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Note that a phrase like "personal headcanon" is [[Department of Redundancy Department|redundant]] -- all headcanon is personal.

[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/headcanon Knowyourmeme.com has traced "headcanon"] back to a July 2007 [[~~Live Journal~~]] post, where a [[Fanfic]] author used the term, possibly coining it, to describe her interpretation of a character from ''[[Ben 10]]''. By 2008 the term was in use in multiple fandoms across LiveJournal. It was first spotted outside LiveJournal in 2009, and within months had spread across the web as a standard usage. It consequently [[Memetic Mutation|spawned the meme]] "Headcanon accepted" (with corresponding [[Image Macro]]s).

[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/headcanon Knowyourmeme.com has traced "headcanon"] back to a July 2007 [[LiveJournal]] post, where a [[Fanfic]] author used the term, possibly coining it, to describe her interpretation of a character from ''[[Ben 10]]''. By 2008 the term was in use in multiple fandoms across LiveJournal. It was first spotted outside LiveJournal in 2009, and within months had spread across the web as a standard usage. It consequently [[Memetic Mutation|spawned the meme]] "Headcanon accepted" (with corresponding [[Image Macro]]s).

Not to be confused with [[BFG|headcannon]], no matter what ''[[~~Xkcd|~~xkcd]]'' says.

Not to be confused with [[BFG|headcannon]], no matter what ''[[xkcd]]'' says.

No examples are necessary; this page is just to define the term.