Belieber

A Belieber is a fanatical devotee of the Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber. Use of this term predates 2010, and the existence of the community dates back to Bieber's early YouTube videos. The vast majority of Beliebers are pre-teen and teenage girls who have a sense of community, but the fandom also includes "Boy Beliebers", who are generally loved by their female counterparts due to their rarity.
Many Beliebers strictly defend and support Bieber and may resort to extreme methods to protect him against anything they deem as a threat, such as issuing death threats to women connected to Bieber and defacing after he failed to win a Grammy. On the other hand, Beliebers are also subject to put biased content on Justin Bieber-related pages on , which is why protection templates have been inserted on such pages.
In April 2013 Bieber made international headlines when he left a message in a guestbook at Anne Frank House that he hoped Anne would have been "a Belieber".
Etymology
Devoted Bieber fans are called Beliebers. A definition for belieber offered by New York Times "On Language" columnist Ben Zimmer is "a fanatical devotee of the pop singer Justin Bieber". Usage of the word predates its inclusion in dictionaries.
Love of Bieber by Beliebers has been named "Bieber Fever." Bieber Fever is described as an addiction to Justin Bieber that may start out as a crush on him before escalating over the course to a point where others view the addiction as harmful.
Similar words that mean similar things are: "Swifty", a devoted fan of Taylor Swift; "Directioner", a devoted fan of One Direction; and "Selenator", a devoted fan of Selena Gomez.
Demographics
Beliebers have a clear concept of themselves as a community, and by claiming one day he could fall in love with one of his fans.
The early Bieber fanbase developed on YouTube, and predated the release of Bieber's first album. Fans viewed his videos more than 2 billion times on YouTube, with Bieber becoming the first person to reach that number on the site.
Most of Bieber's fanbase is composed of young girls in their pre-teens or teens, although there are still many young men out there who support him. His fans have been described as patient and doting by the Toronto Star. Bieber fandom offers its female fans "a way not only to subliminate romantic and sexual yearnings but to carve out subversive versions of heterosexuality." Inside the fandom, Bieber is almost always viewed as heterosexual. Some of his fans have expressed an interest in having sex with him, and there are documented cases of fans asking the media to pass along messages to Bieber suggesting this. Fans will also express their love of Bieber by sending him messages on social networking sites like Twitter.
Bieber's popularity is a result of the Internet, with a large segment of the fan community actively continuing to use it to communicate with their fellow fans. One of the most coveted things for Beliebers online is a return follow from @justinbieber on Twitter. This has been described as the fandom's holy grail. Twitter changed their algorithm to remove persistently trending topics from the list, including Bieber. His Twitter followers responded by trying to circumvent the changes through the use of misspellings of his name.
Extremities of Belieber hysteria
The hysteria of Bieber fans has been compared to Beatlemania At an appearance in Australia, ten teenage fans fainted, and eight girls had to be hospitalized. and one sat on the hood of his car, an action repeated when Bieber has made other appearances. Thousands of fans showed up in Oslo, Norway, when Bieber visited the city during his Believe tour. At a concert, a fan hit him with a water bottle while he was performing. and often defend him. After Esperanza Spalding won a Grammy (as opposed to Bieber having won a Grammy), Beliebers attacked her physically and verbally, and in at least one case, wished for her death. Most of the anti-Spalding activity took place on Twitter and Facebook. inserting statements like "She now has the 2011 Grammy for being the Best New Artist! Even though no one has ever heard of her! Yay!" into the article about Spalding.
In media
Never Say Never, released in 2011, focused heavily on Bieber's fan base.
Cathleen Falsani is a self-proclaimed expert about Bieber, and has written a book about Bieber's Christian faith titled Belieber! Fame, Faith, and the Heart of Justin Bieber.
Mobilization
Bieber's management team makes an effort to mobilize and coordinate Bieber's fans into taking actions related to Bieber.
A contest was run on Twitter which included several celebrities that enabled fans to gain access to behind the scenes footage and purchase tickets to the Bieber movie before others.
Pre-teen Bieber fans sometimes coordinate on social media services to gather at a mall and "buy their entire stock of Bieber paraphernalia to donate to charity." One such buyout was organised by a 13 year old and 14 year old in Indiana. Bieber's Jewish manager Scooter Braun was threatened with death if Bieber performed in Israel.

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