Lee

YESSSS SO ADORBS

Honestly, the way people interact with fanwork, fics in particular, lately is legit just betraying what fandom is. This is supposed to be a community. You don't get to treat a creator as if you are purchasing a product and therefore is allowed to say and do whatever the fuck. Rating fics, refusing to hit the kudos button because of x, y, or z, comments saying you should've gone a different direction, saying the work should've been longer, or from a different pov, threatening authors for updates or you'll feed their work into ai to finish it for them, accusing authors of using ai when the problem is that ai was trained on AO3. People go out of their way to make stories about your favorite characters available for free and you don't have a single nice thing to say because you think you're entitled to it? Then you wanna complain there are no more good fics. Yeah, because you're killing authors will to share.

this gets me so angry, like i genuinely wanna write an article about this, it's devastating to see the effects of social media and the public scrutiny from the newgen fandom members who don't understand the etiquette required to be part of a growing community without paying for ownership of products

OOOOH

AWWWW SO CUTEEE I LOVE ITT