Liking to the Limit

We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.

― Jerry Garcia

My father liked licorice. He really liked licorice, and kept the trunk of his car filled with big cardboard boxes of the stuff. I guess he needed assurance, were the Soviet Union to attack or a pestilence fall upon us, he'd never go without.

Thanks to social media, we've all become too cavalier about "liking" things. Liking today is an indoor sport demanding no effort of any kind.

But true liking―liking to the limit―takes a village (no pun intended) of "like-minded" people. Jerry Garcia understood that: when it came to liking psychedelic bluegrass, Deadheads were indeed a breed apart.

And so are other die-hard fans―of actors, movies, musicians and more―as proven by the honorable names they've earned over the years.

Fans of musicians 

• Apple Scruffs, those hardest of hard-core Beatlemaniacs
• Beliebers, the fans of Justin Bieber
• Bobby Soxers, fans of Frank Sinatra
• Diamond Heads, fans of Neil Diamond
• Dylanologists, fans of Bob Dylan
• Elvisians, fans of the King
• Fanilows, fans of Barry Manilow
• Kellebrities, fans of Kelly Clarkson
• Metallicats, fans of Metallica
• Parrotheads, fans of Jimmy Buffett
• Phans, fans of Phish (also known as Phishheads)
• Sheerios, fans of Ed Sheeran
• Swifties, fans of Taylor Swift
• Vanatics, fans of Van Morrison
• Wayniacs, fans of Wayne Newton
• Wholigans, fans of The Who
• Zepheads, fans of Led Zeppelin

Fans of actors

• Cumberbitches, the fans of Benedict Cumberbatch
• Deaners, the fans of James Dean
• Fanistons, the fans of Jennifer Aniston
• Pine Nuts, the fans of Chris Pine
• Streepers, the fans of Meryl Streep

Fans of fictional characters

• Batmaniacs, the fans of Batman
• Fannibals, fans of Hannibal Lecter
• Potterheads, fans of Harry Potter
• Sherlockians, fans of the famed detective
• Xenites, fans of Xena, Warrior Princess

Fans of movies, TV shows & Broadway hits

• Alexander Familtons, the fans of the musical Hamilton
• Colbert Nation, fans of The Late Show
• Dunderheads, fans of The Office
• Finaddicts, fans of Jaws
• Phans, fans of The Phantom of the Opera
• Ringnuts, fans of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
• Thronies, fans of Game of Thrones
• Twihards, fans of Twilight
• Warsies, fans of Star Wars (please, not to be confused with Trekkies)
• Whovians, fans of Doctor Who
• Windies, fans of Gone with the Wind
• X-Philes, fans of The X-Files

Fans of fanatics

• Dittoheads, the fans of Rush Limbaugh (also know as Walking Dead)
• Trumpsters, the fans of 45―gentlefolk who just haven't quite yet found a fan club to replace the Bund
• QAnon, soon to be the last of the Trumpsters 

Fans of licorice

• Bonapartists, who, like Napoleon, are die-hard lovers of the stuff

Have I left out your favorite?