Citations:popslash

Noun: "(fandom slang) slash fan fiction which pairs pop musicians, especially ones belonging to the same boy band"

 * 2006, Kristina Busse, "'I'm jealous of the fake me': Postmodern subjectivity and identity construction in boy band fan fiction", in Framing Celebrity: New Directions in Celebrity Culture (eds. Su Holmes & Sean Redmond), Routledge (2006), ISBN 0415377099, page 254:
 * Popslash writers use pop stars as their protagonists, constructing fictional narratives that supplement and enhance those disseminated by the media.
 * 2006, Francesca Coppa, "A Brief History of Media Fandom", in Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays (eds. Karen Hellekson & Kristina Busse), McFarland & Company (2006), ISBN 9780786426409, page 56:
 * Consequently, popslash grew popular among media fan writers, many of whom created similarly brilliant and science fiction-like premises to explore celebrity culture as a metaphor for gender identity and other performances of the self.
 * 2011, Katherine Meizel, Idolized: Music, Media, and Identity in American Idol, Indiana University Press (2011), ISBN 9780253355713, page 46:
 * The popslash phenomenon gathered momentum after a 2001 story that imagined Chris Kirkpatrick of the band 'N Sync experiencing a sudden overnight gender change,
 * The popslash phenomenon gathered momentum after a 2001 story that imagined Chris Kirkpatrick of the band 'N Sync experiencing a sudden overnight gender change,