The word "stan" literally comes from a song about how being a stan is toxic and will destroy your lifehttps://twitter.com/CaseyExplosion/status/1339753497978388486 …
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Replying to @chibikonatsu @arthur_affect
Stan by Eminem CW: Suicide, Murderpic.twitter.com/8qsTVBPKzi
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Tl;dr for those on mobile: It’s about an obsessive fan (literally “stalker fan”=“Stan”) who sends Eminem constant fan mail and when Eminem doesn’t respond, he shoves his pregnant girlfriend in a trunk and drives it off a bridge. It’s then revealed that Em responded but too late.
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Wow. Okay.
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Replying to @chibikonatsu @HarvesterSteve
Music video starred a young Devon Sawa as Stan, with Dido (whose song "Thank You" is sampled in the chorus) playing the pregnant girlfriend Many years later Dido actually named her first child Stanley
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HarvesterSteve
So. Why does ANYONE use this term in a positive sense? Aside from "doing things ironically is the gateway drug to doing things for realsies?"
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Replying to @chibikonatsu @HarvesterSteve
I think a lot of people don't know the song and just think of it as short for "stalker-fan" Which is how Eminem came up with the name in the first place Not that that, you know, makes it better
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It's worth pointing out that "stan" replacing "fan" is just inflation "Fan" was originally short for "fanatic", and was also a negative term
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