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“Bandom” at TFR On TFR, “Bandom” was a popular fandom tag largely interchangeable with the “Music RPF” (Real Person Fiction) tag. Wranglers placed it within “Celebrities & Real People” and “Music & Bands,” top-level categories—not tags—meant to organize fandom tags by media type. The placement of “Bandom” was parallel to the fandom tag “Music RPF,” though in the common-sense definition and in wranglers’ discussions, “Bandom” was a subset of “Music RPF” fandom. In other words, while “Music RPF” would refer to works about any musicians, “Bandom” would refer only to bands and not to solo musicians or classical composers, thereby being a subset of “Music RPF.” Wranglers designated fandom tags as direct subtags of either or both tags or as subtags to more specific genres below “Music RPF.” For example, “Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart” is a subtag of “Classical Music RPF,” which is a subtag of “Music RPF.” “Pink Floyd” is a subtag of both “Bandom” and “Music RPF,” and “Twenty One Pilots” is a subtag only of “Bandom.” “Bandom” therefore functioned as a superwork, collecting related works that shared the quality of being Bandom fandoms. Because “Bandom” served both as a subset and as a parallel term to “Music RPF,” there was an imperfect overlap between the “Music RPF” and “Bandom” tags, as shown in Figure 5.1. As of March 2017, a search for “Music RPF” returned 33,948 fanworks, with very few (739) tagged with “Music RPF” itself. In the vast majority of cases, users had tagged with more specific subtags (e.g., “Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart”) and not used the “Music RPF” tag itself. The usage of Bandom was much different. A search for “Bandom” returned 36,641 fanworks. For 13,258 of those fanworks (more than users had tagged for “Bandom” directly. The usage of Bandom suggests a different meaning on the part of users, as users appeared to treat “Music RPF” as a category and
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