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September 10 marked the 30th anniversary of the very first TV show that I ever loved, The X-Files<\/em>. And since that fateful Friday night in 1993, \u201cThe X-Files\u201d became a both cultural phenomenon and cult classic. There was the Simpsons crossover and the shoutout in Barenaked Ladies\u2019 \u201cOne Week.\u201d It helped perfect the alternating mythology\/Monster-of-the-Week genre and shape Internet fandoms and culture. There were even college courses taught about it. \u201cLOST\u201d may have had the whole Man of Science vs. Man of Faith arc, but Scully and Mulder did it first and did it sexier. <\/p>\n

One of the biggest cultural impacts that the X-Files had actually comes from X-Philes (X-Files fans). They coined the terms \u201cship\u201d or \u201cshipping,\u201d which refers to wanting characters to get together romantically. In this case, X-Philes were divided into fans who wanted to see Mulder and Scully get together and fans who didn\u2019t. Remember the episode \u201cTriangle\u201d and how that gave each side what they wanted? The shipping debate was a whole thing.<\/p>\n

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What began as a cult favorite became so ubiquitous that the series \u2014 along with the iconic duo of Fox Mulder (Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Anderson) \u2014 became household names to fans and non-viewers alike. The lead pair\u2019s will-they-won\u2019t-they chemistry and the debate surrounding their relationship changed the language used by fandoms. With Mulder positioned as the believer and Scully as the skeptic, audiences were treated to compelling character dynamics \u2014 including questions about the nature of their relationship \u2014 in addition to conspiracy-laden and often-spooky storylines.<\/p>\n

Talk to an X-Phile today and you\u2019ll still get an array of opinions over Mulder and Scully\u2019s relationship, which began as a friendship with elements of \u201cUST\u201d \u2014 unresolved sexual tension, as fan sites called it \u2014 and culminated in romance, in a way only \u201cThe X-Files\u201d could portray one, after many seasons.
Fans were largely divided into two camps: Relationshippers \u2014 eventually shortened to \u201cshippers\u201d \u2014 who clung to every long look or feisty exchange between Mulder and Scully as evidence of the pair\u2019s undying love for one another. The anti-romance crowd, or \u201cnoromos,\u201d preferred focusing on alien conspiracies and monsters \u2014 or simply making fun of shippers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t stand that shipper stuff,\u201d said Don Presnell, a senior lecturer at University College at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. \u201cThat\u2019s not what the show was about.\u201d<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s no denying how much the online discourse revolved around the Mulder\/Scully pairing, whether it involved shippers and noromos good-naturedly (or in all seriousness) \u201cflaming\u201d each other in online forums, or Mulder\/Scully fanfiction, or fan videos set to schmaltzy love songs. \u201cThe X-Files\u201d was not the first or last show to get viewers invested in the relationship of fictional leads, but the term \u201cshipper\u201d moved beyond online Philes\u2019 inner circle and began to be used by fans of everything from \u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer\u201d to the \u201cHarry Potter\u201d series. It\u2019s now a commonly used word in fan culture and recognized by multiple dictionaries.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever I see people online using the word \u2018shippers\u2019 or \u2018shipping this couple or that couple,\u2019 I feel a sense of pride,\u201d said Eileen Pereira of Nevada. \u201cI know I\u2019m not the creator of these chat phrases and words, but I was part of the group that helped to initiate it into the online lexicon. I\u2019ll see it in print and think, \u2018Yup, we did that. We started that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

[From CNN]<\/p>\n

So, \u201cThe X-Files\u201d was my first fandom. My dad and I watched my very first episode on my birthday in 1998, and I was hooked. It was Season 5, so I spent hours watching FX marathons, renting from the library, and scouring early Internet fan websites and message boards learning all that I could about the show to catch up as much as possible before the movie came out and Season 6 started. I bought so many books, too, all of which I still have! I thought Duchovny, Anderson, and Nicholas Lea were all SO hot. I remember the shipper debates online and earnestly discussing them with a friend in school. She was a fierce non-shipper. I was a wishy-washy shipper that wanted them to hook up but wouldn’t have been devastated if they didn’t. Ah, memories of the heyday of early Internet fandoms. What a time. You know, I still want to believe.<\/p>\n

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Photos credit: Diyah Pera\/Twentieth Century Fox \/ Avalon, Kred, PacificCoastNews \/ Avalon<\/small><\/p>\n

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