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Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie play hockey rivals who fall in love on HBO's "Heated Rivalry".Sabrina Lantos/HBO Max"Heated Rivalry" is a breakout hit on HBO Max about a gay hockey romance with rabid fans.GIFs, video edits, and memes from the show and the stars are taking over social feeds.The huge popularity has led to something new and different in how this online fandom operates.There's something different about the "Heated Rivalry" online fandom from what I typically see — something strange brewing in the feeds, something I haven't seen in a long time, or maybe ever.It's easy for a topic to suddenly take over my Instagram Reels or TikTok feeds — those algorithms seem so sensitive that interacting with just a handful of posts on a topic can instantly send you down a rabbit hole. What made me realize that "Heated Rivalry" fandom was breaking through to some new level was that it managed to take over my X feed. X tends to be far more resistant to change on the "For You" feed, and seems to think I always want to see the most awful people saying the most infuriating things.And yet in the dead week between Christmas and New Year's, something finally broke through — "Heated Rivalry." Videos, edits from the show, memes, jokes, discussion, breathless fanning out.Finally, something dragged my X feed out of the turgid mud. That's when I understood the show had broken containment — normies and people who don't usually act thirsty online were suddenly enlisting in the fan army.'Heated Rivalry' fandom has broken out of normie containment"Heated Rivalry," a show about a secret romance (with a lot of explicit sex scenes) between professional hockey players, showed up with little promotion on HBO in November, and it's been a surprise hit. The romance is between two men, but the fans are, in large part, straight women (although there's also plenty of queer fans); I find this not too complicated to understand: It's sexy, it's romantic, there's yearning, hot guys, high production values, and pacing to make the six episodes easy to rip through. What I'm observing in the countless posts of video edits of the characters exchanging glances and kisses is that people are enjoying this as a safe excuse to be horny on main.The show's breakout stars, Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams, are charismatic and slightly under-media-trained in interviews. The fact that Storrie and Williams were relatively unknown actors before the show has actually helped fuel the fan excitement, my colleague Callie Ahlgrim observed."Heated Rivalry" fandom has grown so big and fast that it is breaking all the previous "rules" that were in place about how fandoms operate, as well as where they're posted and who sees the content— a sort of Cambrian explosion of a new fandom is emerging. The posts are not tucked away on Tumblr or fanfiction site Archive of Our Own, existing purely for the superfans who seek it out like horny Gollums; it's taking over the TikTok and Instagram feeds of normies who post under their real names.Fandoms have always been onlineTo understand better what's going on, I spoke with Yvonne Gonzales, a doctoral candidate in communications with a focus on fanfiction at USC Annenberg. "Something unique is happening where 'Heated Rivalry' has lit a bunch of different fires in a bunch of different places to build the fandom that we're seeing right now, Gonzales told me. "Which feels very networked in a way that is less connected than historically they have been."Fandom has always been a major part of the fabric of the internet. Kaitlyn Tiffany writes in the book "Everything I Need I Get From You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It" that "there is no such thing as fan internet, because fan internet is the internet."…