My Dearest Husband Is Sick From Typhoid Fever (Ao3 Is Taking Longer To Respond To Requests Than Usual)

My dearest husband is sick from typhoid fever (Ao3 is taking longer to respond to requests than usual) I shall simply die (I will cope easily with the extra five seconds of waiting)

Yes! You get it! Just cause a fandom might seem dead doesn’t mean it actually is, people are called the Dream SMP a dead fandom and I’m like… ‘I write for it??’ Sometimes it’s a bit discouraging, but imma do it anyway!

When you say a fandom is dead, it’s a bit of a blow to people who are still producing and enjoying work for that fandom. You’re basically saying what they’re doing doesn’t matter, doesn’t count, which might discourage them from continuing to participate.

If one person is creating content, the fandom isn’t dead.

If one person is consuming content, the fandom isn’t dead.

If two friends are chatting on skype about their OTPs, that’s fandom.

If someone doodles drawings of their favorite characters on a napkin, that’s fandom.

Just because someone is producing content for one fandom doesn’t mean they have to leave another.

Not every fandom can be the big, new, shiny and popular thing.

Not every fandom *should* be the big, new, shiny, and popular thing.

It’s okay to have small, tight-knit fandoms. They can be just as fulfilling and entertaining as the big ones.

No one reblogs on tumblr anymore.

No one leaves comments on Ao3 anymore.

Seriously people the lack of fandom interaction these days makes me genuinely depressed, it never used to be like this, makes me wonder what's the point of coming online to do anything anymore.

Reblog a post so other people can see it.

Leave a comment so the author doesn't feel like giving up.

Fandom cannot live on Likes or Kudos alone.

“dsmp phase” nuh uh it’s actually my dsmp lifetime. this story and its characters will always be part of me, it’s fused with my soul at this point. there may come a day where i don’t think about it that often anymore but part of it will always linger behind in my heart

“I’ll just write this short little fic”, the author says, not realising they’re doomed by the narrative

Of course it's AI, i m getting to the point where I Hate AI

PSA: bot comments are taking over ao3

The above examples have been provided with the authors' permission to demonstrate what these look like.

Basic rundown:

They are all 3 sentences long

Perfect grammar, capitalization, and punctuation

Like absolutely flawless English teacher-style writing with only a single exclamation mark, ever

No mentions whatsoever of character names, settings, situations, or anything that could be tied to the story

The usernames may be identical to people who exist on ao3, but the name is not clickable, and no profile is associated with it EXCEPT when you directly search for that name. What this means: the comments come from an unregistered (not logged in) reader, bots scrape the site for real usernames, attach that to the comment, and post

Please spread the word about this so authors can filter comments and report them accordingly

There has been some speculation about why this is happening at all, and the best guess is that this is a feature that AI-training story-scraping tools are implementing to try and make their browsing traffic look legitimate