Locals Vs Cross-fandom Commenting?
2.0BRAINROT SCORELOCALS— ORIGIN, MEANING & USAGE
Locals In fandom talk, people outside a particular online fandom, who do not know its in-jokes, history or norms. Used neutrally to mark the boundary between fans and everyone else, as in "explaining it to the locals"; the exact usage varies by community.
EXAMPLE USAGE
""The locals will not get this joke without three paragraphs of context.""
CROSS-FANDOM COMMENTING— ORIGIN, MEANING & USAGE
Cross-Fandom Commenting Members of one fandom deliberately flooding another fandom's posts with supportive or celebratory comments, a specific participation behavior during a fandom truce.
EXAMPLE USAGE
"Comment section is full of cross-fandom commenting today, both groups showing up for each other."
LOCALS VS CROSS-FANDOM COMMENTING
In fandom talk, people outside a particular online fandom, who do not know its in-jokes, history or norms. Used neutrally to mark the boundary between fans and everyone else, as in "explaining it to the locals"; the exact usage varies by community.
Members of one fandom deliberately flooding another fandom's posts with supportive or celebratory comments, a specific participation behavior during a fandom truce.
In short: Locals (legacy / decaying slang) and Cross-Fandom Commenting (mainstream slang) are frequently used together in the same Gen Z/Alpha vocabulary, but describe distinct concepts — see the full entries for category tags, related terms, and live trend data.
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