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[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 [[
Contrast with [[Canon Wank]], which is similar but not nearly as good-natured, and backed by an obsessive need to ''prove'' that it is "really" what is going on. Given the [[Fan Dumb|obsessiveness of certain fans]], it's not rare that a headcanon gets jumpstarted into canon wank.
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