Zach WeinersmithMore interesting question: Is obsessive fandom a new thing, or is it just a new form of an old thing? The thing that feels different in my lifetime is the move from media obsession as a quirky geek thing to something like a serious identity category that lots of people possess.
-𝚍𝚜𝚛- (has pronouns)I think it came along with the concept of "teenager", so less than two hundred years old.