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[ICantBelieveItGoesBoom]

I'm a Twilight fan. . .(not the film)

 

[Cavouku]

So.. Twilight is basically Anne Rice for body-conscious, insecure emo girls, or so I am led to believe.

Why are we complaining that we can't find anyone that likes these to the point of drooling fervor?

Not complaining about the lack, no siree, not in this life. No, wondering if I'm calling murder at a papercut.

 

[Cavouku]

I'm a Twilight fan. . .(not the film)

Poncho, your friend? Go get him.

I hated it when it was a book, and when the movie came out, I just started staring at the matches at Dollarama.

 

[Insanum]

Ive met fans of all three.

Theres a few people i know that like all three, and they are in the "13-17 year old girl" Demographic.

Its ok, They'll grow out of it.

 

[ICantBelieveItGoesBoom]

I'm a Twilight fan. . .(not the film)

Poncho, your friend? Go get him.

I hated it when it was a book, and when the movie came out, I just started staring at the matches at Dollarama.

Poncho?, Dollarama?

 

[Skuffyshootster]

I know a lot. It's called "9th grade".

 

[ThreeWords]

The main demographic for Twilight is 12 year old girls if the Interwebs are correct. The reason you don't see them is either because you aren't hidden in an anonymous van outside a school or because 12 year old girls don't tend to use the Escapist forums all that much.

Either that or they have all become devotees to strange occult practises and are trying to summon vampires to be their boyfriends, resulting in half of them getting horrific burns to the face and the other half being admitted to mental institutes after trying to commit suicide when it didn't work. Or something like that.

Not true, a 14 year old girl in my class reads Twilight. She's not a fangirl but she likes the books. Doesn't really matter though, its close enough..

I think that may be the point at which things become different. I know a few girls who like the books but not the films and are around 20-22. Most of the screaming hoardes of pre-adolescence are likely to have only encountered the film.

It's a bit like the difference between people who liked Lord of the Rings before the films came out and those afterwards. I imagine when the film adaptation of 'On the origin of species' comes out there will be countless screaming girls who all want their own Charles Darwin to whisk them away to the Galapagos.

I agree with this. The difference between film and written word is great, and the two mediums attract different people. I would imagine that adults are more drawn to a novel, while obsessive adolescents are more easily attracted by film.

Also, the 'Origin of Species' thing made me lol

 

[Cavouku]

I'm a Twilight fan. . .(not the film)

Poncho, your friend? Go get him.

I hated it when it was a book, and when the movie came out, I just started staring at the matches at Dollarama.

Poncho? Dollarama?

Poncho14, previous page, Dollarama is a store in the mall here. Think a Canadian 99 cent store.

The matches there have dice in them, it's nice.

 

[Cavouku]

I know a lot. It's called "9th grade".

I'm in the same place, but there's a lack of them there, for me.

 

[Lord George]

I didn't think twilight was that bad, it was mediocre at best (though I've only read the first book), the films were just dull though. Still it doesn't deserve all the hate it gets from people who've never even tried it and just rag on it because its popular.

 

[Blow_Pop]

I, myself, am a Disney fanatic. That being said Jonas Brothers, Hannah Montana, all that shit needs to go away now.
and I tend to be a little of a Twilight fanatic. Just more closet fanatic than most people. Hell, my books are even in a closed box(only partially cause I don't have shelves and ALL my books are in boxes)

 

[Energylegzz]

I was playing Blackjack in my math class and I won a Twilight book from some Fan girl I killed it with fire....and roman candles.

 

[ICantBelieveItGoesBoom]

I'm a Twilight fan. . .(not the film)

Poncho, your friend? Go get him.

I hated it when it was a book, and when the movie came out, I just started staring at the matches at Dollarama.

Poncho? Dollarama?

Poncho14, previous page, Dollarama is a store in the mall here. Think a Canadian 99 cent store.

The matches there have dice in them, it's nice.

Well I hope my question answered your question.

Also if your posts are supposed to have an antagonistic tone to them, it's quite childish to suddenly hate me because I like a book series.

 

[tsb247]

Anyway point is, count yourself lucky if you've never met a Twilight fan in real life

Indeed. [http://twilightsucks.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=fangirls&action=display&thread=5175]

OT: Twilight fans and such are too young to use The Intarwebz. Well, not exactly, but they tend to go to more unintelligent places.

Having read some of the posts in that link you posted, I think I am going to make it my new weekend hobby to hang around my local Hot Topic and insult Twilight just to see if the fans will indeed get violent. I must see for myself!

I'll be sure to wear my fashionable kevlar.

 

[Cavouku]

I'm a Twilight fan. . .(not the film)

Poncho, your friend? Go get him.

I hated it when it was a book, and when the movie came out, I just started staring at the matches at Dollarama.

Poncho? Dollarama?

Poncho14, previous page, Dollarama is a store in the mall here. Think a Canadian 99 cent store.

The matches there have dice in them, it's nice.

Well I hope my question answered your question.

Also if your posts are supposed to have an antagonistic tone to them, it's quite childish to suddenly hate me because I like a book series.

Hey hey, I don't hate you because of your preferences. I kid now, you can't be touchy about things if you're going to be an obvious target.

I dislike the book series is all. And therefor I tease your liking of it; at least I don't hate on you for it. Consider yourself luckier than most people.

 

[TheGreenManalishi]

The popularity of crap things is often a lie, constructed purely to gain attention to said crap thing.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

The reason why you have never seen any here is because you have to be 13 to sign up.

 

[Ph0t0n1c Ph34r]

I have found that there are two different kind of Twilight fans. Those who have read the books (before the seeing the movie) and posses some merit of self-control and, dare I say, reason. Then there are the sub-human creatures that have seen the film and are drawn to the corpse-like charisma of the achtor who plays the lead role(forgot his nam, though he looks like he belongs outside a kindergarden in a van, or New Jersey, but I digress). These creatures, while not total fanatics, posses a hive-mind mentality, so if they gather in large groups, all goes to hell.

 

[Osloq]

A compatriot of mine in the anti twilight underground tells me that all those things were created by the government to destroy literacy rates. If people can't read the ballot boxes in elections then the mole people who control western civilisation can choose whoever they want without justifying it at all.

Or maybe this is just an oasis away from tweens who make up the majority of fans for that sort of entertainment.

I prefer the first option.

 

[dunnace]

If you think that when something is popular it maintains the majourity of the population you are mistaken my friends. These popular things aim themselves at fanatic core fan-bases, ones that will have an influence on the media. So in this case, it's teenagers and 'cool' people, so the media focuses on it.