Citations:lolfan

Noun: "(fandom slang) a fan whose appreciation of something (generally a book, movie, or television show) is mainly ironic"

 * 2010, Liv Spencer, Love Bites: The Unofficial Saga of Twilight, pages 192 and 194:
 * Lurking on the periphery of the Twilight fandom are the lolfans. Though their feelings toward the books range from dedicated love to impassioned enmity, a lolfan's primary reason for reading the Twilight series and watching the films is the amusement they derive from them.
 * 2012, Sarah Wagenseller Goletz, "The Giddyshame Paradox: Why 'Twilight' Anti-Fans Cannot Stop Reading a Series They (Love to) Hate", in Genre, Reception, and Adaptation in the Twilight Series (ed. Anne Morey), unnumbered page:
 * It is this "giddyshame" that has helped the series to produces a strange phenomenon: a dual audience, equally fanatical on both ends, consisting of those who unabashedly love the books, dubbed "Twihards," and those who hate loving/love hating the books, dubbed "Lolfans" (Laugh-Out-Loud-Fans").
 * 2013, Sarah Harman & Bethan Jones, "Fifty Shades of Ghey: fandom and the figure of the anti-fan", Sexualities, Volume 16, Number 8, December 2013, page 957:
 * Macros and other explicitly humorous productions form a major part of the site, with ‘lolfans’ (the term Klink uses for people who read the books solely for the purpose of snarking on them) contributing many of the texts.
 * 2017, Ashley J. Barner, The Case for Fanfiction: Exploring the Pleasures and Practices of a Maligned Craft, page 102:
 * "I'm kinda generalising here, but one thing I have noticed is that Twihaters or lolfans [people who enjoy Twilight because they enjoy making fun of it] are usually smarter than the average fangirl, who has trouble stringing together a sentence.
 * 2018, Ruth Page, Narratives Online: Shared Stories in Social Media, page 156:
 * Typically, this participatory practice is associated with 'lolfans': those who engage with a media product with the purpose of mocking it in forms of satirical humour (Klink, 2010, p. 23).

Noun: "(slang) a fan of lolcat images"

 * 2007, Raquel Maria Dillon, "Lolcats: Ize in yur bookmarx, makn u laff", The Seattle Times, 3 July 2007:
 * Initially, the site collected lolcats from other Web sites. Now lolfans email hundreds of captioned photos each day, creating a backlog of 5,000 submissions.