of legend. Originally he gained infamy as "The Most Toxic League Of Legends Player in America" due to his rampant griefing and poor sportsmanship, leading him to be permanently banned through 22 different accounts, with Riot Games permanently banning Tyler himself from the game by early 2016. However, after a long campaign to dispute his ban and a few years of mellowing out and becoming more cooperative while streaming other games, Riot eventually rescinded his ban on grounds of good behavior in 2018 (even several of his harshest critics at Riot, including LCS caster David "Phreak" Turley, welcomed him back). Nowadays, not only is he consistently one of the game's most popular streamers, but he's periodically invited by Riot to participate during esports events and official videos, and held as a glowing example of a troll turning a new leaf.
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Fandom VIP / int_d6206c4c	comment	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 II: 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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Fandom VIP / int_d7765410	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_d806f895	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_d9c602eb	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_da941eb5	comment	Ai no Kusabi has Kira Takenouchi known for her Taming Riki fan fiction and other original yaoi works.
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Fandom VIP / int_db30cf92	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_db96ded4	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_dc25de3f	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_de90363d	comment	In Spider-Girl, a temporary love interest for the main character, Chris Jarkoer, was named after a fan, Jarkover.
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Fandom VIP / int_dfa2160d	comment	Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken: D001, also known as Ruby Gillman Fanboy, managed to gain this status before the movie even came out. Thanks to his continuous posting of the movie on various websites (Twitter, Discord, and YouTube), he shared any regional advertisements and behind-the-scenes documentation he could find for the film. This includes several that were never shared by any official United States-based DreamWorks or Universal accounts. Some people have pointed out that he did more of a job at advertising the movie than DreamWorks themselves. This was further proved by the official DreamWorks account actually making a tweet thanking him for tweeting about the movie.
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Fandom VIP / int_e4b5d35b	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_e5d5d23c	comment	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, DoomÂ³ 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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Fandom VIP / int_e89f120b	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_e9e7fff1	comment	The Unlucky Tug is renowned for his in-depth video analyses on the show and its characters.
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Fandom VIP / int_ef8bd4a5	comment	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 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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Fandom VIP / int_f051217e	comment	Joseph Marshall is this for Johnson and Friends, Lift-Off and The Noddy Shop. He's met several of the people who worked on the shows in question, started a fansite for Johnson and Friends and even started an independent record label, Silbert Records, to re-release the songs from these shows.
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Fandom VIP / int_f1c508cc	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_f2f9a4c1	comment	Fans of Max have created custom mods to make him a skin for playable characters in several games. He's even received a voice mod for the Troubleshooter in DNF Duel, who already has a colour palette that fits him perfectly.
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Fandom VIP / int_f724b70d	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_f97683ef	comment	"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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Fandom VIP / int_fa1f2bfb	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_fa738078	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_fb173de	comment	The Phantom of the Opera fan Christine DaaÃ© 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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Fandom VIP / int_fb9c177d	comment	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. Also of note is Keyan Carlile, who became famous among fans of Transformers: Animated for his fan-made version of Season 4 and frequent interactions with members of the show's cast and crew. He even had the honor of hosting a TFCon panel alongside Eric Siebenaler, Marty Isenberg, and David Kaye showing off reanimated versions of various deleted scenes from the series.
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Fandom VIP / int_fcf0b6c3	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_fcfb2c78	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_fd8221d2	comment	"Water PokÃ©mon Master" (real name Jon Sahagian; thanks to Wikipedia for this info) of TCG website PokÃ©Beach.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 PokÃ©mon anime, Masamitsu Hidaka, and he is the only foreigner to have seen an early screening of the 12th PokÃ©mon 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 PokÃ©mon 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 PokÃ©mon Company International for posting early scans of TCG sets several weeks before they are released.
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Fandom VIP / int_fdbace96	comment	Gravity Falls: Among the Fallers, the most well-known is certainly Adam Warrock. Adam was already quite famous online because of the rap songs he created and uploaded to YouTube, but 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". Adam, among with another fan, Chris Haley, also hosted a podcast during the show's run, "The Gravity Falls Gossiper," which the show's creator once guest starred on. Moring Mark got his start as a popular fan artist in the Gravity Falls community, but would later become more well-known for his countless Star vs. the Forces of Evil and The Owl House comics, with his work being instantly recognizable to anyone within those fandoms.
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Fandom VIP / int_fdedbbb5	comment	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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Fandom VIP / int_ff66c30e	comment	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. If you're on Twitter and you don't know Joshua Gillespie, you probably at least know the Muppet History account he runs, with more than a quarter of a million followers.
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Fandom VIP / int_ffadf80	comment	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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