User blog comment:Thebiggesttdifan/A Survey/@comment-3483396-20121224074211/@comment-1874924-20121227052347

OHF is right. Being a fan (a word derived from "fanatic") is a state of mind, not a timeline. At its most basic, being a fan of something merely means that you like that thing well enough to seek it out, whether you discovered it when it first came out or decades later. Indeed, there are fans who didn't even like the object of their fandom at first, but later came to love it passionately.