SuperWhoLock

About

SuperWhoLock is the name of the fandom that is an inexplicable conjoining of three other large TV show fandoms, namely: Supernatural, Doctor Who, and Sherlock. It is infamous on Tumblr for being what is known as what has been the largest most prevalent fandom in the site.

History

Supernatural is a show from CW that begun airing in 2005, while BBC's Sherlock aired in 2010, and Doctor Who has been around since 1963, but truly began to shine in today's pop culture when it was relaunched in 2005^[4][5][6]. The earliest known instance of superwholock trending is on January 2012.

Reception

The internet news site The Daily Dot wrote an article titled "WTF is Superwholock?" which aptly defined the super fandom as a massive crossover spewing multiple fan-art and fanfiction^[1].

On the April Fool's Day of 2014, news site Hypable published an article titled "The BBC and CW announce joint ‘SuperWhoLock’ show coming in 2014" which hyped the fans with a fake article about the shows coming together for a 10 episode mini series^[2].

Impact

As SuperWhoLock is a combination of three different fandoms, the three have impacted each other greatly. As a tumblr superpower, it has affected the various fandoms within the site as well. Some of Urban Dictionary's definitions of the term criticize Superwholock as "the Bermuda Triangle of Tumblr" and the fandom is "nothing more than a bunch of egotistical pricks who think they run Tumblr and try to shove it down your throat^[3]."

Fandom

The general reputation of the fandom is that the members are loud and obnoxious, and are into the shows purely 'for the plot', which in this case, are the handsome British actors. However, it is a common misconception to believe that each and every member of the three fandoms are ecstatic about superwholock; some members believe that while they enjoy all the three shows, they only want the crossover to appear occassionally, and others would even argue that they dislike the whole crossover entirely^[1].

Tumblr

Tumblr is where Superwholock originated from and is currently where it is most notorious. The tag #superwholock is highly active in tumblr with new posts appearing constantly^[7].

Multiple blogs such as 'Official Superwholock' and 'superwholock' have taken it upon themselves to upload various content that crossovers between the three fandoms^[8][9]. Ask blogs such as 'Ask the SuperWhoLock Gang' have also been created for roleplayers to assume the roles of the main characters of the series to answer questions that revolve around the other characters from a different party^[10].

Notable Examples

The tag #superwholock yields 2,325 results at Deviantart^[11].

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