CChaos on 21 October 2010
Admittedly, this is the sort of thing that generally keeps me from saying that I'm a 'fan' of anything. It's not that I don't appreciate things or like them. Quite the contrary, I rather enjoy a lot of games, consoles, etc, and I do so quite equally. It's mostly the fact that the term 'fan' is now basically synonymous with 'raving, frothing fanatic'.
Used to be that it was a very positive term. When you were a fan, you were something that really enjoyed a particular interest. Now you get the loudest possible people screeching from the tops of their pedestals and that's pretty much the image people get now when one claims to be a fan of something.
Kind of sad to see the terminology take that sort of a turn.
