The five sub-classes of thing enjoyers are as follows:
- Friends
- Fiends
- Fans
- Stans
- Fetishists
Think about it: A skin fiend, a skin fan, a skin stan, a skin friend, and a skin fetishist all have massively different connotations, but still, all of these people LOVE skin.
Sometimes I entertain myself by idly thinking of the most abstracted and vague things for someone to enjoy in a community and, using these sub-classes of thing enjoyer, I imagine the community that enjoys these things in that particular way.
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The Velocity Stans aggressively go after people who walk slowly
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The Velocity Fiends drop pennies off of sky scrapers
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The Velocity Fetishists make 2 hour "ASMR" YouTube compilations of basic shapes being launched VERY fast with geeky physics stats in the corner
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The shape fandom is coming up with "Original Shapes" and arguing about if their new shapes are well rounded or too flat
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The shape friends just collect smooth stones from the ground and polish them
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The shape fetishists spend a lot of time messing with graphs
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The altruism stans are discoursing about if you should tweet about what you did today that was altruistic
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The altruism fiends are a pack of serial killers that go after landlords
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The altruism fetishists have to constantly have complex ethics discussions re: informed consent
anything I do that is selfless or good just gets me so hot it feels like a violation of consent to point out to someone that they dropped their wallet because they don't know I'm getting off on it but I can't help how I feel and so what do I let them lose their wallet?! Help?!
However, you cannot apply this schema to Feet. I don't think there's any way to describe a Feet-Appreciation Community that doesn't sound horny. Sorry, Foot Fandom.
