1996·Early web, before YouTube
Shipping
Wanting two characters together, as an organised activity with its own grammar.
A trend people joined in with
- SourceNo single original
- MediaNot held by ViralWorld
What this was
Naming and advocating a relationship between characters, with portmanteau names, ship wars and a vocabulary — canon, OTP, crack ship — that escaped fandom entirely. Named on X-Files newsgroups in the 1990s and made a mass activity by LiveJournal and Tumblr.
It first appeared in 1996, during early web, before YouTube.
Early web, before YouTube
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Related
Nothing related yet. Relationships are recorded where evidence supports them, not inferred from similarity.
Behind the recordWhere it came from
There is no original to identify: this spread through many separate posts at once rather than from a first one. ViralWorld holds no copy of it either — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is the record.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this, because research established there was not one — it appeared in many places at once.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
- What happens
- Naming and advocating a relationship between characters, with portmanteau names, ship wars and a vocabulary — canon, OTP, crack ship — that escaped fandom entirely. Named on X-Files newsgroups in the 1990s and made a mass activity by LiveJournal and Tumblr.