Fandom

Fandom is a community of enthusiasts organised around a media property, hobby, or celebrity, producing fan art, wikis, theories, conventions, and internal ranking jokes. Fandoms are major authors and audiences of iceberg charts and tier lists.

Knowledge gradients

Icebergs dramatise a fandom's onboarding curve: surface tiers for casual viewers, submerged tiers for wiki editors and lore-channel subscribers (deep lore). That pedagogical use sits beside gatekeeping humour.

See also

• Deep lore
• Submerged lore
• Tier list
• Super Mario 64 iceberg

Sources

• Fandom-studies overviews; observational use of icebergs in game and anime communities.