unstan
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unstan (third-person singular simple present unstans, present participle unstanning, simple past and past participle unstanned)
- (slang, transitive, intransitive) To stop acting as a stan (for); to cease to be an obsessive fan (of).
- 2017 July 11, Gabe Bergado, “Popular Kendall Jenner Fan Account Has Decided to Stop Supporting Her”, in Teen Vogue[1]:
- It's indisputable that Kendall Jenner is a powerhouse in today's world of entertainment and fashion. But after what have many seen as multiple misguided choices, one prominent fan account has decided to take a stand and actively unstan the 21-year-old.
- 2019 September 16, Shannon Barbour, “Noah Centineo Just Bleached His Beard and It’s Literally Making His Fans Unstan”, in Cosmopolitan[2]:
- He now has a flesh-colored situation covering his cheeks and chin, and it’s making people unstan. […] Noah tried to post a video saying he didn’t bleach his beard, but these eyeballs don’t lie. And this news is so distressing that some fans are threatening to unstan him.
- 2022, Kaitlyn Tiffany, Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page unknown:
- The night was ruined, and she went home in a rage. “I was really upset in the moment,” she said. “I had a picture of him [Harry Styles] standing on the flag and I was so mad. I had even considered just unstanning completely because it was so awful. I went off the rails.”