The Concept That A Lot Of You Don't Understand Is That AO3 Is Not Just Another Funky Little Fanfiction

The concept that a lot of you don't understand is that AO3 is not just another funky little fanfiction upload site like Wattpad.

Its very specifically a content archive.

Its not a social media site. Its not like BookReads or Wattpad or the Kindle library.

Its for the preservation hosting of fanfiction. Think of it like a museum. When you upload your fanfiction there, you're basically donating it to a museum where its preserved, protected, and displayed.

That's why AO3 doesn't have the same rules and regulations as Wattpad. That's why AO3 doesn't allow for monetisation. That's why AO3 doesn't have content mining and ads and all the other stuff Wattpad does.

If you want to keep benefiting from those things, you need to understand and respect what AO3 actually is and how it functions.

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(By full shift I mean think of the werewolves from Twilight as an example.)

Have you perhaps ever wondered why an alternate AO3 using its open-access structure and code hasn't been created yet?

I mean, if you're so opposed to AO3 and its policies and its literal purpose, instead of spending all your time trying to infiltrate it and report it and push everyone 'icky' off of it... Surely, you'd instead put even half that effort into supporting and creating a fanfiction site where none of the stuff you oppose is permitted?

Someone had to make AO3. Someone had to design its policies and consult with legal teams and create a business structure and pyramid of duty. Its evidently possible to do so.

So.... Why haven't you done it yet? I genuinely am curious.

For all the discussions I see from 'antiship' people about AO3 itself and how it needs to be purged or removed or changed or what have you, I don't think I've ever actually seen even a fraction of discussions revolving around either supporting another existing website, or creating an entirely new one.

If you want real discourse, ask your fandom if the favorite character would be an anti or a proshipper.

My new favorite act of warfare is going on Instagram and commenting babygirl on posts involving Billy Hargrove. As we speak I have 16 pending message requests from positively incensed white girls.