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Here it is discussed how tight knit and picky 'Beleibers' are. A girl that was openly not a 'beleiber' showed appreciation towards his work, Justin retweeted this compliment for the girl to be met by anger and threats off 'Beleibers'. This again emphasises what I discussed in my last post about negative press about said fandoms, creating a bad name for the whole idea. But as discussed in this article, it is only a tiny minority of the fandom which acts outrageously and creates a bad name for the rest of the fans.  This behaviour may be seen as an outcry for attention off given artist, if they act as crazy and outrageously as possible he may acknowledge them giving them exactly what they want. This is a very unlikely thing to happen due to the fact that the artist will probably have management and people telling him not to do this as it is almost condoning the awful behaviour, giving them what they want. This again backs up my discussion about how 'Beleibers' are mainly a social media based fandom. It is very unlikely that these threats will be carried out as discussed in above article, contrasting sports fans who often clash in person to 'Beleibers' who come across as a more web based collective.