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If you saw a fanfic on AO3 where the author note consists of the author whining about how no one likes them and that drama follows them wherever they go, would you skip anything they write or would you just ignore it and read the story anyway?

(I would love to post the example I saw recently, but the author might post here so I won't. All I can say is that it's insane)

It depends a LOT on the fic. If it's for a fandom/pairing that gets very little content, or a really niche AU or kink that I've been looking for, then I can skip over an author's note and I doubt I'd remember a whiny author's note enough to like... remember who wrote it in a larger fandom. But if it's something where like... I can read a thousand other fics, then I might just nope out and do so.

I would only read it so I could laugh at the inevitable bad writing the fic would contain.

So, I'm not going to say that it would for sure keep me from reading what they wrote, but it would make me much more inclined to skip it. That's a huge turn off and very off putting. If they wrote something I was really interested in, I would probably go ahead and give it a try, but I would have much less patience with it, and I would be a lot more likely to get annoyed and stop reading it.

You kids never would've survived early 2000s writing where authors interacted with characters on both sides of the fic.

I think that’s a really different thing. At worst, it’s weird in a “cringe” way. But it’s not self-pitying or trying to guilt trip the reader.

Surviving without reading those fics was pretty easy to do lol

Pretty much a surefire way of telling the fic is going to sound like it was written by a 15 year old, whether the author actually was 15 or not

Lol, so true. I actually don't care if a person is genuinely 15 or if they're 55 with the mental/emotional age of 15, I'm probably not going to be interested if they act that way.

2000s? Try all the way back to Usenet fics in the 90s.

I kinda miss those goofy little skits, to be honest. I kinda wish they'd come back.

I always find that such a turnoff . I prefer to use my authors notes to babble about creative choices, update people on small things that might effect my posting schedule (there is no schedule only ADHD) and occasionally apologize for going quiet for a year.

I’d skip it. I have enough drama in my life with kids, an elderly parent, health problems, budget difficulties, and life in general. I don’t need somebody else’s drama in my life. Especially since it sounds like it’s a them problem and they don’t recognize that.

Depends? I skip authors notes already anyway, so there's a good chance I never read the note. But if it was so long and whiny that I couldn't help but notice I'd def be bracing for badfic

I would ignore it if I was otherwise interested in the fic, but it would make me think less of the author as a person.

I had a fandom friend who would make notes like this. And also drama did follow them everywhere. I learned why later on my own. It's an ex fandom friend for a reason.
But she is a really good writer. One of the best fandom writers I've met.

So yeah, I would give it a chance

If the tags are interesting or I'm already invested in the story then I'd probably read it anyways.

If it's on AO3, the drama is not interfering with the fic itself or comments section, the fic is really good, and/or the ship/trope/fandom is rare to the point there aren't a lot of fics...I can read the fic without thinking much about the author's notes.

If I can relatively scroll past and ignore the author's whiny notes, it wouldn't interfere with my desires to keep reading.

On AO3, I can't recall having a situation where I back buttoned/DNF a fic because their author's notes and ramblings about fandom drama annoyed me.

There are exceptions where the fandom drama seems spicy so I check it out as a detour before/after finishing reading the fic. In those situations, I don't mind at all!

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