Browsing: Creators & Fan Culture

For years, American football looked like the one sport that would stay American. Its rules seemed too intricate. Its season ran too short. Its culture stayed too tied to college towns and Thanksgiving traditions to travel. Yet that assumption has quietly collapsed. Today, from São Paulo to Munich to Melbourne, the NFL commands passionate audiences…

Original maker of UK coins The Royal Mint has made an appointment to a newly-created role aimed at strengthening collector engagement.

In the K-pop market, an idol group surpassing the so-called “curse of seven years” to reach its 10th anniversary since debut is an extremely symbolic and unprecedented milestone.

Canva Philippines, together with SB19 and Sony Music Entertainment, rolled out the “Kaya sa Canva” campaign, providing SB19’s fanbase, A’TIN, with access to official design assets, editable templates and creative tools through a dedicated Creative Hub on Canva. 

The graphic novel Cannon by Lee Lai was awarded this year’s A$60,000 Stella Prize, establishing historic firsts in more than one area. Cannon is the first graphic novel, and Lai the first non-binary author, to win this major literary prize. The same weekend, Lai was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist, the…

Disney fandom has always been participatory, from quoting lines to remixing scenes into memes and edits. What’s changed is where that fan creativity lives and how directly it can feed back into the viewing experience people already pay for.

There are a few fandom rituals that feel like a yearly holiday, even if you are not in the fandom. For Harry Potter fans, 1 September is one of them:“Back to Hogwarts,” the day the story’s students head back to school, has turned into a real-world tradition people plan around.

The Royal Mint is continuing its evolution into a pop-culture player by naming Tim Muhall as its first Head of Fandom.

Fandom scholars may one day study the “Heated Rivalry” phenomenon alongside cultural touchstones like Beatlemania. The New York Times bestselling “Game Changers” book series from Rachel Reid first hit shelves in 2018, but after the Canadian television network Crave adapted the first two books for Jacob Tierney’s “Heated Rivalry,” the queer hockey romance ignited a…

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