Editing Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold (section)

===Fandom===
Harris and Klebold have also spawned a [[fandom]] who call themselves "Columbiners", mostly apparent on blogging site [[Tumblr]]. While some just have a scholarly interest in the pair or the event, the vast majority of these individuals, mostly young women, express a sympathetic, or sometimes even sexual interest, in Harris and Klebold.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/speaking-to-columbiners-about-depression-suicide-and-the-halifax-shooting-plot-232/|title=Inside the World of Columbine-Obsessed Tumblr Bloggers|website=Vice.com|date=February 24, 2015 |access-date=June 23, 2019|archive-date=June 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190623232157/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kwpd4n/speaking-to-columbiners-about-depression-suicide-and-the-halifax-shooting-plot-232|url-status=live}}</ref> There has been [[Homoeroticism|homoerotic]] art drawn of the two, fan fiction created on the pair's future together had they not gone through with the shooting and costumes created on the outfits Harris and Klebold sported the day of the shootings.<ref name="ati">{{cite web|url=https://allthatsinteresting.com/columbiners-sol-pais|title=Enter The World Of Online Fans Who Are Infatuated With The Columbine Shooters|date=April 19, 2019|website=All That's Interesting|access-date=June 23, 2019|archive-date=June 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190623232156/https://allthatsinteresting.com/columbiners-sol-pais|url-status=live}}</ref>

"I relate to their feelings of hopelessness, being angry and not being able to change it, and wanting to be accepted and appreciated", an 18-year-old Tumblr user wrote on Harris and Klebold. "No one noticed they were struggling, and no one took their suffering seriously", added another user. A news site called "All That's Interesting" said on the fandom, "Many of these Columbiners have no positive feelings about the massacre, but are instead focused on the troubled inner lives of its perpetrators because they see themselves in them."<ref name="ati" /> The fandom has received criticism for heroizing Harris and Klebold and allegedly inspiring shooting plots such as the [[Halifax mass shooting plot]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/20/cult-of-columbine-how-the-high-school-shooting-motivated-a-murder-plot|title=The cult of Columbine: how an obsession with school shooters led to a murder plot|first=Rachel|last=Monroe |author-link=Rachel Monroe |newspaper=The Guardian |date=August 20, 2019|via=www.theguardian.com|access-date=June 11, 2020|archive-date=March 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200321131237/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/20/cult-of-columbine-how-the-high-school-shooting-motivated-a-murder-plot|url-status=live}}</ref>