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"When you discover that band or artist that you finally know is the sole reason why you exist on this planet, you know you&amp;#039;ve officially become a lifelong member of a fandom. It&amp;#039;s a hard, but exhilarating road\u2014and through all the bad tears (why is he dating HER?!) and the good tears (this concert will be the greatest day I&amp;#039;ve ever lived), you support them with your whole heart. Because they&amp;#039;re the sun and the earth and the moon, and they&amp;#039;ve changed your life for the better. Here are the stages every fangirl goes through when she joins a fandom.  1. One day while scrolling Tumblr, you listen to a random clip your friend posted of a new band that she&amp;#039;s ~obsessing~ over. 2. You really like their music, so you start searching the Internet to find everything you can about them. 3. After thoroughly studying their YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram accounts, you realize they&amp;#039;re TOTAL babes. YES! 4. You start listening to their music non-stop, adding every album, EP, and cover song they&amp;#039;ve recorded to your playlist. 5. You stay home on Friday night watching YouTube videos of every performance that has ever been filmed until 4am. 6. Your friends start commenting on your new obsession, but you&amp;#039;re in denial like, &amp;quot;Oh, no, I don&amp;#039;t like it. I&amp;#039;m just watching out of curiosity,&amp;quot; as you get stuck in a YouTube black hole. 7. But then they announce a new tour and you freak the freak out, immediately buy tix, and start figuring out the best way to meet them at that venue. Maybe at the merch table after their performance? Or the buses always park on the left side of the building in the back! 8. After hitting &amp;quot;Track this tag&amp;quot; for the fandom on Tumblr, or stalking the fandom all day on Twitter, you realize you might have a full-blown obsession. 9. But then you meet them for the first time when they come play in your town and take tons of selfies\u2014you&amp;#039;re totally BFFs now, basically.  10. You buy anything and everything you can get your hands on that has to do with the fandom\u2014a calendar for your wall, an iPhone case, a shower curtain, a pillow case... 11. At this point, you start to refer to the fandom by JUST their first name, because you&amp;#039;re on that level. Harry Styles is just Harry. Selena Gomez is just Selena. 12. So you start getting seriously protective and defending them. Anyone they date is *not* good enough for them, and you start giving them relationship advice on Twitter (aka tweeting at them incessantly hoping they see it). 13. And then you realize the entire world has started talking about them\u2014you start seeing articles about them in your fave magazines, and you freak out. You don&amp;#039;t want anyone else to know about them! 14. You get angry when you get crappy seats at their sold-out stadium concert and start to get super possessive, because YOU loved them first and you deserve the tickets!! 15. But then you finally see them play again in all their glory, and you realize it doesn&amp;#039;t matter how big they get, or how crappy your seats are, because you&amp;#039;re so proud of them, and you love them no matter what. &amp;amp;lt; 3 Are you in a fandom? What other stages have you experienced? Share &amp;#039;em in the comments! MORE: 10 Signs You&amp;#039;re A Fangirl And You Don&amp;#039;t Care Who Knows It! 7 Life-Changing Finds For Every Fangirl 10 Hilariously Amazing Celeb Fangirling Moments You&amp;#039;ll Totally Relate To "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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