[ SECRET POST #2936 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2936 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I've been writing fic since 1997 and it's all on AO3. My old porn very rarely gets a hit, but people keep reading the gen fics forever. None of them were super popular when I posted them, but all top ten fics (by hits or kudos) are gen. Fifteen of the top twenty are gen, and of the other four, only one is explicit. Porn is trendy, but gen sticks around.

[(Anonymous)]

Trendy?

Uh, no. If you were writing since 1997 then you ought to remember the backlash and drama when FFnet stopped hosting NC-17 fics. And the huge shrinking of the archive at the time, when they deleted a huge proportion of their fics.

The first things I saw in 1999 when I discovered fanfic was porn.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT There were plenty of other archives at the time - I've rarely put anything on that site except for my few anime fandoms. Porn being trendy is what made FF.net shut it down - it was affecting their advertising.

[(Anonymous)]

SA We may be using a different definition of "trendy". I mean that porn fics tend to be read a lot at the time they're published but fewer of them become fandom classics or are re-read after that particular moment is past.

[(Anonymous)]

I think the word you're looking for is "popular."

Trendy implies a current fad or interest that has no longevity.

I'd also suggest that what becomes a "fandom classic" is very much dependent on the fandom.