Stan culture had a lot to do with the rise of social media (especially twitter), too.
I remember keeping a list of every single WW trending topic the monsters had in 2011.
And Britney stans sending me death threats because I had the top tweet on the Hold It Against Me tag and my tweet was something like "Paused Gaga's Monster to listen to HIAM. Shrugged and went back to listening to Monster."
I'm so happy we've moved beyond trending topics mattering.

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Originally posted by Meowster
There's a direct correlation between Gags emerging and making things provocative and interesting and her death immediately causing album sales to wither and decay as well as pop culture fading so far that Nick Jonas was considered stan worthy.
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the correlation of her death and declining album sales does not indicate causation.