Buffy/Angel's an interesting case as Joss Whedon was also a celebrity as much as the actors and in a way, even moreso. Many fans of BtVS/AtS seem to drift on to Firefly/Serenity and then Dollhouse plus the comics although I do get the impression that it was the male contingent that moved on, leaving a largely female fandom writing and reading fanfiction and meta for Buffy and Angel.
I wouldn't say so. Fandon has always made celebrities out of writers/creators. George Lucas, Gene Roddenberry, Sam Raimi, Jim Henson, Terry Nation, Russell T. Davies, and Michael Straczynski are or were as big or bigger than Whedon. I do think Whedon is unusual in that his follow-up projects have garnered a fan following (although apparently not enough of one.) He's also unusual in that his follow-up projects are actually good, so that might be a big factor.
As for why there are more female fans, that's hard to say. Buffy seemed to corrospond to a big influx of women into fandom in general, but whether that was Buffy specifically, the rise of the internet, larger generational changes, or something else is hard to say. I have seen a lot of Buffy fans migrate to other properties, but these seem to be largely female-fan-based, too (Torchwood, for instance.) Perhaps that's a topic for someone with more spare time than I to look into.
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Date: 2009-12-01 07:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-01 04:09 pm (UTC)As for why there are more female fans, that's hard to say. Buffy seemed to corrospond to a big influx of women into fandom in general, but whether that was Buffy specifically, the rise of the internet, larger generational changes, or something else is hard to say. I have seen a lot of Buffy fans migrate to other properties, but these seem to be largely female-fan-based, too (Torchwood, for instance.) Perhaps that's a topic for someone with more spare time than I to look into.