People out here like “why do fanfiction writers defend ao3, they making money off you all, omg how stupid are you lmao!!!!!!!”
I CANNOT make money OFF OF FANFICTION. YOU DUMB FUCKS. The most I can ask is FOR a Ko-fi or donations. But I cannot write fanfiction and get PAID for it.
You see the people that do fanfiction commissions? Yeah, those? If any copyright owner saw that and they were partially in a bad mood cuz the writers are doing good money wise, they could SUE THEM for everything THEY own. It isn’t as liberal as fanart or pictures. Fanfiction writers will and CAN get sued for writing fanfiction and making money directly from it.
This is why during the ff.net years, you’ll see fanfiction writers put a disclaimer every single time that went along the lines of “I do not own x series and their y characters, nor am I associated with them, this is all a fan work and is done for nothing but entertainment purposes. I am not making money off of this.” So we could cover our asses. But even if we added that, if a particular brand or writer still hated it, they could take down your fic, just not sue you for it. Think of it as the youtube copyright strike, the content creator can literally just flag your fic, even if its a transformative work and take it down. That’s how copyright laws are, they fucking blow.
Ao3 has lawyers specifically to keep them open and protecting the content that is within ao3, something that most writers probably would never be able to afford and could get fucked in the ass for it because of big companies and copyright laws.
If ao3 makes 200k more than what it needs, then I honestly DO NOT GIVE A FUCK. If that money is divided in between like 4 people that’s 50k, roughly what is considered a nice living wage.
If the founder of ao3 for whatever reason is actually getting paid for everything they do and snatching some coin I honestly WOULDN’T GIVE A FUCK. Because they fucking deserve it, its like people except these people to live off of air or some bullshit like that. As if Money grows on trees and they don’t deserve a decent paying wage for all the effort they put into something that MILLIONS OF PEOPLE USE and enjoy every single day of their lives and where content creators can upload their works and meet other people that enjoy the same shit as they do.
So quit being a fucking dumb bitch and sit your ass down and eat your soup.













