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Fanfiction.net has sorting and filtering on their fandom pages now! They may have for a while and I just hadn't noticed. But I love me some numbers.

the top 30 tv show fandoms on ff.net

Buffy: The Vampire Slayer (38,388)
Supernatural (34,899)
CSI (24,556)
Stargate: SG-1 (22,523)
Doctor Who (19,399)
NCIS (18,174)
House, M.D. (17,423)
Stargate: Atlantis (15,639)
Gilmore Girls (15,117)
Bones (12,491)
One Tree Hill (12,114)
Charmed (11,567)
Power Rangers (11,189)
Smallville (11,162)
Hannah Montana (10,868)
CSI: New York (8,911)
Lost (8,879)
Angel (8,500)
X-Files (8,374)
Grey's Anatomy (8,299)
Law and Order: SVU (8,078)
Torchwood (7,509)
Criminal Minds (6,487)
O.C. (6,415)
Dark Angel (6,306)
Heroes (6,200)
StarTrek: Voyager (6,196)
Degrassi (5,977)
CSI: Miami (5,694)
General Hospital (5,638)

the top 15 fandoms from all categories

Harry Potter (451,278)
Naruto (232,685)
Twilight (141,289)
Inuyasha (92,849)
Kingdom Hearts (51,513)
Yu-Gi-Oh (51,292)
Lord of the Rings (43,132)
Gundam Wing/AC (40,356)
Bleach (39,478)
Buffy: The Vampire Slayer (38,388)
Supernatural (34,899)
Digimon (33,255)
Dragon Ball Z (31,977)
Sailor Moon (31,851)
Fullmetal Alchemist (30,995)

It's easy to assume that fandoms we don't see don't exist; it's good to examine that periodically.

(I was reading the comments to a post about television shows that pass the Bechdel Test, and there is so much awesome there and so much I agree with, but Gilmore Girls isn't a show I'd tag as having a small fandom or insufficient fannish love - the TWOP GG forums were a scary place. And I know that because I was there, but there are a lot of other fandoms that exist on my periphery - do I think of Power Rangers or One Tree Hill as big fandoms? Do I even really know what Kingdom Hearts is?)

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I'm coming off a ltitle antagonistic in both these, but I don't mean it that way I'll skip the copywrite ramble, but I think, reading through your postings we have at our core a difference in world view.First, I don't think technology has yet to radically changed anything but music. The other arts, in my mind especially something like writing, have yet to be able to cast aside the corporate mass-market shackles the same way music has. Now, a musician doesn't need the big record companies. He can have a viable career on his own through the internet, through music downloads, through youtube.I also, have to disagree with the notion that somehow seeing more geek things in the mainstream means that geek cultural has become broader. To me, it's just the corporate structure recognizing a previously untapped market. I don't think there's acceptance there, I think there's just commodification of culture.We've had this discussion before, but I also, don't think fans of a tv show are necessarily going to drift into other things related to that tv show. The vast majority of fans of Buffy are just going to be fans of Buffy. I don't think they're going to go by the card game and the role-playing game and the comic. The few people who do, they would have found geekdom anyway. That's already who they are.Have you watched that show Big Bang Theory? It's funny, it's well acted, and it's well written. All the main characters are geeks in geekfields. I like it and you should check it out if you haven't; however, to me, it still shows geek cultural negatively and represents a lack of understanding.The characters are all defined by being a geek. They represent every stereotype. Smart. Socially awkward or out-right socially retarded. Gamers. Comic book readers. Talking in things no but there ltitle group can understand.That to me, doesn't show a broader acceptance of geekdom.-Chad

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