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WingsOfGood posted...

Term was not used in 2001.

It came from one of these streamers using it for everyone

https://theoutline.com/post/2425/when-stan-became-a-verb

Though Eminem gave the world the image of Stan, Nas showed the world how to put "stan" to work, having used it in his classic 2001 diss track Ether": "You a fan, a phony, a fake, a pussy, a Stan." His is the first recorded usage of "stan" as a label (and a pejorative one) for an obsessive fan rather than the name of the fan himself. From there "stan" slowly took off, and while the noun's pejorative meaning remains, the murderous intent it was originally associated with has nearly disappeared. Stans all over the world label themselves as such to express just how dedicated they are to a particular artist and their fandom.

Literally the first usage (outside of the actual song) was in 2001. That article goes on to say that it was added to the urbandictionary in 2008, well before stream culture took off. In fact, it predates Twitch by three years.