Hamilfans

I was wondering what the community around Hamilton thought about each other/ thought about the whole community of Hamilton fans. Would you say it's cult-like? Would you say it's like a religious community?



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Probably similr to dedicated fans of any movie or show. They dont seem to be slightly crazy like some fans of celebrities, just passionate.

No. That would implyl a leader. And so purpose.

I had no idea people were writing RPF about LMM. I was curious and looked up Hamilton fic (lots of Hamilton/Laurens) but it never dawned on me to check for that.

I don't think it's going to be a life long obsession for most like Star Wars and Star Trek.

Hey, I coined the term "Hamilfan" on Tumblr. To let you know, just in case you're labeling yourself as a Hamilfan, it isn't supposed to be a good thing. Yikes.

I haven't read the Lin fanfiction (thankfully) but I've seen the descriptions and some of it even includes his wife. It's disgusting to me. Hamilton fanfiction is fine, but there's no need to turn a normal family, who don't live the celebrity lifestyle, into some fantasy.

I'm also not a fan of the conduct of some of the fans at the stage door/outside the theatre. Screaming etc. It's unnecessary and no wonder the cast rarely come out in comparison to last year.

Other than that, I haven't seen issues with Hamilton fans.

No, Hamilfan is supposed to sum up all the bad parts of the fans. The fanfiction, the "shipping" of actors and characters*, the "headcanons" of characters*, tagging Lin in everything, acting really desperate and try hard. Calling Lin their "cinnamon roll son" - it isn't like RENTheads or HedHeads. It's a negative term I created so there was a word for those typs of people, and it took off I guess.



*I have no problem with "shipping" or "headcanons" for characters, but every character in the show is a real person. It's really ****ing creepy to say that you "ship" Angelica and Hamilton - they were real people. It's like saying you "ship" Laura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan. It's not cool.

Wait, so a Hamilfan is a bad fan, but a Hamilton Trash is a good fan?

CindersGolightly said: "No, the people who call themselves Hamilton trash are Hamilfans.



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Ok I'm pretty sure this is just your perception. I've seen Hamilton fans call themselves Hamilfans. I've never seen it used in a negative connotation. I think it's just the same as "Rentheads" or whatever. like I even googled it and it just seems to refer to fans of Hamilton. Like how Lin called the cast recording Hamiltune, or the Hamilton book, Hamiltome. There's a twitter account called hamilfans that just tweets news about Hamilton.

Updated On: 5/4/16 at 08:30 PM

So Renthead is unoffensive but Hamilfan is offensive? I don't get why.


Also, i think people can "ship" the characters of the musical. These are fictional representations of the real people. I kind of DO ship Hamgelica. I don't think that's anything similar to shipping real-life individuals.

Updated On: 5/4/16 at 08:42 PM

JM226 said: "Cinders - all you did was combine the words "Hamilton" and "Fan" together to make one word. I assure you that you were not solely responsible for coming up with this very basic, unoriginal term



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This. X1000

This thread is the trash of the thing.