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I've never rage-quitted any fandom or left any fandom deliberately. They just go dormant, usually when supplanted by something else. At first I was in the Buffyverse only; then that coexisted with Firefly for awhile. Then Supernatural supplanted them both, followed by Gateverse and MCU. There were brief interjections of Die Hard, Dr. Horrible, various Star Treks, and Guardian throughout. And always the random fic one-off or Yuletide interest.
I never considered myself in HP fandom. By the time I was interested in it, no one on my friend's list was posting about it regularly or writing fic for it. I only wrote a handful of fics for it myself (although I still get regular kudos on them which is nice). However, HP and MCU and sometimes movie-canon LotR/Hobbit (which I was never part of and never wrote anything for) are the only fandoms in which I consistently go looking for fic on AO3 or elsewhere. I always read what my flist posts if I'm familiar with the canon; for example,
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Guardian is the first time in a long time that I've felt properly in a fandom with the not just posting fic but posting meta and episode reviews and doing lots and lots of talking with people in their spaces and mine about the show. Prior to that, the last time I really felt like I was in a fandom was Gateverse. I had a really good time writing a well-received (and finished! LOL) WIP in MCU when I was pregnant with Fiona (OMG, that was going on 7 years ago now *cries*), but I never had a lot of interaction with people outside of my flist about canon, and it never felt like I was really in the fandom for it.
I don't really feel like I'm in any fandom right now. Partly that's because I'm just so busy. I work full time; I've got kids; I exercise every day; I have a really early bedtime now because I'm old; I need to be spending free time working on academic projects; I'm trying to limit my screen time rather than increase it. I'm not jumping to get into Witcher fandom, for example, even though I suspect I'd enjoy it because I struggle to find time to watch TV much less put in the work to actually be part of the fandom. Part of me really hates that. I miss the halcyon days of grad school when I was truly part of fandom(s). But the other part of me is really satisfied with the things I'm doing that limit my internet time. So. IDK I feel like this answer wandered really far away from the question.