From: boron_elgar@hotmail.com   
      
   On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 00:56:25 +0000 (UTC), Howard    
   wrote:   
      
   >Does anyone know anything in depth about fandom.com/wiki pages?   
   >   
   >From time to time I'll search for a movie or show summary and they will   
   >be one of the top sites that come up. I'm surprised by how many   
   >extremely detailed wikis there are -- for example, I went there today   
   >and they had a banner linking to a detailed wiki for American Gods, a   
   >show that I don't know anyone has watched, with 200+ pages of plot   
   >summaries, character pages, etc.   
   >   
   >Who writes these? I can see how there might be some dedicated fans of   
   >franchises like The Simpsons or the Marvel movies who take care of their   
   >pages, but it's hard for me to imagine anyone cares about American Gods   
   >or the Disney show Milo Murphy's Law enough to keep that kind of thing   
   >running. It's not a few pages, it's hundreds for each one.   
   >   
   >Are these run by PR companies working for networks or production   
   >companies? Or am I wrong and there really are dedicated fans for all of   
   >these movies and shows?   
      
   This sort of thing has been around for a long, long time and with the   
   convenience of online formats that are pretty much set up and ripe for   
   the adapting, they easily pop up amongst and for devoted fans or   
   others needing references to the show. Many of these feeds, groups,   
   wikis and pages are fan based, but may also entwined with the show for   
   publicity or legitimacy.Reddit will often run AMAs with actors or   
   showrunners or cover whatever the subject's equivalent of ComiCon is.   
   Whole industries have sprung up.The social media aspects are a very   
   important part of these entertainment entities. Though devoted fans   
   often start some of these things, the most successful of them are   
   often cooperating with the company that puts out the entertainment.   
   They become reference works for the entity.   
      
   American Gods has over 30k followers on its subreddit alone and over   
   65k on its Twitter feed. I assume it has Insta and FB groups that are   
   even bigger.  Gaiman, sometimes by himself or in combination with   
   Pratchett, is the subject of many, many detailed sites- way beyond   
   American Gods.   
      
   It is sometimes hard to comprehend just how involved with a   
   show's/actor's/film's/game's characters and plots these groups can be.   
   With devotees that can number in the millions for the most popular   
   groups/wikis/etc, even the smallest detail can generate huge   
   responses.   
      
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