[ SECRET POST #6246 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6246 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

What kind of fame do you get for smut writing anyway? Mostly I see a lot of logged out kudos and private bookmarks. Which is a compliment, but not "clout".

[(Anonymous)]

Have you never been in fandom?

[(Anonymous)]

Yes for many years! I am primarily a gen writer TBH.

[(Anonymous)]

There are people who can make a name for themselves by writing popular fic, and often the quickest way to get popular fic is to write smut. Usually this means people aren't just writing and posting to AO3, but they link to a tumblr/twitter/patreon/discord/etc where they gain followers and post other content. People in the past who have become 'fandom famous' have gotten jobs, gifts, money, and sometimes people just get a thrill from being popular.

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly? Good for them.

[(Anonymous)]

I would say good for them but it seems only assholes seem to profit out of fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

When I see that happen it's people writing novel-length shipfic in popular pairings (which may or may not contain smut.)

When I hear people talking about "flooding the smut tags" I think of short PWP, which is a very different thing. I have never heard of anyone ending up with a job because of writing short PWP fanfic.

Unless they mean, like, people reposting extremely short smut promptfics from other social media, which they may be getting money for these days, and which I agree is usually not very good and very annoying and often blatantly just for popularity. But they usually aren't doing the AO3 part for clout, the clout comes from the place they originally requested the prompts. They are just posting them on AO3 to archive them because the other social media is bad at that. Which is ... what AO3 is for. Even the bad porn. (Especially the bad porn.)

[(Anonymous)]

The most "clout" I see is for long plotty fics with good smut, not just smut.

[(Anonymous)]

In some places, you can make a name for yourself if you write smut. I've been in a couple fandoms now where the kudos are from logged in users (and so are the comments), and the bookmarks are not private. People who write it well get a lot of engagement and a lot of prompts.

[(Anonymous)]

I’ve only ever been in fandoms like this going right back to the angelfire and email rings days. Lots of us just really want our ships to bone and never tire of coming up with new ways to make it happen.