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The first fandom was formed when readers refused to move on. Still happening.

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Fandoms in a modern sense grew in the 20th century, for example around Sherlock Holmes, whose readers reacted when Arthur Conan Doyle killed him off. Earlier devotion existed, but there is no single first fandom.

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