Vanderbilt fans.
I haven’t actually known any people who are part of a fanbase. I will say that here on SD, whenever someone starts to talk about Star Trek in the context of the rest of culture, I completely skim the post.
Second jam band fans, especially those who follow Phish, Widespread Panic, and moe. . It’s one thing to be a fan of a band. It’s another to follow them from city to city, obsess over collecting every concert tape, and like what Big Bad Voodoo Lou said, play the seemingly self-contradictory role of an affluent hippie.
A close second are “Slashdotters” – fanatic Linux users. Third are Dale Earnhardt fans who are still mourning the crash of Number Three.
What’s with the arm-swaying, anyhow?
Great minds think alike. You probably posted it as I just started typing.
“Number three, like the Trinity. Just like you got God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost, y’all got Dale, Dale Junior, and the track. Went to race in a better place. Sniff …”
You mean there ARE Vandy fans? I’m in shock.
My vote goes to Duke fans. Most of them are the worst kind of bandwagoneers who only profess to like Duke because they always weasel their way into the Elite Eight. Oh, and Coach K is a lizard.
Fans of any sports team that blinds them to that team’s faults.
I had a friend who was a diehard Atlanta Falcons fan. Depsite their many years of suckage in the 80’s, it was NEVER their fault. He could come up with the most bizarre, far-fetched excuses for these guys.
Accept the fact that your team might just suck.
Well there’s this group of people that have gatherings based upon this strange ‘answer me this’ column in alternate news publications… 
But what’s scariest are the Batman fans who think that vigilantes are a viable form of law enforcement.
I don’t have a specific fandom to nominate, but… the thing that annoys me about fans in general is when they assume a hostility or rivalry that doesn’t need to exist. I particularly remember a post on the SDMB a few years back pointing out that Revenge of the Sith was being released on DVD the same day as the special extended edition of Return of the King. This poster, who was pro-LOTR, and apparently believed that a rivalry existed between LOTR and Star Wars, was bemoaning the fact that ROTS would probably outsell the ROTK EE, because the ROTK was an EE, and that this would artificially inflate the ROTS sales numbers when compared to ROTK, and that the Star Wars fans would presumably use this to lord it over the LOTR fans.
Wha? You like LOTR? Great. So do I. You want to go to conventions? Well, I might do that on a whim some time, but it’s not really my thing, but I will CERTAINLY not judge you for it. In fact, if it’s something you love and you get to spend time with similar people, go for it! Have a great time. But what makes you think you need to construct this artificial rivalry? Why can someone not enjoy both Star Wars AND LOTR? Why must they be battling for nerd primacy?
To misquote a classic The Onion article, “when will the lamewads and dorkwads sit down and play Magic: The Gathering at the table of peace?”
Any fans who take it beyond fun.
I stay out of discussions of which is better, Trek, Wars, Buffy, etc… because as long as YOU like it, that’s fine by me. Likewise, when you tell me I’m lacking in some way because of MY OWN PERSONAL TASTE, then you need to go to hell and sit on a firecracker.
Taste is taste. If I think what you like is lame, no use trying to convince me otherwise. Same vise versa.
(I don’t know how many times I’ve had to say this, irl and online…)
I heard that some Whedon fans boycotted the Serenity TV show because a character they liked on Buffy was killed. That’s the sign of a delusional mind, IMO.
No mention of Apple yet? The more fervent end of the “fan-base” has to be the most annoying on Earth. Though, the linux users elmwood describes aren’t too far behind.
Other than that I’m bereft–the sort of personality cult fandom described isn’t IMO as strong in Britain as in the US, not among people I know personally anyway.
Claymates - fans of Clay Aiken
This group seems to consist of women approaching (and surpassing) AARP membership age and 12 year old girls.
I’m with bluecanary: Apple users.
People who take anything anyone says, and tries to turn it into an excuse for a pop-culture referen-
Oh, did you say bluecanary, one note splelled L-i-t-e!
Oh, and people who use diffrent colors in their posts.
Q. How do you make a Trustafarian starve to death?
A. Hide his gold card under the soap.
I love hanging out with Goths. My wife’s best friend is a huge Trekkie. I own many seasons of Joss Whedon’s shows on DVD. My friends and I have a weekly D&D game.
The most annoying aspect of any fanbase is the ones who can’t laugh at themselves. There’s no particular fanbase I can think of that especially annoys me.
Daniel
How do you stop a hippie from dancing?
Cut his arms off.
What’s red and yellow and looks good on a hippie?
Fire.
I’ll just say sports fans in general. Say what you want about the trekkies, goths, otaku, Whedonites, warsies, furries, fansubbers, Phisheads, or My Little Pony aficianados, at least thier hobbies don’t lead them to burn down major cities. And, aside from the occasional Buffy-fan, they almost never wear cheese on their heads.
It worked for Star Trek.
Exactly my view. Also, people who take to using their enjoyment of some fictional work as an identifying characteristic of their personality. The ones seem to think that what “fandoms” they belong to are what give their life meaning.
I’m such a dork. I read this post and think “claymates, hmm that was a kind of mediocre SNES game.”
Hey, now. There’s lots of people on Slashdot who aren’t Linux fanatics. We all know that BSD kicks ass.