History Main / FandomRivalry

** [=FIAWOL=][[hottip:1:Fandom Is A Way Of Life]] vs. [=FIJAGH=][hottip:2:Fandom Is Just A Goddamn Hobby]]

** [=FIAWOL=][[hottip:1:Fandom Is A Way Of Life]] vs. [=FIJAGH=][hottip:2:Fandom Is Just A Goddamn Hobby]]

** [=FIAWOL=][[hottip:1:Fandom Is A Way Of Life]] vs. [=FIJAGDH=][hottip:2:Fandom Is Just A God Damned Hobby]]

* ''{{Vocaloid}}'' fans vs. ''{{Touhou}}'' fans. Both of their fandoms are [[MemeticMutation meme]]-built and {{fanon}} built and targeted towards {{otaku}}.

** Classic timeline fans vs. the ''MegamanBattleNetwork'' timeline. Though the latter is actually fairly faithful to the former in terms of themes, people who like the old-school, NintendoHard games see the Network timeline as an attempt to woo over fans of games like ''Pokemon'' and ''YuGiOh''.

** At the time that some people were getting into science fiction fandom more for the social aspects of fandom than because they were into the genre, the expression "We're just fans, we don't read the stuff" appeared. Opponents of those people responded with the slogan, "We're not fans, we just read the stuff".

***** The University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) versus North Carolina State University rivalry can get pretty intense. This troper, a student at UNC (Asheville, not Chapel Hill, though) was recently amused to see a student at her school trolling the entire student population by wearing an NCSU T-shirt. On a side note, there is some probably one-sided rivalry between UNC-A and UNC-CH...

** To a certain extent, this can be simplified down to UC Gundam versus everything else. There are just some UC fans that won't except anything else at all.

** Nas fans vs. Jay-Z fans is arguably a microcosm of this rivalry.

* 2pac fans vs. Notorious B.I.G. fans. Which is weird considering how different their music is. One's a Rebellious quasi-political activist, The latter's a new york mafioso. It's like comparing Huey P. Newton to Al Capone.
* Ludacris or Ti.

** In fact, The Rolling stones were signed because the Beatles were impressed by their talent and recommended them to Dick Rowe (infamously the man who passed on signing the Beatles), and even gave them a song they wrote, I Wanna Be Your Man, which the Beatles recorded after

* Sade fans vs. Anita Baker fans.
* Mariah Carey fans vs. Whitney Houston fans.

* During TheEighties there was Madonna vs. Janet Jackson vs. Paula Abdul vs. Jody Watley fans
* New Kids On The Block vs. New Edition (for obvious reasons)

* The "Mods vs Rockers" youth gang rivalry was based both on lifestyle and musical choice. The macho rockers enjoyed rock and roll from artists such as Elvis Presley, while the sophisticated Mods followed more blues-based rock such as The Who. Clashes between gangs of mods and rockers became quite notorious during their heyday, especially at Brighton Beach. This was perhaps most memorably portrayed in The Who's rock opera and film ''{{Quadrophenia}}''.

** Occasionally Opeth fans have been known to get into the fray as well.
* Newer country music fans who would like to see their genre have a return to public prominance if it means shedding some old bonds, versus traditional country music fans who would like to see Taylor Swift's head on a stake. Taylor's clean sweep of the [=CMAs=] and [=AMAs=] in the fall of 2009, combined with the outpouring of support from the Kanye West incident and a critically praised SaturdayNightLive hosting, have led to a massive backlash from the country music community at Taylor's media oversaturation.
* Notorious B.I.G. fans vs Jay-Z fans. which got over shadowed by the 2pac Biggie situation.

*** To the media's disappointment no doubt, the casts of both franchises have have largely refused to join in the game. The most they've gotten was Evanna Lynch stating in an interview that she thought the ''Twilight'' series "are good books but I don’t think they are as fantastic as ''Harry Potter''", which was almost universally reported with the headline "EVANNA LYNCH SLAMS TWILIGHT".

*** To the media's disappointment no doubt, the cast of both franchises have have largely refused to join in the game. The most they've gotten was Evanna Lynch stating in an interview that she thought the ''Twilight'' series "are good books but I don’t think they are as fantastic as ''Harry Potter''", which was almost universally reported with the headline "EVANNA LYNCH SLAMS TWILIGHT".

*** To the media's disappointment no doubt, the cast and crew of both franchises have have largely refused to join in the game. The most they've gotten was Evanna Lynch stating in an interview that she thought the ''Twilight'' series "are good books but I don’t think they are as fantastic as ''Harry Potter''", which was almost universally reported with the headline "EVANNA LYNCH SLAMS TWILIGHT".

*** To the media's disappointment no doubt, the cast and crew of both franchises have have largely refused to join in the game. The most they've gotten was Evanna Lynch stating in an interview that she thought the ''Twilight'' series "are good books but I don’t think they are as fantastic as ''Harry Potter''", resulting in headlines like "EVANNA LYNCH SLAMS TWILIGHT!!!!!!"

* Both TheAngryVideoGameNerd and TheNostalgiaCritic got very tired of the FandomRivalry that sprouted mong people too stupid not to realize that their satirical feud wasn't SeriousBusiness, and soon new videos on the subject started to become more and more blatant about how they enjoyed each other's work and co-produced the competition just for laughs, in advance of angry commentors.

** Interestingly enough there's A LOT of cross influence. There are rappers whom are influenced my metal artists, and vice versa.

* ''{{Macross}}'' versus ''{{Robotech}}'': Many Macross fans look at Robotech as a [[{{Macekre}} bastardized Americanization]]. Some Robotech fans consider the addition of ''{{SuperDimensionCavalrySouthernCross}}'' and ''{{GenesisClimberMospeada}}'' to the original ''{{SuperDimensionFortressMacross}}'' storyline to improve all three series, or at least prefer them to the official Macross sequels. The Robotech fandom was also split between people who enjoyed the licensed RPG, comic book adaptations, or novelizations, and the "purists" who treated all the spin-off material as [[AdaptationDecay bastardizations]].