My general take on literary fandom is that it mostly had a collective fit about all the "fringefans" showing up and making their conventions big and unwieldy, and invited them to GTFO. Which they did. Now that litfans are graying and dying off, they're wondering what happened to the new blood...
That may well have a lot of truth to it; also, a lot of media and comics fans tended to sneer at or blow off traditional fandom's traditions and sacred cows.
The first ones to split off, though, were the UFO buffs; they were swarming into SF cons for a while to such an extent that fandom was in some danger of becoming a fringe of the UFO thing.
That would have been before my time - or maybe there just weren't as many of those in Baltimore/Washington fandom. At any rate, the first bunch I remember being looked down on and denigrated were the Trekkies.
A lot of Trekkies/Trekkers were seen as ignorant of SF in general, from what I've heard. And there were some fears that Trek would just overwhelm everything else.
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The first ones to split off, though, were the UFO buffs; they were swarming into SF cons for a while to such an extent that fandom was in some danger of becoming a fringe of the UFO thing.
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This was long before I got involved in fandom.
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