The drama presents fans who are lawyers, creatives, and professionals with full lives, responsibilities, and routines, and crucially it does not frame their devotion as something they should eventually abandon.

NJWNS Never Die means more than a meme. It is an economic declaration as much as an emotional one. When Danielle left, the fandom did not shrink. It reorganised.

Live music is often described as increasingly inaccessible because of ticket prices, but that explanation overlooks a quieter shift that has transformed the experience from the inside out, where the cost of participation extends well beyond entry into the venue