Hey, hey folks!!
Come on and fest up on some pancakes, maple syrup, and a pot of honey.
While herein, we go and define for ourselves the type of fan that we are. Let's slot ourselves in one or the other, okay!!
The Die-Hard Fan
They watch every episode and know everything. They are probably a member of some online forum or community and discuss the finer details of the serial inside out including if the spot boy has had a day off or not and that is the reason for the strobe light that was to shine on the wall hanging in the left hand corner had one of the fuses cut off out of a possible three fuses.
They will stick with the serial and team, even if the best days of the serial are long past. The Die-Hard fan is the one you'd wanna root for when days are good but would wanna avoid on a bad day if you care anything for your arms or knees. Be sure that you are around these fans on a good day, you might even end up getting showered by champagne and feel like Michael Schumacher with 7 World Driver's Championships under your belt.
The Traditionalist
Now these fans know what a television serial is all about and they have experience having traveled the whole course of multiple serial watching and have years of experience behind their belt. They know what sells, what does not, who does what, how all serials in the end, end up with the same thing, why channels do what they do, why producers do what they do, why actors are the way they are, what is happening, etc.,.
These serial watchers also believe in how a serial need to be played out. On a given day, they are mostly right, and they feel o-so complacent in their rightness that you tend to remember the preening canaries and feel that these warblers would for once stop singing the same ol' tune, but again come back for more gyan from these gyan gurus as most times you are proved wrong and they are proved right until the next serial comes along that wants to become the myth breaker and you hope that now you have bested this traditionalist. Hard luck!
The Bandwagon Fan
These fans usually go where the buzz is or where popularity is. They follow the green buck or yellow jest!
They are also called as Wannabe fans. Anything popular and they will follow it. Anything that is in the news they will follow it. Anything that is maximum talked about, they follow it. Let the majority say that something is good, they will follow it.
We can also call these fans as the YO-YO fans as they simply shake their head in accordance to the majority.
These are not really fans of that particular thing, they are just in it for the star dust coming off such an august gathering of other fans. They want to be in with the in-crowd and they want to belong to that group of followers who are in the vicinity of the victory. They are like wolves that smell blood, they go wherever there is victory and whichever side is loaded with the gains.
The Just One Serial Wonder Fan
These fans watch only ONE serial!! Be it that they watch ONLY ONE SERIAL at a TIME [of course, I am yet to puzzle them out, as would it be possible to watch more than one serial at a time, o, well]. These fans watch just the one serial and for them that serial is the be-all and end-all of their entertainment or soap entertainment needs. They do not have a comparative index in their mind so they are not able to tell if this is better than that or that is better than this.
They most often than not watch this one serial and then move on to one other serial. These fans like taking everything in small doses. Just give them what they want and they will still say "O, why is it like that" or they will say "could it have been different?"
The Compare at all Costs Fan
These fans watch at the least more than one serial or have previously watched other serials. So, these fans day does not complete without comparing the best of and the worst of.
Sitting beside them is like reading a dossier or comparison on Tennis' two best players or two microwave ovens.
You get irritated after a point as for them nothing stands in isolation and everything has to fall prey to comparison. It is almost like Tennis' GOAT (Greatest of All Time) debate as to whether Roger Federer is the GOAT or Rod Laver or if Rafael Nadal is the GOAT because of his H-2-H (Head -to-Head) record against Roger Federer. Best not to be around them when they are in one of their fits, lest you pull out your hair and go bald prematurely.
The Heckler
This fan is never happy with anything. They have to put down everything. Even the best of the things. They have to find fault with everything.
If you sit anywhere close to them, you will feel like life sucks and that God almighty is a god-awful criminal with his knickers twisted around his feet.
The Romantic
This fan finds nothing wrong with anything. Everything is rosy, peachy and even tap water tastes like fine robust French wine for these folks. Stay away from them if you do not want a double dose of diabetic sugar lumps. They are good in small measures whenever you are low and depressed as they can make even gray clouds look like winter sunshine.
The Encyclopedia
Almost a variant of the Traditionalist. This fan has all the fundamentals (fundas), who does what, which serial what, "who where what how why when which whether if but if not why not whenever not or"
The Catalyst
This fan thinks that they are the chief reason, cause for some effect and that they are the sole reason for such-a-such a thing to happen, that they drove the story into that area, that they were the root cause for such-a-such track, that they are the agents of change.
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Now that is not an exhaustive or comprehensive list by any token or measure, but a brief list of various fan elements and fan psyches.
Now answer this one, WHAT TYPE OF FAN ARE YOU?
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