[ SECRET POST #2483 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2483 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Now I'm wondering if there could be a way to predict which fandoms will succeed, and which will die out.

I wonder if you could do a test to find out which factors correlate highly with a fandom living on past the completion of the fanwork...

[(Anonymous)]

1) Either a mostly-male cast, or a cast with surprising and interesting characters (or both, whatever, but you really only need one)

2) Possibility of an extended or greater universe

Anything else?

[brooms]

1.(white) male leads with some sort of bond (*)
2.sci-fi/fantasy setting
3.target demo

"mature" cable shows like the wire or house of cards or the sopranos or the americans have "surprising and interesting characters", but they're not the sort to get fanficcy fanbases. there are exceptions, like breaking bad which i was surprised to learn has a kink meme. but not even BB has that much fic going for it. at least not compared to the likes of, say, suits or hawaii five o.

comedies don't usually get fanficcy fandoms either.

(*) sandwich prominent women in there and it tends to not be as effective, even if you have the other items down. see being human or haven or misfits.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Eh, I was thinking Buffy for the "surprising and interesting characters" part. Now that you mention it, though, that may be the exception or an outdated rule.

Hmm. Number 3 might be better said as "more than one demo." MLP is one example of that at least, but I'm not sure it's a hard and fast rule.

This is harder that I thought.

[brooms]

MLP actually fits what i meant with target demo? the mature paragraph was more or less an elaboration of my thoughts.

anything aimed at the 25 and under crowd (eta: or "all ages/pg-13"), regardless of gender, is more likely to acquire a fanficcy fanbase than stuff aimed at the 25-49, cable companies' most beloved demo.

a merlin and a ouat will always trump a game of thrones when it comes to fanfic output even though they're all technically in the same genre.

hannibal is interesting because it was courting the 25-49, but hit the fanficcy crowd anyway because it played a heavy "(white) male leads with an ~intense~ bond" hand.