Are there any community-led NFT projects that focus on building a community around a creator or fandom?

Yes — there are quite a few NFT projects that are explicitly about community, fandom, and creator-led culture, rather than just speculation. A few well-known examples:

Creator / artist-centered communities

• Gary Vee’s VeeFriends — built around Gary Vaynerchuk’s personal brand and a membership-style community with events, access, and perks.
• Cozomo de’ Medici / related collector communities — more collector-driven than creator-driven, but heavily community-oriented around art and culture.
• Pak’s projects — often less “fandom” in a conventional sense, but they’ve generated strong communities around the artist’s work.

Fandom / IP-centered projects

• Doodles — one of the best-known examples of an NFT project that became a fandom/community brand, with a recognizable style, events, and ongoing community involvement.
• Pudgy Penguins — community-first brand with strong fandom energy, especially around collectibles, toys, and social presence.
• Cool Cats — another community-driven NFT brand that built a loyal holder base and expanded into broader media/brand activity.
• Moonbirds — initially more community and membership oriented, with holder engagement and ecosystem-building.

Music / entertainment / creator fandom

• Royal — focused on music and creator ownership, letting fans support artists and participate in the economics.
• Catalog — centered on music NFT ownership and artist-fan relationships.
• Zora-based creator drops — many artists use Zora to build fan communities around limited drops and creator relationships.

More explicitly membership/community platforms

• Nouns DAO — not a creator fandom project in the usual sense, but a highly community-led NFT/DAO model with collective ownership and brand building.
• Friends With Benefits (FWB) — community token/NFT adjacent, but a strong example of a creator/culture community with membership utility.

If you want, I can also give you:

1. a shortlist of the most successful projects in this category,
2. projects focused specifically on music fandom, YouTube/Twitch creators, or artists, or
3. a list of up-and-coming community-led NFT projects.