In her Fans to the Front column, Brittany Spanos dives into what's happening in fan culture on the Internet.
Tragedy often has a bittersweet way of connecting communities who are bound by the shared experience, but members of one of the groups impacted by this week's Manchester bombing already saw each other as a family, spread far and wide across the
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Fans to the Front: How Ariana Grande’s Online Family Is Coping After Manchester