I was born in 1998. “Backstreet’s Back” wasn’t even one-year-old yet and “Millennium” would come out exactly one year later.
Fangirl Blog Posts
Video: The Fangirl Diaries – Episode 6 – 80s Movie
Yep, it's time for another edition of The Fangirl Diaries! This time I tackle "The Masked Singer" for the last time, discuss Nick Carter's...
Class 4: Getting Social – The Basics of How to Run A Fan Account and Make It Marketable
Signing up for a social media account is easy. In fact, it’s probably the easiest thing about running a social media account, especially if you’re running it from a “fandom” point-of-view.
When I first signed up for Twitter, I never once thought that I would be using it for the greater fangirl good. In fact, right when Twitter first came out, I was taking an independent study class my senior year of college where I wrote a new age internet guide for college newspapers.
Fangirl Collecting: Tips on how to start and not get ripped off.
The other day I was discussing with friends the promotional soda cans that had the Backstreet Boys faces on them and how I thought they were...
Class 2: Fangirl Personas: In a room full of fangirls, who are you?
A lot of people don’t think about what kind of fangirl they are – they just are one.
Class 1: Introduction: The Art of Fangirling
A fangirl can be your typical teenager who buys teenybopper magazines for posters of BTS. A fangirl can be your college student who still loves that band that won her heart when she was a little girl. A fangirl can be an adult with a job and life who loves an artist, movie franchise, group, or sports star with all of her heart.
When Fangirling Turns Toxic (+ What To Do When it Does!)
Fangirl: To behave in an obsessive or overexcited way.
Guilty. As. Charged.
When you get Fangirl Q&A’s from Non-@BackstreetBoys fans
“I wish I was as dedicated and loyal to ANYTHING in my life as you are to the Backstreet Boys.” – Former Co-Worker
Whether she meant it as a compliment or not, my former co-worker expressed a sentiment shared by many colleagues and friends in my life. And, as with most foreign concepts, there is a lot of curiosity around what it means to be a Backstreet Boys “fangirl.” Here are a few of the most frequently asked questions from people outside the fandom and my best responses (feel free to adapt and recycle where appropriate!).
Thoughts: Being a perfectionist fangirl is a hard life to lead
Everything has to be perfect. Right? That's what I always think, but does it ever turn out the way I want it? Yeah, not really. I bought a...
My fangirling life in one post…
As I sit in the Intensive Care Unit while my mother is laying, unconscious (but sedated) and on a ventilator, I'm reading "The Fangirl Life," a...
Why I backed “I Used To Be Normal” and why, if you can, you should, too (@boybandfangirl_)
A week or so ago I stumbled across a link to the Kickstarter page for a documentary called "I Used To Be Normal - A Boy Band Fangirl Story" and...
Q&A: 5 questions with ‘I Used To Be Normal’ filmmaker Jessica Leski (@boybandfangirl_)
If you hadn't heard, two Australia women are making the story of my life (no pun intended) and yours too - the fangirl story. Jessica and Rita...
Thoughts: How being a @BackstreetBoys fan prepared me for other fandoms
I have been going to concerts since I was in fourth grade and I saw New Kids on the Block for the first time. My mother, who bought the...