In spring 2020, with most national football (soccer) leagues being suspended, fans from around the world turned to the Belarusian Premier League — Europe’s only championship to continue amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In March, a group of Australian football fans created the FK Slutsk Worldwide Facebook group, dedicated to the eponymous Belarusian club, which quickly transformed into a diverse online community. Initially, the group demonstrated many features of ironic fandom, with members producing various humorous forms and performing exaggerated loyalty in recognition of the peculiar circumstances behind the intense international focus on an otherwise unremarkable team. As time passed and the Facebook group community evolved, however, the practices of ironic fandom began to give way to attributes of a genuine fandom. Through an examination of the group’s development, this paper makes a case for viewing the relationship between ironic and genuine fandom not in oppositional, but in temporal terms. It argues that, in order for a fandom to sustain itself, it must be rooted in a shared sensibility that is not limited to a sense of irony, and that a transition from ironic to genuine fandom stems from this sensibility taking precedence over the ironic aspect.

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“我们是为荡妇而来的，但为荡妇而留下来的”：FK Slutsk在具有讽刺意味和真正的足球迷之间的全球Facebook页面

在2020年春季，由于大多数国家足球（足球）联赛被暂停，世界各地的球迷转向了白俄罗斯超级联赛-这是欧洲唯一在COVID-19大流行期间继续保持的冠军。3月，一群澳大利亚足球迷创建了FK Slutsk Worldwide Facebook小组，致力于同名的白俄罗斯俱乐部，该俱乐部迅速转变为多元化的在线社区。最初，该小组表现出许多具有讽刺意味的狂热特征，其成员表现出各种幽默的形式并表现出夸张的忠诚度，以表彰国际社会对一支本来就不那么出色的团队的强烈关注背后的特殊情况。但是，随着时间的流逝和Facebook团体社区的发展，具有讽刺意味的狂热行为开始被真正的狂热属性所取代。通过考察小组的发展，本文提出了一个反讽和真正的狂热之间的关系，而不是以对立的方式，而是以时间上的角度进行观察的案例。它辩称，为了使狂热分子得以维持自身，它必须植根于一种共享的情感上，而这种情感不仅限于讽刺感，而且从讽刺性向真正的狂热性的转变源于这种敏感性优先于讽刺性方面。