1914, Harry Church Chappell, Katharyn Joella Allen Chappell, History of Buchanan County, Iowa, and Its People, volume 1, Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., page 156:
Along in 1863 the feeling of bitterness and animosity between the administration sympathizers and supporters and the antis or Copperheads, as they were called, was at white heat, even in Buchanan County—there seem to have been many southern sympathizers, anti-Lincoln, anti-war, anti-administration, and more extreme in degree, anti-abolitionists.
Good roads supporters and the antis each scored in the house of representatives last week when Treadwell Twichell's bill, which would permit people of the State to vote on a $1,000,000 highway bond issue, was defeated, and his bill, which would permit counties to increase their debt limits 3 per cent, on a vote of two-thirds of the people of the county, such additional bonding capacity to be taken advantage of in promoting good roads, was recommended out of the committee of the whole house for passage.
1920 July, Gilbert D. B. Hasbrouck, “Governor George Clinton”, in The Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association, volume 1, number 4, →ISSN, page 157:
No matter how persuasively Hamilton argued and ratiocinated there were but 19 Federalists in the convention against 41 antis and they were Clinton's loyal supporters.
Noun: "(fandom slang, often derogatory) a fan who objects to a particular creator, franchise, fandom, character, ship, etc., especially on moral or sociopolitical grounds"[edit]
2017, Nanna Dam Petersen & Line Boye Danielsen, "'Lexa was me': A Case study of Clexa fandom grieving", paper submitted to Aalborg University, page 28:
So-called “antis” can also in other contexts create a toxic discourse.
2018, Sarah Leiser, "Throne of Fans: Examining the Roles of Feminism, Platform, and Community in an Online Fandom", thesis submitted to the University of Denver, page 94:
While I did not directly analyze how the antis define feminism, it appears that they believe Sarah J Maas as an author is a white feminist and therefore unable to write anything feminist.
2019, Emily E. Roach, "Polyjuice and Potterheads: The Changing Face of Fandom from LiveJournal to Tumblr", in Fan Phenomena: Harry Potter (eds. Valerie Estelle Frankel), unnumbered page:
Not only does the space encourage heightened levels of emotional engagement and thoughtless, toxic attacks, but the lack of control that individual bloggers have over their own posts can result in something they have creature being reblogged by 'antis' who are keen to highlight the 'problematic' aspects of the content they have created and shame the OP into silence.
2019, Emily E. Roach, "Supernatural: Wincest and Dean Winchester's Bisexual Panic", in "From Canon to Politics: Queerbaiting and The CW's Supergirl", in Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans Through Homoerotic Possibilities (ed. Joseph Brennan), page 89:
Other fans or viewers are thus not coded as fans but instead positioned as either homophobic, angry "antis" (even if they ship Johnlock or other queer ships) or as the outsider "casuals" who aren't dedicated or smart or invested enough to properly interpret Sherlock.
2019, anonymous, quoted in Jen Cardenas, "To Affinity and Beyond: A Qualitative Exploration of Fandom Learning, Empathy, and Reactionary Fandom Culture", thesis submitted to Texas State University, page 32:
Lately, I have noticed an unfortunate trend in fandom where fans of a certain work/character/pairing/etc. will attack those with differing opinions as being “bad people”. This… has destroyed a bit of what the fandom culture represented to me in the first place. Rather than being an open, understanding, free environment, it has become toxic and bitter, spawning rivalries and “antis” and hatred.
2019, Lauren Rouse, "The fan fiction reading guide: the use of multimedia and comments as close reading tools", thesis submitted to DePaul University, page 96:
However, the crimes of the character are not the only reason why many fans dislike Reylo: many antis argue that the ship is steeped in racism as well as sexism and misogyny. This is partly due to the erasure of the Finn/Rey ship in Star Wars fandom. In some Reylo fiction, Finn is portrayed at the jealous ex-boyfriend or the angry, over-protective best friend.
2020, A Tumblr Book: Platforms and Cultures (eds. Alexander Cho, Allison McCracken, Indira N. Hoch, & Louisa Stein), page 170:
The second major difference–and it's related– is the way that people in the subfandoms and communities on Tumblr to and about actual people related to their fandoms in a way that is dehumanizing (either by labelling critics of a fandom as enemies or "antis" or by placing people they like on shaky pedestals where the threat of being knocked off is ever-present).
2020, Arushi Raj, Understand K-pop: Deconstructing the Obsession and Toxicity in K-pop Stan Culture, 85:
But even the mildest of constructive criticisms are labeled as hate and their speaker as antis or haters.
2021, Renee Ann Drouin, "'Fans Are Going To See It Any Way They Want':" The Rhetorics of The Voltron: Legendary Defender Fandom", dissertation submitted to Bowling Green State University, page 23:
Claims of incest and pedophilia were primarily used to discourage pairing Keith, who they felt Lance deserved, into a romantic relationship with Keith’s friend, Shiro, a few years older and once claimed to be ‘like a brother’ to Keith. Resultingly, antis accused other fans of being pro-pedophilia and incest if they did not ship Lance and Keith together.
2021, Diane Floegel, "Investigating Structural Articulations of Power in Information Creation: A Constructivist Grounded Theory of Queer-Created Fanfiction", thesis submitted to Rutgers University, page 172:
However, while participants agree that antis and the fandom police serve to target creators within internet fandom, they do not agree on what the term “anti” actually refers to.
2021, anonymous, quoted in Victor Larsen, "'It Makes Me, A Minor, Uncomfortable': Media and Morality In Anti-Shippers' Policing of Online Fandom", thesis submitted to Ghent University, page 32:
The consensus was that antis have had a negative effect on fandom.
2021, anonymous, quoted in Allegra Rosenberg, "'Writing To Cope': Anti-Shipping Rhetoric in Media Fandom", paper presented at the Electronic Literature Organization 2021: Platform (Post?) Pandemic conference, page 9:
I would really like to be able to peacefully browse Hannibal content on tumblr/twitter without running into deranged antis calling for violence against Bryan Fuller.
2021, Rebecca Williams, A Fan Studies Primer: Method, Research, Ethics, page 72:
The VLD fandom especially has cultivated a definition of antis as ones against a moral or societal ill (e.g., pedophilia, incest).
2022, Angela Marie Fazekas, "Creative Becomings: Explicit Fanfiction, Reinventing Adolescence, and Queer Relationality", thesis submitted to the University of Toronto, page 106:
Put differently, antis argue that stories that involve underage characters in sexually explicit scenarios are akin to pedophilia and that Ao3 should be held liable for distributing child pornography for hosting them. Antis often hold the stance that teenage readers and writers of fanfiction are highly susceptible and can be heavily influenced by the fictional content they consume.
2022, Agnieszka Urbańczyk, "Finding a Dead Dove in the Refrigerator: The Anti-Shippers' Call for Exclusion of Sensitive Content as a Means of Establishing Position in the Field of Fan Production", Przegląd Kulturoznawczy, Volume 53, Number 3, page 405:
Until the emergence of the anti movement, media fandom had been painted by academics as a safe space for marginalized groups to explore any issue without judgement. It is not only the harassment that does not fit this image: the antis' demands are rarely welcome by scholars familiar with the history of fandom's struggles against censorship.