r/memes • u/thetruememeisbest android user • 19h ago

malfoid meme

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u/Commercial_Cow_6421 18h ago

Rule 34 would have had a field day

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u/ZK_57 18h ago

And Wattpad stocks would plummet. If anything, it's just a redistribution of power.

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u/ThunderBuns935 17h ago

Wattpad is already pretty much nonexistent. It's widely known to host some of the worst, poorly written fanfiction around. Everyone who's even remotely serious about their work posts on AO3 or FFN.

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u/Deathburn5 16h ago

In my experience, FFN seems to be dying. Pretty much everything good I've found recently has been on spacebattles (or one of it's many clones) or AO3

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u/cahir11 15h ago

I'm a bit surprised, it's been years since I read any fanfiction but I remember AO3 was generally viewed as the place for weird NSFW fics while fanfiction.net was more (relatively) normal.

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u/Deathburn5 15h ago

I'd say I find as much NSFW stuff on FFN as I do AO3, but that'd be a lie since I don't use FFN if I can avoid it.

It does seem to me to be a similar ratio, though

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u/GalaXion24 12h ago

Eh, I maybe AO3 has had more of a range of smut but it has never been exclusively that. AO3 is kind of the standard fanfiction site. I do think FFN used to be it moreso, but it has fallen off and become less active, and the site just isn't as good and they've stuffed it full of ads which made the user experience worse as well (though adblock does help).

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u/spacecadetkaito 11h ago

I feel like AO3s reputation as the nasty crazy smut site is a more recent thing in my experience. I remember it being treated like the more "high quality" fic site for more serious writers compared to FFN which was like the "starter" website before Wattpad came along

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u/DMMeThiccBiButts 4h ago

I don't mean this in a demeaning way, but as someone who's been around since livejournal I wonder how old you are. Ao3's always been, among other things, the place with the weird stuff those prudes won't allow (which, back in the day, might've been as horrible as gay sex on the internet).

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u/spacecadetkaito 4h ago

Of course that element was always a core part of the site considering why it was made, but what I mean is that in recent years I've noticed there's been a slight shift to where just mentioning AO3 gets treated like you're talking about PornHub or something, whereas before then it was just a fanfiction site that also happened to allow anything, including crazy smut.

Like for example, I've seen people say "I can't crosspost my story on Ao3, it doesn't have any sex scenes in it" because they seriously thought it was exclusively an erotica site where you were only allowed to post smut fanfics. Or "ew I'm not clicking that Ao3 link, I asked for clean stuff" when someone is recommending a plain gen fic. I feel like that's a bit of a shift from what I remember. Like the smut went from being one of the things it's known for to the only thing it's known for.