"animatophile" meaning in English

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          "text": "While Nickelodean was committed to children's programming, Kricfalusi and his co-workers increasingly created programming that catered to his cult following among animatophiles […]",
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          "ref": "2007, Sarah Banet-Weiser, Kids Rule!: Nickelodeon and Consumer Citizenship, page 206:",
          "text": "The creative and economic moment of the early twenty-first century, when both SpongeBob and The Fairly OddParents are produced, is a moment in which the \"wacky style\" of humor and animation of these programs has been mainstreamed and no longer attracts a kind of subcultural, or even an animatophile, following.",
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