I don’t think there that big difference imo.
I mean everybody has a team that have more affinity... I’m Santos in Brasil and that is fine... others are Corinthians, São Paulo, Palmeiras, etc... all fanboys.
Some doesn’t like any football team but like football (it is very very little here in a Brasil) but it is fine too.
No. At some point on the fan scale you turn into a fanboy as rationality starts to degrade the more emotionally attached you become to the thing you are a fan of...
A fanboy will spin anything and everything in an non objective manner to try to "win" because they are very emotionally affected and attached to the thing they are fanboying over. A fan is capable of both wanting success of the thing they are a fan of while at the same time being objective in the support they give.
When an irrational fanboy loses, they are either secretly or outrightly emotionally devastated. They then go through the stages of grief... in a mixed up order as they are amazing bargainers.
When a normal rational fan loses, they are FAR less affected. While it's a downer, they can simply take the blow and go on living because it's not that big of a deal to them. Water off a ducks back.
And that's the problem, online it's hard to tell the difference right off the bat sometimes but the more you listen the more apparent their irrationality becomes. Other times it's immediately apparent.
Every time though, it's embarrassing...