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This article looks at how a persons values can link with what fandom grouping they choose to incorporate themselves in. This suggests that fandoms link people with more than just a liking of a band, game, film but links people with similar personalities and traits/ beliefs. Different fandoms have different beliefs, motto's, views and ways in which they behave which distinguish the fandom, this is built slowly by all the different personalities of the fans leaking together.