A person who dislikes something (generally a creativework, fictionalcharacter, or person), but is still interested in it, devoting time to mocking or criticizing it.
2010, Jessica Sheffield & Elyse Merlo, "Twilight Anti-Fandom and the Rhetoric of Superiorty", in Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, & the Vampire Franchise (eds. Melissa A. Click, Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, & Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz), Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. (2010), ISBN 9781433108938, page 212:These anti-fans often claim to act out of concern for young Twilight fans who may look to Twilight's characters— and author— as role models.
2013, Mark Duffet, Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture, Bloomsbury Academic (2013), ISBN 9781623565855, page 49:Jonathan Gray describes these anti-fans by saying, 'Opposed and yet in some ways similar to the fan is the anti-fan: he/she who actively and vocally hates or dislikes a given text, personality, or genre' (2005, 840).
2014, Don Tresca, "Spellbound: An Analysis of Adult-Oriented Harry Potter Fanfiction", in Fan CULTure: Essays on Participatory Fandom in the 21st Century (eds Kristin M. Barton & Jonathan Malcolm Lampley), McFarland & Company (2014), ISBN 9780786474189, page 40:Such stories are generally considered the work of Harry Potter anti-fans, a group of individuals who actively dislike the books or the films (or both) and seek to degrade the characters in various and sundry ways (Hetcher 7).
