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  • noun Behaviour characteristic of fanboys; blind, aggressive devotion.

Etymologies

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fanboy +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • Imagining fanboyism is many orders of magnitude worse than simply being a fanboy, imo.

    7stacks Does OS X Stacks In Windows 7 Style | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • Cargill's absud fanboyism is starting to get to me right now - I mean, I'm one of the few people who genuinely like Ruffalo but he had so little to do in this film it's hard to imagine how he could be 'great'.

    /Filmcast Ep. 88 - Shutter Island (GUEST: C. Robert Cargill from Aint It Cool News) | /Film 2010

  • So over the weekend, Aberrant Gamer elaborated on just how powerful fanboyism is in the game industry -- how none of us can escape it, and how we can't help it being a factor in review scores, either.

    Archive 2008-03-01 SVGL 2008

  • Apple fanboyism is generally a reaction to the sheer pleasure of working on a Mac.

    Fanboys Are Stupid, But You Are Not - Anil Dash 2007

  • Destructoid, BioShock 2 creative director Jordan Thomas discussed the idea of fanboyism and how it applied to the console wars.

    The Escapist : Latest News John Funk 2010

  • Logically these conflicts of fact would suggest a strong bias, hence the accusation of "fanboyism".

    confusion 2006

  • If you take the OS "fanboyism" out of the picture and just assume both pieces of hardware ran a free copy of Linux for example, you'd see very clearly that the consumer is getting a better deal by choosing non-Apple hardware.

    Neowin.net / All 2009

  • If you take the OS "fanboyism" out of the picture and just assume both pieces of hardware ran a free copy of Linux for example, you'd see very clearly that the consumer is getting a better deal by choosing non-Apple hardware. shakey_snake on 05 Apr 2009 - 01: 20

    Neowin.net / All 2009

  • More From Our Gaming Network im not sure if its so much "fanboyism" as much as it is good / poor development and production value.

    Joystiq 2009

  • More From Our Gaming Network im not sure if its so much "fanboyism" as much as it is good / poor development and production value.

    Joystiq 2009

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