r/dankmemes • u/luxusbuerg 🇱🇺MENG DOHEEMIES🗿👑 • Jan 23 '22

ancient wisdom found within Which opinion?

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u/WorldDominator56 Jan 23 '22

Dream is a very popular Minecraft YouTuber with a large fan base.

A Stan is someone who is obsessively fawning over any person or thing (the term comes from the Eminem song of the same name, in which the main character (Stan) obsesses over Eminem to such a degree he drives a car of a bridge with both him and his pregnant girlfriend in the car).

So a Dream Stan is someone who obsesses over Dream. Most people will say that “Stan” is just another way of saying “a big fan” but I will personally forever interpret it in a negative light for the Eminem song

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u/VulpesSophos Jan 23 '22

TIL where Stan comes from

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u/PandaHipster_ Jan 23 '22

iirc correctly it’s a combination of the words “stalker” and “fan”

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '22

It's not. That's something people made up later as they saw a potential portmanteau.

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u/PandaHipster_ Jan 23 '22

Yeah looked it up shortly after posting that comment and seems like it was just a theory for why Eminem chose the name. My bad.

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u/ELL_YAY Jan 23 '22

Even if wrong it actually does fit as an accurate description of the name.