Definitely, but I feel fandom was in many ways embryonic in the '90s: participation was very much stratified and constricted by whether you could afford (often pay-by-the-minute) dial-up, assuming you even lived somewhere where it was available. (I had to drop out of fandom in the late 90s after moving to a country where the Internet wasn't really a thing yet.) Regional and economic barriers to fandom participation obviously still persist today, but they've definitely flattened now that smartphones, data, WiFi, and public networks have proliferated around the world.
So yeah, I think fandom will always evolve as people's means of engagement change, and as they evaluate what is or isn't working for them in any given space at a specific point in time.
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So yeah, I think fandom will always evolve as people's means of engagement change, and as they evaluate what is or isn't working for them in any given space at a specific point in time.