[ SECRET POST #6885 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6885 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

You are hilariously wrong on all counts. It was never about "keeping the lights on" for FFN, it was about wanting to expand their user base and not lose ad revenue. And the driving motivation behind expanding their user base was also ad revenue.

AO3 does not have ad revenue. Furthermore, it is legally registered as a non-profit organization. No one that AO3 staffs is paid in the first place, so even the temptation to change policy and allow ads isn't there, because they'd also have to convince the organization as a whole to start paying them before they would see any personal financial benefit from that hypothetical ad revenue. Short of unprecedented government intervention, there is nothing that can force AO3 to remove swaths of its content, and even in the event that the US government tried to enforce censorship of AO3's library, AO3 would most likely choose to relocate its base of operations somewhere outside the US's jurisdiction.

AO3 is not invulnerable. Nothing lasts forever and nothing stays the same forever. Nothing is impervious to erosion or corruption. But AO3 is built in a way that deliberately safeguards against financially-motivated enshitification, which sets it entirely apart from sites like FFN and Wattpad. It's an entirely different animal that just happens to look like the other two at a glance.