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A stadium built out of living rooms. The fandom was never small. It just watched from the couch.

52% of the 1,320 streaming ads we labeled lead with an announcement: content news, dates, lineup drops. The category talks about itself; almost nobody makes the fan the hero. A film where the fan is the hero walks into the emptiest square on the board (Report 01).

Keep the fan at the center of every frame. The wave plays because reacting together is the one behavior every community shares (40%–63% of all comments). Joy is the common language; the stadium gives it scale.

Fantasy league night, cast from the league's real fans. The board is real and so are the names.

The board casts itself. Splitting proper names out of each fandom's distinctive vocabulary gives us a measured draft order: the names each community actually argues about, ranked by how much more they come up than in controls (Report 02, Finding 2.3).

Cast the board from the data, not from memory. We can hand wardrobe a per-fandom big board and refresh it every season. A new reunion swaps names in without a reshoot, which is the previs's own longevity plan.

Game-day ritual, finale edition. Face paint, lucky seat, kit check. Zero irony.

Nothing here needs inventing. Fandom runs on a schedule: premieres, reunions and finales land on dated fixtures (the season, below), and the switcher threads show people organizing subscriptions around them. Appointment viewing isn't a metaphor here. It's measured behavior.

Shoot the devotion completely straight. The expertise is real (fans hold receipts across seasons), so the "Seasons deep 14 · Episodes missed 0" stat card is documentary, not exaggeration. October sits inside the season, not ahead of it.

One couch, two allegiances. The tape line goes down the middle, love underneath.

Fans take sides at actual sports-fan rates: Summer House runs 17% of comments in open allegiance, above the sports-fan control (12%) and well above general TV talk (10%). Team-claiming is native behavior, not a borrowed trope (Report 02).

End the derby coverage in a verdict. The face-off's "one verdict from the TV" beat is the same judging voice the booth runs. The fixture-card social series can be cast from measured feuds: the names each fandom actually argues about.

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When a new franchise joins the lineup it gets the table, the jersey, the flashes.

Lineup is the argument switchers already have: 41 of 51 Philo switcher threads argue content and channels, 30 argue price (Report 04). Carriage news is news to this audience. They track it the way fans track transfers.

The ceremony format scales: every future carriage add re-uses the jersey and the folding table, and the events tracker below flags the moment to run it. Announcements are the category default. This is the one place to make one, played as sport.