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Club Chalamet is recalibrating her fandom.
Simone Cromer, the 59-year-old stan who runs the viral Timothee Chalamet fan account Club Chalamet, announced on Instagram that she will be taking a step back from running the popular account. "Things have changed in this fandom in such a significant way that we also have to adjust to the changes and focus on other interests that simply bring us joy," she wrote.
Per Cromer, she will still post updates about Chalamet's forthcoming releases, including the highly anticipated Dune 3, but she will no longer focus on promoting the actor as passionately as she has for the last few years. "Once I don't fully believe in it anymore, I have to recenter my focus on things I believe in and that make me happy," she wrote. She cited an unspecified event that happened a year ago that sparked her change in feelings for the project. "So much has changed from what we all initially signed up for that it doesn't resemble what lured us here in the first place," she added.
Simone Cromer aka Club Chalamet photographed for the Wall Street Journal. pic.twitter.com/Jrzf06JhA0
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Cromer's account began garnering viral attention in 2023 when she hosted a Twitter Spaces discussing then-recently released photos of Chalamet and then-rumored girlfriend Kylie Jenner. She famously questioned whether they were truly together since she had "never seen them at Olive Garden." Cromer continued to grow her niche internet micro-celebrity via verbose writings on all things Chalamet on Instagram, X, and Substack.
Her nearly full-time passion for the young actor provoked intrigue and laughing reactions from internet users who were surprised to see a professional woman in her 50s so vehemently stan the rising actor. Her penchant for flowery language, general seriousness, and fluency with clap backs made her a continual character featured in the collective feed. She even notched a full profile in Wall Street Journal Magazine.
Cromer has been cooling on Chalamet in the past year, in part due to his continued relationship with Jenner, and seemingly because of his increasingly boastful, potentially obnoxious behavior. Chalamet famously generated controversy recently when he claimed that "no one cares" about Ballet or Opera. Cromer soon after wrote that she "[felt] seen" by a post on X that read: "defending a person & then experiencing why nobody likes them is very humbling."
Now with Cromer seemingly focused on other pop cultural endeavors (like celebrating Heated Rivalry star Connor Storrie), she's marking a new era in her life as a fan. But for internet onlookers and pop culture historians, it must be acknowledged that the era of Club Chalamet was undoubtably a strange and fascinating one. It marked the confluence of irony and fan passions, and brought a novel kind of person to the cultural fore, one, who, you have to say, really did have a way with words.
Read Cromer's full statement on Instagram below.