User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The Future of Gamepedia/@comment-5811199-20201106042837/@comment-1807002-20201108042627

No one I know in real life knows what the heck Fandom is if I mention it, some people know the term wiki was so when it was Wikia some related. So sometimes I just have to explain "You know Wikis? it's like Wikipedia on games and tv shows, etc. usually when you are looking up info on stuff, example the Sims Wiki, ya that is Fandom" and it's a long... walk. And worse they do not related to wikis they relate to the horrible Fandom articles on games and series, sorry- no, it is mean to say horrible they just say "Oh, I don't like their articles" but then I have to tell the "no it is mostly Wikis" -.-;

No one (when I talk to them) gets it is like fan and kingdom merge word, and no one is impressed and when I mention it years later they don't remember- that does not exactly give me confidence in a company when even word-of-mouth end up a burp-and-forgotten with a weird forgettable name.

I feel bad about it but Fandom should just be the parent name and wikis should have a wiki or pedia sounding name- so it is at least easier to draw parallels to encyclopedia/Wikipedia (but I guess the best ones were already taken?).