Citations:blorbo

Noun: "(fandom slang) synonym of blorbo from my shows"

 * 2022, Stitch, "Turning Red Shows Fandom at Its Most Unrealistic", Slate, 26 April 2022:
 * Watching Meilin doodle wistfully, viewers said it reminded them of their own entries into a new fandom, or having their fandom urges activated by a new blorbo or the latest Korean idol group to pop onto their radar.
 * 2022, Stitch, "On White Queer Fandom and the Erasure of Fans of Color", Teen Vogue, 15 July 2022:
 * In queer fandom spaces we choose what characters to turn into our little meow meows or our blorbos.
 * 2022, uknightED, "'Instead of Midterms, We Should Have...?", mathNEWS (University of Waterloo), 17 June 2022, page 1:
 * Then again, I'd end up getting called a 'blorbo ' or whatever kids call their comfort characters these days.
 * 2022, Rebecca Ford, "JUST IN: Popular Celebrity Turns Out Not To Be A Good Person" (satirical article), Big Blue News (Freeman High School, Adams, Nebraska), 28 October 2022, page 4:
 * “This affects me more than anyone else,” said a third fan, who was not directly affected by anything that happened. “I care about my blorbo so much. I was chronically online for him. I gave up years of my life to pour over his every single action. You can’t trust anyone anymore.”
 * 2022, Gita Jackson, "Interview With the Vampire’s Lestat is everyone’s favorite horrible character for a reason", Polygon, 6 November 2022:
 * Lestat isn’t the only or most significant morally deficient blorbo, but for many other blorbos he might as well be the blueprint.
 * 2022, Stitch, "On Woobification and Why Infantilizing Villains Can Harm Useful Discourse", Teen Vogue, 7 November 2022:
 * We are literally not allowed to talk negatively/critically about the bad things villains do — even when we say explicitly that we like the characters we’re talking about — because he’s their blorbo or little meow meow now and fandom has decided to make that position sacred.
 * 2023, "theoderofthetriad", quoted in Kris Jones, Scott Storm, & Alex Corbitt, "Literary play gone viral: delight, intertextuality, and challenges to normative interpretations through the digital serialization of Dracula", English Teaching: Practice & Critique, Volume 22, Issue 2 (link):
 * Love that the new Tumblr blorbo is for the most part not being referred to as a blorbo
 * 2023, TJ Alexander, "What I’m Doing While Waiting for the ‘Our Flag Means Death’ Season 2 Trailer", The Mary Sue, 7 April 2023:
 * In lieu of a trailer or any other announcement, I, along with the boatloads of people who fell in love with season one, have taken to scouring the internet for any scrap of information that could provide some insight into when my seafaring blorbos will come home from the war.
 * 2023, Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, "What does babygirl mean? And why does it refer to middle-aged men?", The Daily Dot, 10 May 2023:
 * If you go by Urbandictionary‘s definition, there’s some overlap between babygirl guys and blorbos, the Tumblr slang for fan-favorite characters.
 * 2023, Olivia Waite, "A Handful of Luscious, Soapy, Sexy Romance Novels", The New York Times, 31 October 2023:
 * Of course, all your blorbos are back for the big magical confrontation between those who crave power and those who defend against its abuses.
 * 2023, "theoderofthetriad", quoted in Kris Jones, Scott Storm, & Alex Corbitt, "Literary play gone viral: delight, intertextuality, and challenges to normative interpretations through the digital serialization of Dracula", English Teaching: Practice & Critique, Volume 22, Issue 2 (link):
 * Love that the new Tumblr blorbo is for the most part not being referred to as a blorbo
 * 2023, TJ Alexander, "What I’m Doing While Waiting for the ‘Our Flag Means Death’ Season 2 Trailer", The Mary Sue, 7 April 2023:
 * In lieu of a trailer or any other announcement, I, along with the boatloads of people who fell in love with season one, have taken to scouring the internet for any scrap of information that could provide some insight into when my seafaring blorbos will come home from the war.
 * 2023, Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, "What does babygirl mean? And why does it refer to middle-aged men?", The Daily Dot, 10 May 2023:
 * If you go by Urbandictionary‘s definition, there’s some overlap between babygirl guys and blorbos, the Tumblr slang for fan-favorite characters.
 * 2023, Olivia Waite, "A Handful of Luscious, Soapy, Sexy Romance Novels", The New York Times, 31 October 2023:
 * Of course, all your blorbos are back for the big magical confrontation between those who crave power and those who defend against its abuses.