Likewise.

Also, oddly enough, on my flist just now, the post just above yours is by huzzlewhat, in which she says basically the same thing: BNFs get to be BNFs by writing good stories and running ficathons and modding communities and making recs and all that stuff. So far as I can tell, that status is never entirely unearned, and is not, in fact, a bad thing. It means they've done something valuable to the fandom.