The Super Fan Stereotype

With another season of Survivor coming soon after quite a while off the air, it makes you wonder just how many, if any, super fans of the show we will see. I can’t remember offhand which season would have been the first that had this, but you see it a whole lot on the show nowadays.

 

What is a super fan? It is quite simple, really. Someone who loves the show a lot becomes a player and most of what they seem to be about on the show, at least starting out, is a fan who now gets to play Survivor and they are very knowledgeable about the past of the show.

 

Of course, knowing what has happened on the show in the past doesn’t mean that you know what will be happening in the game as it is going on. People are often going to target these people as if you know a lot about how Survivor works, then you are likely going to be a threat.

 

I’ll admit that these are at least always better than the contestants who we get from time to time that have not even seen Survivor and should have no business being on the show. I wouldn’t know just how often it appears as this is not surprisingly promoted on the show, but can appear at times on info that the show releases in the end.

 

Super fans on the show can go far or not make it as far as they would like. As with every type of player that we find on the show, it can vary just how much affect they will have on the season and how far they go. But they tend to only appear one at a time. You won’t see multiple super fans on one season at least as far as I remember.

 

There isn’t much else to say. I know that I won’t be posting an update of this blog next Wednesday as I have to yield it to another blog of mine. I tend to skip Wednesdays when I do a post of this blog on a day of the week that is not a Wednesday since I could conceivably do that next day of the week again the next week, but don’t as of yet. Anyways, I will be back as the schedule dictates and I’ll explain why I am jumping the gun with some of the other old season’s posts in the future before this month ends. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.