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Football fandom rarely starts at kick-off. It starts with the “what are you wearing?” group chat, the last-minute sign-making, the Pinterest board of kit ideas, and the little rituals that make matchday feel personal.

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The Walt Disney Company and TikTok have agreed to a content-sharing partnership designed to make licensed Disney clips easier for creators to use, while also routing creator videos into Disney+’s mobile experience. Disney said the details were outlined in its newsroom post.

There is something very specific about seeing an animated fandom leave the timeline and become a real-world, ticketed night out. It is not just merch. It is the feeling of a shared inside joke turning into a stadium-sized ritual, with people showing up dressed for the bit.

Members of “Silver ARMY,” an informal group of older international BTS fans, appear in a trailer for the documentary “BTS ARMY: Forever We Are Young.” Captured from X and YouTube

The New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium has posted their fall line-up of speakers and topics. Each symposium is free to the public and online though you need to register. To register, visit their newsletter on Substack for the email address one week prior to the event.

Mina Chan, a Japanese influencer based in South Korea, killed herself while broadcasting live from her Seoul apartment in the early hours of Wednesday, police revealed.

There’s a specific kind of Harry Potter nostalgia that hits when you see the scarlet steam engine: not plot, not lore, but the feeling of being on the edge of a new life. Platform 9¾ is basically a shorthand for “I wish I could start over, but make it magical.”

A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to support nationally recognized comic book artist, educator and Massachusetts resident Andy Fish as he undergoes treatment for two rare blood cancers.

KPop Demon Hunters has that rare kind of staying power where a movie stops being a “watch” and starts becoming a shared reference point. A year after release, fans are still streaming it at scale, quoting it, and treating its characters like a cast you can carry into real life through collectibles, clothes, and collabs.