Personal fan clubs
This is something celebrities like Billie Joe Armstrong have in common. This is what some animé characters and shippings claim. This is also what people on the forums are staking out for members. On PKMN.NET Christmas Code Lyoko and Spirit of the Shadows have formed one each, the former glorifying Jeroen. They're fan clubs.
Fan clubs are an upgrade of cliques. As you've noticed in my lecture about forum teams on Cross Stinging Reality, cliques are the outlet for people that want to belong to a group in which their ideas or trends are accepted. Fan clubs are special because they are set for the popularity of a single person, regardless of their party. People in these cliques will buy a CD if they in common like the artist, and some will receive recognition by a corporation, such as was the case of the Power Rangers Fan Club and the Pokémon Trading Card Game League.
The reason why I'm placing this in CSR Hall of Shame and not giving the original clique lecture here is simple: Cliques are a psychological thing, a substitute young people use for identity, and you'll see them everywhere among underclassmen. They focus solely on the characteristics people share as far as long-term goals, method of study, religion, favourite hobby, and others of the sort. Fan clubs are a perversion of cliques; they take the popularity of a person and amplify it. They serve the same purpose as coalitions and such to get a politician elected. When something harsh comes up, the fan club disbands and the object fades away, just as scandals can damage a politician's candidacy.
The worst kind of fan clubs are those created by the object itself. Every day we see the cliques formed by a person that is used to buttress their beliefs. If someone is a Pokémon enthusiatst, there will be a person that comes along to use a group of followers to resonate his or her discomfiture. These objects later turn into demagogues who lead people in radical movements. We remember Elijah Muhammad founding the Nation of Islam to stir up the black's contempt for the whites in the United States — Malcolm X was one of his tools.
So I see these things as not only a waste of energy, but also a penchant for catastrophe. There will always be cliques, but when a clique starts to support the cause of a single person, that person will respond and one thing will lead to another.
Fan clubs are an upgrade of cliques. As you've noticed in my lecture about forum teams on Cross Stinging Reality, cliques are the outlet for people that want to belong to a group in which their ideas or trends are accepted. Fan clubs are special because they are set for the popularity of a single person, regardless of their party. People in these cliques will buy a CD if they in common like the artist, and some will receive recognition by a corporation, such as was the case of the Power Rangers Fan Club and the Pokémon Trading Card Game League.
The reason why I'm placing this in CSR Hall of Shame and not giving the original clique lecture here is simple: Cliques are a psychological thing, a substitute young people use for identity, and you'll see them everywhere among underclassmen. They focus solely on the characteristics people share as far as long-term goals, method of study, religion, favourite hobby, and others of the sort. Fan clubs are a perversion of cliques; they take the popularity of a person and amplify it. They serve the same purpose as coalitions and such to get a politician elected. When something harsh comes up, the fan club disbands and the object fades away, just as scandals can damage a politician's candidacy.
The worst kind of fan clubs are those created by the object itself. Every day we see the cliques formed by a person that is used to buttress their beliefs. If someone is a Pokémon enthusiatst, there will be a person that comes along to use a group of followers to resonate his or her discomfiture. These objects later turn into demagogues who lead people in radical movements. We remember Elijah Muhammad founding the Nation of Islam to stir up the black's contempt for the whites in the United States — Malcolm X was one of his tools.
So I see these things as not only a waste of energy, but also a penchant for catastrophe. There will always be cliques, but when a clique starts to support the cause of a single person, that person will respond and one thing will lead to another.
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