[ SECRET POST #7024 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7024 ⌋

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


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

What is the preexisting site audience in this case, though? There's nothing unifying the users of AO3 other than that they're all people who enjoy fanfiction. They come from countless different fandoms, and different niches within those fandoms, each with their own sets of norms and preferred tropes, and generally aren't reading works outside of those fandoms and niches that they enjoy. The "site audience" is going to vary wildly depending on which corner you travel to.

If the argument is that an individual fandom is going to have a preexisting audience, well...that problem still happened back in the day! Even if you were hosting your own site, there was still an impulse to write what you already knew people wanted, because that's how you'd get people to visit the site. And in the case of fandom communities developing their own sites, well, each of those communities developed its own preexisting audience, which would influence the writing of the people there. It's not something that can really be avoided.

[(Anonymous)]

This. One of my fandoms is really, really into fixit fic. Another loves its angst and whump. Yet another one is all about various and sundry AUs. If I wrote a fixit fic for fandom 1, I would be drowning in comments, but if I wrote it for fandom 2, it would probably go largely ignored just because the two fandoms like different things.