We’re all guilty of falling into a fandom rabbit hole. After all, who among us hasn’t been scrolling through a juicy pop culture thread on the FauxMoi subreddit only to see it’s 3am? But the line between that and obsession is, actually, quite a thick one. Yet it’s one that Club Chalamet has sprinted past.
According to the person behind the stan account, Simone Cromer, Club Chalamet was first started in 2018 to boost the actor’s Oscar chances. Thanks to its relentless posting and some snarky (and generally creepy) remarks about Chalamet’s relationship with Kylie Jenner, the account has been splashed all over the internet since around 2023, including in a strange WSJ profile of Cromer that’s indicative of the paper’s journalistic quality since the Jeff Bezos takeover.
