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'''The devoted hobbyists'''
Whether it's [[The Collector of the Strange|collecting something people generally try not to think about]], spending a lot of time watching/reading/playing something that many would think would have stopped being entertaining days ago, or just peppering any and every bit of conversation with obscure references to their hobby, it's generally considered okay to think of people like this as obsessive freaks. Characters may temporarily become like this during a bout of [[Fleeting Passionate Hobbies]].
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'''Chicago Cubs Fans'''
See also [[Every Year They Fizzle Out]] and [[Butt Monkey/Sports|ButtMonkey/Sports]].
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'''New York Yankees Fans'''
At the other end, those teams (and their fans) that are deemed to be ''too'' successful, are often regarded as Acceptable Targets by rival fans and media. In fictional works, these teams are seen as the [[Opposing Sports Team]].
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'''[[Professional Wrestling]] fans'''
Feel like coming out of your steel cage closet and admitting you're a fan to, say, your boss?
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'''[[Muscles Are Meaningless|Bodybuilders]]'''
Doesn't help much that they use steroids, or that everything about the lifestyle strikes some people as [[Ho Yay]].
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'''People who prefer media free of sex and/or violence'''
Unfortunately, all people who uphold this preference tend to be lumped in with [[Moral Guardians]] - even if those are just personal preferences, and they have no intention of pushing those personal preferences onto other people. Heck, even if you just say you'd like a little ''less'' sex and violence in entertainment, you'll be accused of being some right-wing anti-sex prude who obviously doesn't know what "real" entertainment is. Dear god help you if [[Values Dissonance]] of any sort comes into play.
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'''[[Disco Dan|Fans of a]] [[Dead Horse Music Genre]]'''
At least, the people who like the latest teen pop have an excuse of "following the crowd" - but if the music is no longer even popular, then what's their excuse? Surely, it can't be because it just so happens to be the music that they derive personal pleasure from. No, of course not! [[Fan Hater|It's because they're too stupid and misguided to know any better.]]
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'''People who obsessively play online games'''
Especially stuff like ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', which is the biggest target. For some reason, partly due to [[New Media Are Evil]], it's seemingly perfectly acceptable to blame any addictions to online games as the fault of the game itself - whereas doing this for just about anything else (namely blaming the murder on the ''murder weapon'' and not the ''murderer'') usually results with people not taking it seriously.
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'''Men who knit'''
Men who knit are frequently compared to homosexuals, old ladies, or old lady homosexuals. Despite the fact that a girlfriend would probably love to have a guy that can make gorgeous accessories for her from scratch.
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'''Tabletop Roleplayers'''
All 30-year-old man children who have no social skills and will live in their parents' basements as long as they can. More modern interpretations don't even let them get to be out of their teens, but they're just about always socially stunted nerds, and girls are mysterious-nigh-mythical creatures to them; certainly no girl would ever be ''caught'' playing a tabletop RPG. They also wear silly hats while they play. Which brings us to the '''[[Brotherhood of Funny Hats]]''', though it's rare to see this nowadays...
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See also [[Girl Show Ghetto]].
Examples of this include: ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'', [[Justin Bieber]], pretty much any [[Boy Band]], and pretty much anything from [[Disney Channel]] (such as ''[[Hannah Montana]]''... and [[Miley Cyrus]], for that matter).
If a form of entertainment is manufactured with this demographic in mind from the beginning, it is immediately shunned and becomes an object of ridicule, [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|often sight unseen]]. Even if something was liked and respected before it had fangirls, it is written off as valueless the moment the [[Squee|squeeing]] starts. Treating these series with anything other than total disdain (even indifference) can get you branded as a complete idiot who has no idea what [[True Art]] is, a brainless zombie who [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks|only follows what is popular]], or [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|a fifteen-year-old girl]].
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'''Hobbyist musicians'''
They're not very good, but insist on inflicting their music on their friends, and probably on practicing in the middle of the night when their neighbours are trying to sleep. For bonus points, they either play an insanely loud electric guitar, or an instrument that sounds ''really'' discordant when played badly, such as the violin, the [[Everything's Louder with Bagpipes|bagpipes]], or the accordian.
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