#fandom analytics

We love a good statistical analysis (this one isn't that good, but it's honest) of fandom, so let's see about the very specific opinions on different tropes.

Omegaverse

Soulmates

Slow burn

Fuck or Die

Hurt Comfort

Fluff

Enemies to lovers

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As promised, here is the link to my survey! Fill it out and pass it around!

https://forms.gle/8aczoQJQtwTWWjAp6

I will keep this open and live for about a month (so until September 2nd, 2021). Depending on responses, I may extend that.

Thank you again to those of you who reached out with thoughts and suggestions. 

I can’t wait to hear your thoughts and responses, regardless of where you stand with your opinions.

As this is a survey that will be analyzed, the more responses this gets, then the better.

The survey is anonymous and I am not collecting emails (though you are welcome to send in yours in case you want updates)

The first sheet is filled with the top 15 most written for fandoms on ao3. For a few of the fanbases, like marvel, I condensed subtypes of that fandom into their higher ranking umbrella term (i.e., both marvel and marvel’s avengers was on the top list, and since avengers is tagged with marvel most of the time, I only did the averages for Marvel). In cases where there are multiple formats for the type of media, I referenced the “related works” tag for the numbers which I got (i.e., Sherlock, while the show is written for more often than the Arthur Conan Doyle novels, I used the “related works” as a catch all for that fandom).

This is what happens when I’m avoiding writing. 

Recently I was thinking about how much SladeRobin (particularly SladeJay) has taken off in the last couple years. Before 2016 I hadn’t even heard of anyone shipping Slade with anyone but Dick. I got curious about the actual numbers, and since AO3 only lets you view your own stats, I did my own data scrape. 

This is what I found:

A clear example on why not to believe any bronly’s “we’re the silent majority” BS.

Above we have the reblog graph of this post claiming Destiel shippers don’t like Sam and won’t like Sam bonding with Cas (I know, ridiculous).

The big red arrow points to the original post, the big green arrow to my reblog of a friendly “actually everyone I know loves Sam and can’t wait for this”, though it later descended into idiocy because well, as you can see, they didn’t much like the fact that their post had a dozen odd notes before I reblogged it and now has nearly 800. As you can see, this is where it became of note.

From this you can clearly see that the original post had a few notes, then exploded when I reblogged it and other Destiel shippers and Sam fans came to rebuff the claim. Later on we have a reblog from them (small red circle) with the arrow showing a single line of a few bronlies adding to it (and the same people repeatedly so it’s even less than it looks) saying we are all so stupid and fake, until I reblogged it again. The other offshoots (green arrows) are all Destiel positive reblogs too.

If anyone ever dares tell you bronlies are the majority or even a slightly significant number in this fandom remember this, this is one of their own posts and it clearly shows they are vastly outnumbered. This doesn’t even really show many non Destiel shippers from reading the reblogs and we know there’s loads of non Destiel TFW loving SPN fans out there too, so the % is even lower fandom wide rather than just in comparison to Destiel shippers. 

Anyway. Food for thought. They’re negative, spread unfounded lies about others (like who we like as characters I mean come on, those are basic lies Susan) and at the end of the day are really very insignificant in number. We all knew it already but I like this pretty clear representation on one of their own posts.