If a character in a show, who is an actor (or Idol Singer), gets cast in his favorite show In-Universe, is that Ascended or Promoted?
I made this Idolized Julius Kingsley icon back when Akito first came out, and now that the crossover is actually happening, I don't care.
How the hell did we go from having "fans" to having "fanboys" (or "fangirls", in certain cases)? Geek culure never had this problem with sexism in the 70s and 80s, so just what the hell happened?!!
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... how is that sexist?
The reason fanboy/girl came into parlance is because it's distinct from just being a fan. Plenty of people watch Sherlock without becoming a fanboy. But Fanboys has a distinct implication that someone has a childlike fascination or obsession with something. As you said yourself, "fangirl" is just as much of a term. The gender part of the name isn't important as the diminutive part of it.
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"Some fans are a cut above the regular otaku. "
Can we just say "fanboy?" I know its hard for some of you to believe but we don't all speak Japanese on this english language wiki and we're not all anime or manga fans here.
And I don't want to hear an argument about how the Japanese version of the word has some nuance to it that just can't be done justice in english. And if otaku is actually Korean or Chinese or bastardized Japanese, I really don't care. It would just reinforce my point anyway.
Edited by gibberingtroper
The example of David Tennant isn't an Ascended Fanboy, it's a Promoted Fanboy.
Edited by misterwhipple
The decription suggests that the difference between this and Promoted Fanboy is that Ascended is "someone who's a huge fan of Doctor Who discovers the Doctor is real and becomes the companion" and Promoted is "someone who's a huge fan of Doctor Who gets cast as the companion". Which would suggest that if a fictional character who is a huge Doctor Who (or the setting's Doctor Whomage) fan gets cast as the companion, that's an In-Universe Promoted Fanboy.
But because Ascended Fanboy is No Real Life Examples, Please! (although weirdly, because it's "too common" for people to learn that the fiction they love is real, and they can be part of it, apparently) it seems like Promoted Fanboy has become No In-Universe Examples, with that page even saying that that's what the difference is. So those examples seem to go here instead, even though they don't fit the description.
Edited by DaibhidC