#fan statistics

How Queen's Thief got too big for Yuletide [Fandom statistics]

Fandom: The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner Rated: G No archive warnings apply Word count: 1,344 - Not a fic; nonfiction, meta, fanwork research. - QT has officially exceeded the Yuletide Exchange's eligibility definition of "rare." Stats, charts, and discussion of the growth of posted works in the Queen's Thief fandom.

These are co-occurrence graphs for the tag ‘Romy’ on Tumblr, AO3 and Etsy respectively. Data was collected on all available instances of the ‘Romy’ tag in 2016. Graphics are taken from my PhD thesis, Serious Leisure in the digital world: exploring the information behaviour of fan communities. Thanks to @destinationtoast for the awesome Python code that actually made this possible. <3

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TUMBLR

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The most interconnected tags (betweeness centrality +1):

ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN

Entire dataset (it was huge - tagging on AO3 is so complex and granular in general) (ZOOM IN):

The most interconnected tags (betweeness centrality +1) (ZOOM IN):

ETSY

Entire dataset (Etsy was the least complex) (ZOOM IN):

The most interconnected tags (betweeness centrality +1) (ZOOM IN):