User blog comment:Craiglpalmer/Wikia is now Fandom powered by Wikia/@comment-5558012-20160926233707

After reading all the previous blog comments, my favorite quote:

"There is also the problem where calling yourself "Fandom" makes it seem like you are trying to speak for fandom or be fandom. You're not and you don't. You don't speak for us, you are not us. You are not a part of fandom you're a company."

A wiki is at best (noting that "fandom" isn't perceived as positive in all fan communities) part of a fandom. They aren't the fandom so how in the world can Wikia call themselves Fandom?

Just as when Wikia came up with the brilliant idea to call wikis wikias, I don't see myself calling Wikia Fandom. This branding move really doesn't make sense to me. Wikia has social aspects, I get that and don't have an issue with it, but proclaiming themselves Fandom is an inappropriate stretch.