Fanboy

Noun · Hacker Culture

Definitions

  1. A slang term for someone who shows intense, often uncritical enthusiasm for a brand, platform, company, or technology. In tech culture it is usually used pejoratively when loyalty seems to outweigh evidence or nuance.

    In plain English: Someone with intense and often uncritical loyalty to a brand or technology.

    Example: "The discussion was impossible to keep grounded because every benchmark turned into a brand war between fanboys of different hardware ecosystems."

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