Citations:Stan Twitter

English citations of Stan Twitter

Proper noun: "(Internet) a community of fans on Twitter, centering around shared interest in celebrities, TV shows, movies, and social media"

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• 2017, "Fall semester smashes", The Spectrum (University at Buffalo), 18 September 2017, page 6:

  Stan Twitter and fans of Tinashe's pop agenda have been craving the release, thanks to lead 2016 single "Superlove."

• 2018, Elizabeth Adams, "Internet Culture: The Stan Twitter Effect", UCSD Guardian (University of California, San Diego, 5 March 2018, page 12:

  Stan Twitter is broad enough to encompass all those sub-divisions, and with it comes places of discussion, friendships, and new ideas.

• 2018, Demetrius Harrison, "Beyonce and Jay-Z top the charts for decades on end", The Georgetonian (Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY), 7 March 2018, page 9:

  Both albums hit heavily on the adultery that took place within the famous couple's relationship, sending “Stan Twitter” into a conspiracy frenzy.

• 2018, Max Ghasserani, "Spill The Tea On A Sister Skinny Legend", The Investigator (Green Valley High School, Henderson, NV), October 2018, page 25:

  Stan Twitter is wildin' all the time so it is hard to keep track of what is fun and fresh.

• 2019, Danielle Linder, "STAN101: Intro to Stan Culture", The Howl Mag (Woodsworth College, Toronto, ON), Issue 4 (2019), page 8:

  Stan Twitter for example can be quite the toxic environment if there's a scandal surrounding a specific artist.

• 2019, Una Pasagic, "Stan Twitter: What is it?", Graffiti (North Toronto Collegiate), 20 March 2019, page 36:

  Some terminology that is commonly used by Stan Twitter originated outside of the platform, such as tea, wig, sis snapped, we been knew, etc., and is commonly used on other social media, however almost never as frequently or liberally.

• 2019, Alexzandria Windley, "'Stan' Culture Creates Toxic Consumption Trends", The Reporter (Miami Dade College), 21 May 2019, page 13:

  “Stan Twitter,” named after the famous Eminem single Stan about an obsessive fan, is easily the worst thing to happen on the internet.

• 2020, "Grace", quoted in Hannah Ewens, Fangirls: Scenes from Modern Music Culture, page 170:

  Stan Twitter has kept going even when 1D [One Direction] didn't.

• 2020, Dylan Yono, "Twitter stans and superfans", The Michigan Daily (The University of Michigan), 7 October 2020, page 11:

  Even if she only gets to see her friends from Stan Twitter at concerts, their friendship is genuine.

• 2020, Meghan Savaglia, "Confessions Of A Lifelong Fangirl", Moda Madison, November 2020, page 11:

  "Stan Twitter" as we know it now has actually existed since around 2012 ("Beliebers" and "Directioners" ruled the roost), but the arrival of K-Pop fans onto the platform has completely changed Twitter's fan communities.

• 2021, Kiley Roache, Killer Content, page 146:

  "Well, I think the reason you may be asking is because you already know that in Stan Twitter, people say 'k-word' when they mean 'kill.'"

• 2021, Sol Banaag, "Resolving the Weakness of 'Twitter Activism' by 'Touching Some Grass'", The Manila Collegian (University of the Philippines - Manila), April 2021, page 11:

  The drastic shift in the direction of how Stan Twitter operated aided in bringing other issues into light as well.

• 2022, Bonni Rambatan, Event Horizon: Sexuality, Politics, Online Culture, and the Limits of Capitalism, unnumbered page:

  Although most of Stan Twitter would not develop suicidal and murderous intent upon being ignored by their idols, the structural similarity should not be lost on us: Stan's cries are pleas of recognition by the Other.

• 2022, Derek Wong, "James the Seventh Is More Than Your Next Indie-Pop Darling", 34th Street Magazine, 1 February 2022, page 19:

  […] "Turn a Blind Eye," with its chilling instrumental and vocals like a breath of frost, sounds like a Stan Twitter fever dream collaboration between Del Rey and Eilish.