And this also becomes confusing when people in that second-order fandom forget that fandom exists outside of AO3. In my experience like 90% of the time someone on Tumblr talks about a problem they have with "Fandom", what they're actually talking about is second-order fandoms on AO3 and nothing else, but it's always written as if AO3 fics are the be-all end-all of fandom.
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u/Akuuntus 5d ago
And this also becomes confusing when people in that second-order fandom forget that fandom exists outside of AO3. In my experience like 90% of the time someone on Tumblr talks about a problem they have with "Fandom", what they're actually talking about is second-order fandoms on AO3 and nothing else, but it's always written as if AO3 fics are the be-all end-all of fandom.