Get to know the (mostly) teenage fandoms that follow influencers like it's their job:
Celebrity obsession has manifested in myriad ways throughout history. In the '20s, you might have paid monetary dues to a fan club that sent out a monthly journal about a beloved movie star; in the '90s, you might have set up a Geocities page dedicated to your favorite boy band. In 2018, if you want to show how much you really, deeply care about someone famous, you start a social media account tracking their every move.
Anna, a 20-year-old Italian fan of the couple's, says she cried while watching Fedez propose to Ferragni on stage at a concert last May. While a crowd of thousands got to witness the moment IRL, Anna watched on Instagram, and the next day she created her fan account, @chiaraefedezfanpage, where she and her best friend, Maddalena, could post photos and videos of their favorite couple.
Still, Anna says, the pair has had to learn some boundaries. Other fan pages message them often, and while they're happy to give advice , they don't promote other accounts, since they've found that doing so opens the floodgates to dozens more requesting the same. She says it can be hard to find time to post since she's currently in school and takes care of her little sister, but she's still managed to build up a following of more than 11,000 over the years, and thinks it's "crazy" that she gets more than 100 likes on each post. Coelho liked her first-ever post on the account, and since they now follow each other, she can message her directly.
Anna says she first followed Mirsalehi on Instagram in 2014 because she heard she was Persian, like her, and came to admire the blogger's 11-year relationship with her boyfriend, Maurits Stibbe, along with her style and personality.
Marie, 21, from Chicago, runs @somethingicons, an account dedicated to Arielle Charnas, the New York-based blogger behind Something Navy. She says she wanted a place to keep up with Charnas's family and friends — including her fashion stylist sister, Danielle Nachmani — and couldn't find anywhere that compiled all of their content in one place.
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