Hils's journal

I'm far too lazy and crap to word an answer properly, so here's something I didn't prepare earlier, but isntead stole from Fan History Wiki:

The term originally meant any fandom based on a musical group or musician (band + fandom = bandom), as well as simply the world and life of being in a band. Since 2007 or so, the term has been used by parts of the My Chemical Romance, Fueled by Ramen, and other related fandoms on LiveJournal to mean their fandoms exclusively, in particular the communities that exist on LiveJournal.

Two different uses of bandom have become popular recently, an inclusive use and an exclusive one, used respectively by two different sections of band fandom. This has led to some contention between the two groups regarding the "correct" usage [1].

The inclusive use, most likely coined by rock band fandom members whose fannish activity takes place primarily on archives rather than LiveJournal, interprets bandom in the broadest sense: as a portmanteau of "band fandom", with no genre- or culture-based definitions of which bands are and are not covered. Can refer to band fandom as a whole, ie "I am a member of bandom", or to one or two individual band fandoms, ie "My bandoms are x, y, and z".

The other use is exclusive, as it refers to a specific group of bands and excludes the rest. Most likely coined on LiveJournal by people making the switch from traditional media fandom to RPF through My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Panic! At the Disco, and other related bands. Bandom in the exclusive sense refers to that group of related bands as a whole; the boundaries are somewhat loosely defined, so the specific bands covered by bandom in the exclusive sense vary from person to person.

I go with the inclusive meaning, as mostly because I was barely aware of it's exclusive context.

Now to go to sleep (I've been up since 1am, whoopie), or read more civil war? That's my random poll for the day :P

Well, all righty then. *chooses*