AO3 is not social media and we gotta stop treating fandom like a popularity contest. Kudos are nice, but they aren't gonna keep you warm at night. Hits are nice, but they don't pay my bills. Some of y'all need to relax and quit focusing so much on "stats." It's not a competition.
thereโre still people who think ao3 is a social media and when you tell them itโs an archive, they still try to argue with you. my brother in christ, it has no algorithm, no dm, it only lets you post fanfic & other transformative fanwork, itโs literally called ARCHIVE of our own
Iโm surprised that no one has written a cultural essay about how the response to AO3โs collapse reflects a business mindset driving engagement in the arts (i.e. regular people talking about box office receipts as if theyโre shareholders) and rampant individualism over community.
โI used AO3 once and everything was about rape and incest๐คฎโ
If thatโs all you found across nearly 20 million fics you were actively looking for it. Stfu and stop trying to make yourself feel better by publicly detesting it.
sabe o que รฉ mais engraรงado? o ao3 foi literalmente o responsรกvel em dar seguranรงa jurรญdica para os escritores de fanfic! lรก no inicio dos nos 2000 a anne rice vivia processando quem fazia fanfic de iwtv e a fanfiction..net imediatamente deletava e haviam categorias de fandoms q eram banidas para evitar essa confusรฃo com autores chatos. existe literalmente todo um braรงo jurรญdico pra manter A SUA FANFIC NO AR que trabalha sem fins lucrativos e vive de doaรงรตes para manutenรงรฃo. quer ter domรญnio sobre sua obra de personagens que sequer te pertencem? crie seu prรณprio repositรณrio e responda seus b.o s
im sorry for being so annoying about ao3 criticism but man it is one of the last remaining websites with ZERO !!! ads online ๐ญ you dont need an app, you dont need a subscription its entirely free and its !!! ad-less !!!
I'm doing fine without Ao3, I'm just missing my nightly fic. And my morning fic. And my lunch break fic. And my between classes fic. And my procrastination fic
How do I explain to people that the ao3 discourse becoming mainstream may lead to us being recognized as an untapped market resource and the only holy bastion that's keeping this commensalism is AO3 accepting only donations and not placing monetary value on it
can i say ao3 is actually such an insanely made website like its free, nonprofit, no ads, runs entirely on volunteer work and yeah i get that there was a security incident but they also stated that the only info in the data base was like ur email and hashed password plus like --
"The most unemployed person you know is upset about AO3."
Babe, one of the most brilliant writers in my fandom is a surgeon. Go outside and touch grass.
Tumblr, FanFictionNet, Wattpad, Pixiv. Tiempo atrรกs, las comunidades y plataformas de fandoms vivian en armonรญa, pero todo cambiรณ cuando Wattpad se monetizรณ.Solo #ao3, maestro de todos los fandoms, podรญa ser un hogar; pero cuando el mundo mรกs lo necesitaba, cayรณ en mantenimiento