You know how celebrities these days sometimes have silly names for their fans? Like, Lady GaGa has her Little Monsters and Taylor Swift has her Swifties.
What would fans of Rick Steves call ourselves? SteveAdores? Rick Rollers?
Posted by
Colorado Mountains, USA
9280 posts
A Back Door Man (or Woman).
Apologies to Jim Morrison and The Doors, Willie Dixon, and Howlin' Wolf.
Posted by
Vancouver, Canada
155 posts
Getting “rickrolled” has a different meaning (Forbes link), should the fan group adopt “Never Gonna Give You Up” as theme. 😏
Posted by
Seattle
303 posts
I've seen Rikniks used.
Posted by
Colorado Mountains, USA
9280 posts
Years and years ago, 60 Minutes did a story on Rick Steves, and it mentioned his followers being “Rickniks.” I’d never heard that before, and it was quite a while ago, long after we’d been following his TV shows, guidebooks, and Graffiti Wall Helpline Forum. I’m not sure where the term came from that 60 Minutes (its original iteration) reported, but I haven’t seen or heard it used regularly by anyone.
Posted by
The Whipstick Forest
550 posts
Not sure I want to be known as a Back Door Man.
Posted by
Colorado Mountains, USA
9280 posts
Right, Lord Meek, but it’s potentially silly. Might depend on whatever connotations someone sees, besides Europe Through the Back Door. ;-)
Posted by
OP
Calgary
2218 posts
Getting “rickrolled” has a different meaning (Forbes link), should the
fan group adopt “Never Gonna Give You Up” as theme. 😏
HL fotoeins, oh, I'm aware. "Never Gonna Give You Up" was "our song" at DH's and my wedding. Little did we know how notorious it was to become.
I think the motto should be, "Keep Calm and Carry On."
Posted by
Southeastern US
3103 posts
"Never Gonna Give You Up" was "our song" at DH's and my wedding.
Well, this just makes you even cooler, BB 😁
Posted by
Sacramento, California U.S.A.
11757 posts
I’ve been using the term Rikniks for years.