User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Wiki domains will be changing from wikia.com to fandom.com in early 2019/@comment-25646820-20180823050640/@comment-20644-20180823171555

It hasn't been watered down, but rather broadened to reflect more modern times. I would contend that sticking to a definition of fandom largely derived from the 1970s, a lot of it born during the heyday of Star Trek's syndication, misses the evolution of fandom brought about by the mainstreaming of nerd culture and the advent of social media.

Decades ago, when what you quoted was very true, you had to be part of a collective to have any sort of noticeable expression of fandom because otherwise it'd just be conversations, passionate as they may be, with friends. But with Twitter and other social media platforms coming up in the 2000s and this decade, you can add your voice to a larger cultural conversation without being required to make connections with other people.

It's all valid, and it's all an expression of fandom.

Plus, to suggest that Crazy Rich Asians doesn't have those sorts of interpersonal connections misses the cultural relevance and resonance of that movie. The movie is incredibly meaningful to a lot of people and, as online conversations are showing, is a fandom of its own (complete with a sequel in the works to boot). Those are conversations we think it's important to be part of with the right content &mdash; and certainly it's debatable, in the aggregate, if we're accomplishing that &mdash; for communities and also individual fans who are expressing their fandoms online.