Eng 101 Foundations 1pm F21

     Dating all the way back to the early 1900's, the American baseball team the New York Yankees have been one of the largest fandom's in baseball history. They have a long history of winning, constructing a successful and respectful organization, maintaining good sportsmanship, and most importantly having the best fans in baseball. Once becoming a Yankees' fan, that is something that stays with you for life. Loyalty is everything with these fans and it is very hard to take that away.      Fans wearing pinstripes with pride An exciting feature to the Yankee's is their pinstriped home uniforms. Only 6 out of the 30  major league baseball teams wear pinstripes which makes the team and their jerseys unique.   According to the nypost " The pinstripes were first added to the  team’s jerseys in 1912 when the team was still known as the  New  York Highlanders. But after a  102-loss season, the stripes were  ditched for the next ...

     This sister duo ‘Chloe x Halle’ achieved stardom by doing musical covers of popular songs, notably, Beyonce’s “Pretty Hurts”. Their fanbase is rather unique as it is composed of millions of fans from other artists and musicians, such as Ariana Grande, Taylor Smith, Adele, Rhianna, Alicia Keys, Lil Wayne, Nina Simone, BTS, and Drake. Because they performed so well on the covers, they garnered the attention of many of the “fandom” fans of the artists they did covers for. Beyonce’s “Beyhive” and Arian Grande’s “Arianators” openly championed and promoted their support of the rising R&B duo. Their youtube followers promoted their popularity on others. The sisters do still do covers but not as often. The first time I saw Chloe and Halle on social media singing was in 2011. They did a cover by Beyonce's song "I am Here" on youtube. When I heard them singing. I know that they would make it big one day. But they need some work before they get there. The past ten years rev...

Picture of the group "Twice"  Twice, the nine member Korean pop (better known as K-pop) girl group that debuted in Korea is slowly but surely crashing into the states and stealing the hearts of Americans (including mine). Twice debuted on October 20, 2015 with their EP "The Story Begins." Their feel good, happy, girly songs have helped them over these past six years amass quite the fanbase and following. I got into them and their music senior year of high school but have grown to be a more dedicated fan in the past year or so. I've joined their fanbase which they've bestowed the name of "Once."  Once is a very serious and devoted fanbase.  The Instagram ( @twicetagram ) dedicated to the group has a whopping 21.8M followers as well as the Twitter which has 9.2 million followers. You would be surprised, despite Twice being a girl group and producing mainly upbeat bubbly songs; Once is dominated by "fanboys" instead of women. Around 59% of O...

     Peter Parker has one of the most well known secret identities across super hero universes. A nerd turned superhero is a pop culture icon, other well known as Spider-Man. He has been portrayed by several different actors on the big screen, had multiple animated tv shows, has his own video game, and has been apart of so many stories across comic books that make the character always relevant in todays culture. His fanbase is ever growing, and includes people of all ages. Fans have loved the idea of the character because of so many different versions portrayed, that almost everyone can relate. The creator Stan Lee himself has said, "Once the mask and suit are put on, nobody knows who is underneath. He can be white, black, red, yellow, green or even a woman. Anybody can be Spider-Man; that is what is so special about the character". Figure 1: Captain America: Civil War (2016)       Superhero movies have been all the craze these past 10-12 years with the st...

The Star Wars Fandom      Star Wars is perhaps one of the most popular and successful franchises of all time. Even if someone doesn't know much about Star Wars, the name is still recognizable and exposure to some sort of Star Wars media is almost inevitable. The Star Wars franchise is a collection of movies, TV shows (Figure 1), comics, and videogames that all take place in a galaxy far, far away and tells a connected story over a long period of time. The main storyline is referred to as the Skywalker Saga, stretching through nine movies in order from episodes one to nine, telling the tales and struggles of the force wielding Jedi, Sith, and Skywalker family. It's popularity exploded in 1977 when the first ever Star Wars film, A New Hope, debuted in theatres and kickstarted the Skywalker Saga. Despite the initial low expectations and many issues while filming, A New Hope ended up being one of the most successful movie releases to date. As more Star Wars movies and shows...

Weightlifting Fandom          November 29th, 2021                    Joshua Ash: Fandom Blog      Weightlifting has been characterized as a hobby or a sport for a long time but with the rise of social media, it has turned into one of the biggest fandoms of 2021. The participants in this fandom are broken up into many segments, the main subsets of weightlifters are; Bodybuilders, Powerlifters, Olympic weight lifters and Gym Bros. Each of these groups lift weights regularly, but they all do it for different reasons.  A bodybuilder's main goal is to attain a physique that is aesthetic and attractive. Powerlifters and Olympic weightlifters both have the goal of being lifting as much weight as possible, however, the lifts they perform are different. Gym bros are similar to bodybuilders in that they lift for vanity's sake but they are also characterized by their need to boost their ego and thei...

Steeler Nation             Steeler’s nation has always been a big part of my life from the time I was little I always remember the steelers being on tv on Sundays. I have attended multiple games and participate in fandom for the Pittsburgh Steelers along with millions of others. One of the main style of fandom for the Pittsburgh steelers or steelers nation is the terrible towels. The terrible towels waver throughout the stadium during game day and hang up on people walls as a way to show support to the steelers. Other ways to participate in fandom for the Steelers is wearing players jerseys which shows support to the player and Steelers nation.             The main way to participate in steelers fandom is the terrible towels, this has been a tradition for steeler nation ever since I can remember, it is a rally flag and has been used in many high stress game situations by f...

 Morgan Wallen Fandom Morgan Wallen on the cover of his newest album; Dangerous: The Double Album      Morgan Wallen is a   Country country pop country rock and is a singer/songwriter. He was born May 13, 1993 in Sneedville, Tennessee. He is a very  popular singer dropping many #1 charted albums and singles for consecutive weeks on Billboard top 100. He has many famous songs such as "Heartless" and "Cover Me Up" which are some of his more famous songs.  As a country artist his fandom is quite large and strong.  His fans stuck by him when times were rough and he was going through the mental toughness of being in the spotlight of being famous.  Morgan's Controversies:        Morgan has been in a lot of predicaments in his years of fame and more to come. His fandom has supported him through it all and backed him up when things were rough for him. Deep down the fandom knows he means good and doesn't think he means some of the ...