Fall Out Boy

Fall Out Boy is an American rock band from Wilmette, Illinois, formed in 2001. The band consists of vocalist-rhythm guitarist Patrick Stump, lead guitarist Joe Trohman, bassist Pete Wentz, and drummer Andy Hurley. Fall Out Boy was in the Warped Tour lineup in 2004 and 2005.
Fall Out Boy is a core part of Bandom, a fandom that emerged around 2004-2006 and focuses primarily on bands signed to Fueled by Ramen/Decaydance as well as My Chemical Romance. The fandom and its scope is often humorously described as "Six Degrees of Pete Wentz".
The band announced it was going on hiatus in 2009, but reformed in 2013, to the surprised delight of its fans.
== Band Members ==
Though there were a few early line-up changes, the band is best known as having the following members.
=== Pete Wentz ===
Pete Wentz (Peter Lewis Kingston Wentz III) is the bassist, lyricist, and occasional backing-vocalist of Fall Out Boy. He is credited as creating all of Bandom and is the founder of the Decaydance record label, which began as a subset of FOB's Fueled by Ramen. He was married to Ashlee Simpson until 2011 but is most likely paired with FOB vocalist Patrick Stump in fic. He is also paired with Mikey Way of My Chemical Romance, with whom he became close when the bands toured together on Van's Warped Tour in the summer of 2005; this time period has since been dubbed by fans as "The Summer of Like."
=== Patrick Stump ===
Patrick Stump (born Patrick Stumph) is the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and primary song composer for the band. He produces records for a number of the other Bandom bands.
=== Joe Trohman ===
Joe Trohman is the lead guitarist and backing vocalist, and rarely gets paired with anyone, though he and his wife are occasionally background characters in Pete/Patrick fics.
=== Andy Hurley ===
Andy Hurley is the band's drummer and percussionist. Since Fall Out Boy's hiatus he has also drummed in the band The Damned Things.
== Shipping ==
* Pete/Patrick
* Though less frequent, Joe/Andy often appears in order to pair up the remaining band members.
* Pete/Mikey, of MCR
* Patrick/Gerard of MCR
* Heypetekey (Chris Gutierrez (Arma Angelus), Pete Wentz and Mikey Way (My Chemical Romance))
On the AO3 in 2018, the most popular FOB ship is Pete/Patrick, followed by Pete/Mikey, Andy/Joe, Patrick/Joe, Patrick/Brendon (of PATD), and Pete/Gabe (of Cobra Starship).See the relationship filter on the Fall Out Boy works page (accessed 28 March 2018)
== Common Fanwork Settings and Tropes ==
* Van days, fic set during the early days of the band's history, when they still toured in a vanSee, for example, trixiesfic's How to Be a Rock Star, by Patrick M. Stump, Aged Seventeen. 4 December 2007. (Accessed 1 February 2011.)
* Sixteen Candles 'verse, based on FOB's video "A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More Touch Me"siren_mage in bandom_primers. The One With the Vampires. 13 June 2007. (Accessed 1 February 2011.)
* Warped Tour 2005, often known as "The Summer of Like"
* Cultversequeenofhell. New Cultverse, and a Master List. 16 May 2007. (Accessed 1 February 2011.)queenofhell in cultverse. Background and Masterlist. 20 May 2007. (Accessed 1 February 2011.), created by queenofhell and based on popslash cultverse fics
==Fanwork Examples==
*a rare bandslash fanvid by fabella: Chasing Arizona (2008-03-29)
==Interactions With Fandom==
:See also: Bandom and the Fourth Wall
Over the years, the band reactions to fannish activity such as fan fiction (including RPS) and fanvids has been reported as neutral. However, in late 2014, they began a series of public explorations of their fanbase. In Dec 2014, the band released a video of them reading posts from the popular Fall Out Boy Confessions, a tumblr blog. It was billed as a "Christmas gift" to their fans in advance of the release of their new album in January 2015.
A few weeks later, they announced their plans to read fanfiction aloud on a radio show, much to the dismay of many of their fans:
Some fans expressed their disappointment with the band's choice:
Other fans disagreed with objections to the fanfic reading:
And as one fan somewhat cynically noted:
On Jan 5, 2015, they announced they were canceling the fanfic reading event. 
==Fannish Resources==
===Archives===
*Fall Out Boy fanworks at AO3
*Fall Out Boy podfics at Audiofic Archive
===LiveJournal Communities===
* falloutboylove - general FOB community (not RPF)
* midnight_party - FOB fanfiction community
* falloutboyicons - icons community
* fobficfinder - for finding lost fics
===Primers===
* FOB Primer by eleanor_lavish at damnyouwentz (2006)
* A Brief, Yet Thorough Introduction to Fall Out Boy RPS by lierdumoa (2007)
* The One With the Vampires, a Sixteen Candles 'verse primer by siren_mage at bandom_primers (2007)
=== Copypasta ===
* Amazing New Mexico Sunset
=== Zines ===
* Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Book So We Wouldn't Get Sued: A Fall Out Boy Charity Fanbook (2024) - charity zine for Gaza.
==Other Resources==
*wikipedia article
==References==
Category:Bandom
Category:Fall Out Boy