[ SECRET POST #3503 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3503 ⌋

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Comments

I don't think it's all that small.

[(Anonymous)]

By these numbers, it's about half (and that half has over half a million fics). It is less, but I don't think I'd call it small.

Re: I don't think it's all that small.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Also, as others have pointed out, AO3 isn't the only place to find fanfic online; it's just the easiest place to pull stats from because of the tagging system. The proportion of m/m to f/m fics may well be the complete opposite elsewhere (e.g. fanfiction.net, Tumblr, etc.), but it's pretty much impossible to get concrete numbers for those sites.

Re: I don't think it's all that small.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, in my experience, het is way more popular than slash anywhere other than AO3 and certain slash-centric parts of tumblr. Go on reddit or any mainstream forum, and everyone's a het shipper there. Go to any mainstream comics forum or site, and you can talk about non-canon het ships all the time. Mention an m/m ship, and it's a whole lot of "Fucking fangirls, why do they have to ruin the characters by making them gay!!"

I think things get skewed on AO3 because it was created by slash fans, heavily for slash fans, and advertised in slash-centric parts of fandom as a place where . So slash fans were the early adopters and the stats there skew towards slash.