When did the word "Buffyverse" originate?

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"Xena?!?!? " I shrieked. "No! Faith has got freaking nothing in common with Xena!"
"I don't get why not. Same kinda character. Same kinda show." responded my netbuddy.
"Buffy The Vampire Slayer is not like Xena!!! Or Charmed!!! Or any of those shows!"
"Why not? What's so special about Buffy?"

So here I am. A week of writing at ungodly hours, surfing the net for quotes and examples, and so far, about eight pages of stuff. I haven't yet moved on to pre-Christian Northern European religion and Celtic mythological sagas but I intend to.

Anyway.

Help me finish this thing sometime before Christmas. My question is - when did the term "Buffyverse" (Or any of it's ME-verse, Jossverse, Whedonverse variants) first come into usage? Understandably, it's hard to trace it's origins. It almost definitely came from a message board, I just wanna know when... I'd be so grateful in fact, that I'm offering a bounty of petz points for the earliest recorded use...
 
As the Buffy fans have been described as the most loyal and smartest fans in the world they came up with a word (Like many other shows do) that takes in the entire world of Buffy. I think i came from the Official Buffy Mag or one of the writing team. Very simple really Buffy+Universe= Buffverse.
An ingenious little word that stops us from having to type "In the place where Buffy is" etc..

Bit pointless and doesnt answer your question at all but, hey It's a little confidence booster
 
I believe I was the one who came up with 'Buffyverse'

Yes...it was me...bow down on your knees and worship me...

Do it...now...

Seriously? I have no idea...
 
No idea... Never heard of the term until I joined this site.

:einstein: <-- Hey! It's smarty Einstien!
 
Funnily enough, the first time I remember seeing "---verse" applied to a TV show was probably the Xenaverse but the concept of alternate universes has been around for donkey's years starting off, I guess, with serious scientific hypothesis and finding its way into sci-fi/fantasy. Personally, I can recall its use in Michael Moorcock's books from the late 60s onwards and also in DC Comics alternate universes (Earth 1, Earth 2 etc) amongst others.

But, back on topic, it only seems to have been in the last couple of years that it has been used to describe the universe that contains a creator's TV show (or related shows - Buffy/Angel, Xena/Hercules) and other spin-offs.Oddly enough though, I don't ever recall the Star Trek universe being described as the "Trekverse" - although I'm sure it has🙂
 
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