It ain’t embarrassing, don’t worry! It’s basically used to refer to ppl who are very intense fans of something or someone. It technically means a combination of “stalker” and “fan”, but I’ve mostly seen it used with the intense fans without any stalking involved.
no offense but if your writing is so dense and pretentious and superfluously flowery and confusing in its wording that more effort is spent in literally understanding what you’re trying to say than analyzing what you mean, it’s bad writing. half of academia is just bad writing
me: *watches criminal minds for 9 hours*
anything: *makes a noise*
me: I’m looking for a white male between the ages of 25-45 probably a loner probably most definitely hates women probably drives a red late model dodge truck probably lives alone his moms name is Helen and his favorite color skittles are the red ones