History OneOfUs / OtherPencilnecks

* Utako Yoshino, who has worked on a few ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' and ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' games, is an avid ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' player. This actually influenced a scene in ''Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary'' where, with no prompting whatsoever, Maguro tells Risukuma that he worries about the dwindling popularity of tabletop gaming. Utako Yoshino is also a fan of Creator/MichaelEnde's books, to the point that she named her dog after him.

** Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti supervised the installation of [[MustHaveCaffeine an espresso machine]] aboard the ISS, during which she was photographed wearing a Starfleet uniform and said [[Series/StarTrekVoyager "There's coffee in that nebula"]]. She and Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaperlov also made reference to the fact that they were on [[Literature/HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy ISS Mission 42]]. During the mission, Creator/LeonardNimoy died and was commemorated by the crew; Cristoforetti giving the Vulcan Salute while wearing a Starfleet pin, and American astronaut Terry Virts gave the salute while passing over Boston, Nimoy's hometown.

* Utako Yoshino, who has worked on a few ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' and ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' games, is an avid ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' player. This actually influenced a scene in ''Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary'' where, with no prompting whatsoever, Maguro tells Risukuma that he worries about the dwindling popularity of tabletop gaming.

* Isaiah Mustafa, the actor from ''Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike'' commercials ([[MemeticMutation he's on a horse]]), is a general paragon of [[RatedMForManly manliness]]... and he absolutely loves comic books. He has said that he'd love to play [[ComicBook/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]] in a movie. He also did a video response to [[{{Imageboards}} Anonymous]], complete with referencing the meme "Delicious Cake".

* Troy Baker, who has done many voices for video games, such as Booker Dewitt in VideoGame/BioShockInfinite, had to tackle the role of replacing Mark Hamill as The Joker in Batman: Arkham Origins. To prove he could do this he read lines from The Killing Joke at the San Diego Comic Con, absolutely nailed it, and the crowd went wild. He did this because he is a huge fan of comics, and also a huge fan of Hamill's portrayal of The Joker.

* Unsurprisingly given how many tech-based companies he has under his belt, Elon Musk is quite the nerd himself, at one point changing his Twitter profile picture to [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Edward Elric]], appearing AsHimself on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and hosting [[LetsPlay/{{Pewdiepie}} Meme Review]] with Creator/JustinRoiland. He is also a notorious Twitter shitposter, to the point that [[https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/elon-musk-says-twitter-locked-his-account-over-fear-it-n923191 Twitter once locked his account out of concerns that it had been hacked]], because they simply couldn't believe that the sentences "i <3 anime" and "I own a chibi Franchise/{{Wolverine}}" could come out of a multibillionnaire's mouth. Infamously, he has also once [[https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1055653541317042177?lang=en posted]] fanart of Franchise/TouhouProject character Kagerou Imaizumi, although he mislabeled her as a CatGirl, many fans believe (not without reason, given his history) that was an intentional act of {{troll}}ing and that he is actually a closet Touhou fan.

* WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd and Creator/{{Cinemassacre}}: Creator/JamesRolfe is a huge horror movie fan. He has a huge collection of movies and really likes the Franchise/UniversalHorror and Film/HammerHorror franchise. Apart from that, he is very fond of practical special effects makers, which explains his glee over the original ''Film/KingKong1933'' and Creator/RayHarryhausen. Musically he is a huge Music/{{ACDC}} fan. He is also fond of Music/BlackSabbath, Music/DeepPurple, Music/JudasPriest, Music/LedZeppelin, Music/{{Metallica}}, Music/TheWho, Music/TheOffspring, Music/{{Queen}}, Music/GunsNRoses, Music/PinkFloyd, Music/ZZTop, Music/TheRollingStones, Music/IronMaiden, Music/RobZombie, Music/{{Tool}}, Music/{{Primus}}, Music/SystemOfADown, Music/{{Boston}}, Music/{{Survivor}}, Music/VanHalen, Music/{{Slayer}}, Music/DefLeppard, Music/{{Heart}}, Music/{{Aerosmith}}, Music/{{Rush}}, Music/MotleyCrue, Music/TheMisfits, Music/TheRamones, Music/BlueOysterCult and Music/{{Whitesnake}}.

* Relatability to the audience is a core part of the appeal of many V-tubers. Just within WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}, Kiryu Coco commonly reviews Hololive memes and is herself basically a shitposter in idol form, Houshou Marine is a '''massive''' fan of [[VideoGame/TouhouProject the Touhou franchise]] and has made her own parodies of Touhou songs that are blatantly inspired by the works of Music/{{IOSYS}}, Amelia Watson of the EN branch is a toxic FPS gamer who cracks YourMom jokes, and the list goes on and on.

* Unsurprisingly given how many tech-based companies he has under his belt, Elon Musk is quite the nerd himself, at one point changing his Twitter profile picture to [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Edward Elric]], appearing AsHimself on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and hosting [[LetsPlay/{{Pewdiepie}} Meme Review]] with Creator/JustinRoiland. He is also a notorious Twitter shitposter, to the point that [[https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/elon-musk-says-twitter-locked-his-account-over-fear-it-n923191 Twitter once locked his account out of concerns that it had been hacked]], because they simply couldn't believe that the sentences "i <3 anime" and "I own a chibi Franchise/{{Wolverine}}" could come out of a multibillionnaire's mouth. Infamously, he has also once [[https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1055653541317042177?lang=en posted]] fanart of VideoGame/TouhouProject character Kagerou Imaizumi, although he mislabeled her as a CatGirl, many fans believe (not without reason, given his history) that was an intentional act of {{troll}}ing and that he is actually a closet Touhou fan.

** An asteroid, once thought to have ~3% chance of [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt hitting Earth]] in 2029, is named [[Series/StargateSG1 Apophis]]. Two of the scientists who discovered it admitted to being ''Stargate'' fans.

* Unsurprisingly given how many tech-based companies he has under his belt, Elon Musk is quite the nerd himself, at one point changing his Twitter profile picture to [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Edward Elric]], appearing AsHimself on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and hosting [[LetsPlay/{{Pewdiepie}} Meme Review]] with Creator/JustinRoiland.

* This section is where obsession over something becomes MisaimedFandom:

* Utako Yoshino, who worked on a few ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' and ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' games, is an avid ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' player. This actually influenced a scene in ''Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary'' where, with no prompting whatsoever, Maguro tells Risukuma that he worries about the dwindling popularity of tabletop gaming.

* Paul Delprat the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Delprat#The_Principality_of_Wy Prince of Wy]] [[http://principalityofwy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Principality-of-Wy-with-rabbit-and-brush2.jpg painted]] the MoeAnthropomorphism representing his "land" in ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia''.

* Creator/CristinaValenzuela, best known for voicing Noel Vermillion in ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'', has covered numerous video game related songs (like [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Bad Apple!!]], probably the most well-known English version of it) and has often lent her voice to Fan Works surrounding characters she voices, like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epn-fg48i9M fandubbing a Noel-centric]] ''Webcomic/{{Blazen}}'' strip or doing some voices for Homura in ''WebAnimation/MadokaAbridged''.

* Arwyn, the "little girl" that appeared in some of the ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' puppet stuff, is now a huge fan of ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' and ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' among other things.

* Infamously, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who murdered thirteen people and then themselves at [[UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} Columbine High School]] in Colorado in 1999, were massive fans of ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'', leading to a backlash from MoralGuardians against the game and against [[MurderSimulators video game violence]] in general. Harris was even involved in the game's modding community, leading to speculation that some of the maps he created were based on the school.
** Harris and Klebold were also avid fans of IndustrialMetal listening to Music/NineInchNails, Music/{{KMFDM}}, and Music/{{Rammstein}}. The pair were also avid movie geeks, code naming their massacre "NBK" after the movie ''Film/NaturalBornKillers'', and in their taped recordings bragged that movie producers would fight over getting the rights to their story and speculated that Creator/StevenSpielberg or Creator/QuentinTarantino would be the one to make the movie. Naturally, this caused alternative music and violent movies to get flak from MoralGuardians as well.

* Creator/CristinaValenzuela, best known for voicing Noel Vermillion in ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'', has covered numerous video game related songs (like [[Music/{{IOSYS}} Bad Apple!!]], probably the most well-known English version of it) and has often lent her voice to Fan Works surrounding characters she voices, like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epn-fg48i9M fandubbing a Noel-centric]] ''Webcomic/{{Blazen}}'' strip or doing some voices for Homura in ''WebAnimation/MadokaAbridged''.

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* The [[BeautyContest Miss USA]] winner [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alyssa_Campanella Alyssa Campanella]] was [[http://tv.yahoo.com/daytime/video/miss-usa-hate-high-heels-loves-star-wars/25399253/ revealed]] to be a huge ''Franchise/StarWars'' fan, even answering a few surprise trivia questions correctly, and going as far as admitting that if she knew she'd be quizzed on Franchise/StarWars, she would've worn her hair with Princess Lea's [[OdangoHair Odangos]].

* Jef Nys (''ComicBook/{{Jommeke}}'') was a huge fan of Creator/WaltDisney, especially ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''. He also named ''Film/CityLights'' his favorite movie of all time.

* Mathematician Kurt Gödel, best known for his incompleteness theorems, was a huge Disney fan and fascinated by ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''. He even tried to get Albert Einstein interested in the movie but failed. Eventually Gödel's fascination with this film resulted in an obsessive fear of being poisoned, like what happened to Snow White. He would only eat food that his wife prepared for him. When she was hospitalized for six months in 1977 and could no longer cook his meals, Gödel simply starved to death because he refused to eat.