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Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Fansite" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fansite" title="Fansite – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Fansite" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8C%AC%EC%82%AC%EC%9D%B4%ED%8A%B8" title="팬사이트 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="팬사이트" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situs_penggemar" title="Situs penggemar – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Situs 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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Website created and maintained by a fan of something or someone</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Fanpage" redirects here. For the newspaper, see <a href="/wiki/Fanpage.it" title="Fanpage.it">Fanpage.it</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Candamir%27s_Family_Tree_-_from_The_Settlers_of_Catan_novel_by_Rebecca_Gable.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f9/Candamir%27s_Family_Tree_-_from_The_Settlers_of_Catan_novel_by_Rebecca_Gable.jpg/290px-Candamir%27s_Family_Tree_-_from_The_Settlers_of_Catan_novel_by_Rebecca_Gable.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f9/Candamir%27s_Family_Tree_-_from_The_Settlers_of_Catan_novel_by_Rebecca_Gable.jpg/435px-Candamir%27s_Family_Tree_-_from_The_Settlers_of_Catan_novel_by_Rebecca_Gable.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f9/Candamir%27s_Family_Tree_-_from_The_Settlers_of_Catan_novel_by_Rebecca_Gable.jpg/580px-Candamir%27s_Family_Tree_-_from_The_Settlers_of_Catan_novel_by_Rebecca_Gable.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="1442" /></a><figcaption>A family tree of fictional characters, from a <i><a href="/wiki/Catan" title="Catan">Catan</a></i> fansite</figcaption></figure> <p>A <b>fansite</b>, <b>fan site</b>, <b>fan blog</b> or <b>fan page</b> is a website created and maintained by a fan of or devotee to a celebrity, thing, or particular cultural phenomenon. </p><p>Fansites may offer specialized information on the subject (e.g., episode listings, biographies, storyline plots), pictures taken from various sources, the latest news related to their subject, media downloads, links to other, similar fansites, and the chance to talk to other fans via discussion boards. They often take the form of a blog, highlighting the latest news regarding the fansite subject. They often include galleries of photos or videos of the subject and are often "affiliates" with other fansites. </p><p><i>Fanlistings</i> are another common type of unofficial fansite, though they are much simpler than general fansites, and are designed simply to list fans of a certain subject who have chosen to submit their names (and sometimes links to their home pages). Many do not contain much information on the subject at all, aside from a small introduction. They are generally made with the thought that visitors will already have knowledge of the subject. However, several are a part of a bigger fansite, used to amplify the fanbase's experience. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fansite&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the late 1990s it was a lot more common for an individual to host their own website than it is today. It was not an option at the time to simply use one of the well-developed large-scale general-purpose social media platforms that exist now. Creating a permanent space dedicated to many aspects of a specific fandom often necessitated hosting a fansite, so as to allow room for numerous subtopics and to create dedicated website features which were not possible by using generic forums or chatrooms contemporary to the time. </p><p>Although many people did host fansites on their own web servers, it was easier and more common to use free website hosting services such as <a href="/wiki/GeoCities" title="GeoCities">GeoCities</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tripod_(web_hosting)" title="Tripod (web hosting)">Tripod</a>, <a href="/wiki/Angelfire" title="Angelfire">Angelfire</a>, or a smaller consolidated web hosting service offered through an <a href="/wiki/Internet_service_provider" title="Internet service provider">internet service provider</a>. These free website hosts were the home of tens of thousands of fan sites and fan pages. They would offer a <a href="/wiki/Subdomain" title="Subdomain">subdomain</a> or a <a href="/wiki/Directory_(computing)" title="Directory (computing)">subdirectory</a> to upload site contents into, then typically later, popular sites would migrate to an independent domain name rather than keep the name of their free host in the <a href="/wiki/URL" title="URL">URL</a>. Sometimes these free hosts would offer a <a href="/wiki/Web_template_system" title="Web template system">web template system</a> to make it easier to start a website, but knowledge of <a href="/wiki/HTML" title="HTML">HTML</a>, <a href="/wiki/CSS" title="CSS">CSS</a>, and sometimes other backend web technologies, was generally still required. </p><p>Hobbyist webmasters launched and built fansites around many topics, such as videogame franchises and entertainment brands (TV series, movies, bands, actors). Nearly all fansites had some type of <a href="/wiki/Internet_forum" title="Internet forum">forum software</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/VBulletin" title="VBulletin">vBulletin</a>, <a href="/wiki/PhpBB" title="PhpBB">phpBB</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Invision_Community" title="Invision Community">Invision Power Board</a> so that it was possible for readers of the fansite to engage with each other and communicate. </p><p>Independently run fansites peaked in relative popularity around 2005. As the internet matured, many of the previously fragmented communities consolidated under new fledgling tech giants. New website offerings did not require users to understand the technical hurdles required to format and build custom webpages as was previously necessary to have a presence online. In the mid-to-late 2000s, fan communities started to migrate to platforms such as <a href="/wiki/Fandom_(website)" title="Fandom (website)">Fandom</a> (launched in 2004 under the names Wikicities, later Wikia), <a href="/wiki/Reddit" title="Reddit">Reddit</a> (launched in 2005), <a href="/wiki/Tumblr" title="Tumblr">Tumblr</a> (launched in 2007), <a href="/wiki/Facebook_group" class="mw-redirect" title="Facebook group">Facebook groups</a> (launched in 2010), and <a href="/wiki/Discord" title="Discord">Discord</a> (launched in 2015). Short public discussions between fans additionally migrated away from fansite forums to places such as YouTube (launched 2005), Twitter (launched 2006), and <a href="/wiki/Pinterest" title="Pinterest">Pinterest</a> (launched 2010). </p><p>Fansites operated and hosted by individuals are still created and persist today, but have become less common. Most traditional needs of fansites are able to be met by the social media platforms and services that replaced them. Additionally, because these services host many different communities, they are able to benefit from consolidated hosting infrastructure costs, access to a large existing user base when new communities are formed, and user familiarity with an existing website interface shared between multiple communities. In contrast, the benefits of creating and maintaining a fansite without help from these modern services include: greater freedom over website functionality, more flexibility to style webpages without conforming to a unified appearance, and independence from centralized services not directly controlled by fan communities. However, these benefits come at the cost of designing and hosting a website on a <a href="/wiki/World_Wide_Web" title="World Wide Web">World Wide Web</a> that is far more complex and competitive than in decades past, when fansites more commonly thrived. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Motivations">Motivations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fansite&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Motivations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A study<sup id="cite_ref-Amberlight_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Amberlight-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> suggests that unofficial fansites are often built as an alternative to the "hard sell" approach of official fansites that carry commercial messages. A classification system developed by Wann<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> breaks down eight motives of fandom. These motives, particularly those related to group affiliation and self-esteem, are a driving factor in the creation of unofficial fan sites. </p><p>Satisfying the social psychology needs of group affiliation and self-esteem by visiting fansites, and, in particular, participating in the <a href="/wiki/Online_community" title="Online community">community</a> aspects of fansites, appear to serve to increase <a href="/wiki/Fan_(person)" title="Fan (person)">fan</a> behavior.<sup id="cite_ref-Amberlight_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Amberlight-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Research on interpersonal attraction indicates that people generally prefer to socialize with those who are similar to them.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, sports fans fulfill this need by attending sporting events in person. In the online world, fans fulfill this need by building or participating in online fansites. </p><p>Many fans prefer to visit unofficial fansites for fan-related services,<sup id="cite_ref-Amberlight_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Amberlight-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but still prefer an official fansite as the primary source for accurate information since it affords the closest affiliation with the target itself. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fansite&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fan_art" title="Fan art">Fan art</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fan_club" title="Fan club">Fan club</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fandom" title="Fandom">Fandom</a></li> <li><a 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