Homestar Runner
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[edit] Introduction
Homestar Runner was created in 1996 by Mike Chapman and Craig Zobel. In January 2000, homestarrunner.com went online. The content on the site is created and maintained by Mike and Matt Chapman, who refer to themselves as The Brothers Chaps.
[edit] The Show
Homestar Runner is a web cartoon about, in the words of Mike Chapman, "dumb animal characters". The most popular feature on the site is the Strong Bad Emails, in which Strong Bad, one of the main characters, answers an email from a fan. The toons are typically three to five minutes long.
[edit] Terminology
Below is a list of terms and their definitions that are used in this fan community.
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[edit] Timeline
Below is a partial timeline of events that took place in this fan community.
[edit] 2001
- On November 17, 2001, the LiveJournal community homestar_runner was created. [1]
[edit] 2002
- On June 17, 2002, an English language article about Homestar Runner was created on Wikipedia. [2]
[edit] 2003
- On September 3, 2003, the LiveJournal community homsar was created. [3]
- On May 19, 2003, The Big Race by Hekima became the first Homestar Runner story published on FanFiction.Net. [4][5]
- On August 28, 2003, the icon LiveJournal community homestaricons was created. [6]
- On December 13, 2003, the LiveJournal community _homestarrunner was created. [7]
[edit] 2005
- On January 16, 2005, the Homestar Runner fanlisting was created by Claire, the maintainer of mostly-harmness.net. [8]
- On December 5, 2005, a Spanish language article about Homestar Runner was created on Wikipedia. [9]
[edit] 2006
- On February 25, 2006, the FanFiction.Net forum HAVoC's Homestarverse was created. [10][11]
- On March 23, 2006, the FanFiction.Net forum Scroll Buttons was created. [12]
- On April 16, 2006, a German language article about Homestar Runner was created on Wikipedia. [13]
- On December 6, 2006, the FanFiction.Net forum Homestarrunnerrules99's Homestar runner forum was created. [14][15]
[edit] 2007
- In January 2007, the fansite Homestar Runner Network was created. [16] The site is about making connections between Homestar Runner communities.
- On June 24, 2007, oneinnabun made the following characterization about this fandom:
- Homestar Runner: Almost exclusively gen, I can count the number of slash fics on the fingers of one hand. The only het is in either self-insertion fics, or on the sidelines of a gen fic. [17]
[edit] Kerfluffles
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[edit] Influential Fanworks
[edit] Fan Fiction
[edit] Fandom Members
[edit] Fandom Size
The fandom is fairly small.
[edit] March 2008
As of March 13, 2008, there are 106 fans on FanPop, [18] and 105 stories on FanFiction.Net. [19] As of March 13, 2008, The Homestar Wiki has 1,952 articles. [20]
[edit] External Links
- The Homestar Runner Wiki
- The Homestar Runner Fanstuff Wiki
- Homestar Runner: FanPop
- Homestar Runner: FanWorksFinder
[edit] See also
[edit] Sources
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