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Site Content/Features[edit]
As of February 2022, Fanfiction.net claims they host "millions" of stories [1]. The stories published to the site can be about new and old existing works. By 2001, almost 100,000 stories were posted on the website. Steven Savage, a programmer who operated a column on FanFiction.Net, described it as "the adult version of when kids play at being TV characters" and that the content posted on the website serves as examples for "when people really care about something" A. S. Berman of USA Today said in 2001 that FanFiction.Net "reads like the 21st century successor to the poetry slams of the Beat Generation."[2]
Story Publishing[edit]
Fanfiction.net has nine categorizes for the various fandoms/sub-categories on the site: Anime/Manga, Books, Cartoons, Comics, Games, Miscellaneous, Movies, Plays/Musicals, and TV Shows. Stories on the site can be published as either "Fanfiction" with only one assigned sub-category, or as a "Crossover" with only two sub-categories. Excluding crossovers, the top fandoms on the site are Harry Potter[3], Naruto [4], and Twilight.[3]
Writers may upload their stories to the site and must assign them a sub-category, language, and content rating. FanFiction.Net uses the content rating system from FictionRatings.com. This system contains the ratings of K, K+, T, M and MA. The MA rating and explicit violent and/or sexual themes are forbidden.[5] The ratings are no longer done on the MPAA system, due to cease-and-desist demands from the Motion Picture Association of America in 2005.[6] A list of explanations for the rating system currently employed is available from the drop-down rating menu in each of the individual archives on the site.[7] The MA (18+) rating is not permitted on this site.[8]. A short K-rated summary is also required for a story to be published. While not required, the website recommends authors upload a cover image to their story.
Reader Feedback[edit]
FanFiction.net allows readers to interact with stories and authors in a variety of ways. If the reader likes a story and/or its author, they can favorite both the story and its author [9] Favorites are similar to likes, hearts or Archive of Our Own's kudos. Favorite stories and authors are displayed on a user's public profile page at the very bottom. A reader can also follow a story and/or its author. When a reader follows a story, they receive email notifications whenever that story is updated. When a reader follows an author, they receive email updates whenever the author updates any of their stories or publishes a new one [9]. Readers can also leave reviews after reading stories, most of which are positive. [2] While reviews can be left by those without accounts, it is an option for all writers on the site to moderate "anonymous reviews", made by those who are not signed into an account. FanFiction.Net does not operate a screening or editorial board.[10]
Notable Fanfiction Work[edit]
(short thing that mentions works like (My Immortal (fan fiction), Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality), Fifty Shades of Grey that were originally posted to the site and are famous outside of "fandom" world.)
FanFiction.net also hosts one of the longest works of fiction ever written. The Subspace Emissary's Worlds Conquest, a Super Smash Bros. fan fiction written by FanFiction.net user AuraChannelerChris, gained media attention for its length of over four million words at the time of notice, more than three times as long as In Search of Lost Time written by Marcel Proust, and is still being written.[11][12][13] The longest fan fiction on the site is The Loud House: Revamped, a crossover fan fiction of The Loud House which is over 14,000,000 words long as of February 2022[update].[14]
- ^ "Fanfiction.Net". Google Play Store. FictionPress. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
Bermanlamewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b "Book Fandoms". Fanfiction.net. FictionPress. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- ^ "Anime/Manga Fandoms". Fanfiction.net. FictionPress. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- ^ "Guidelines". FanFiction.Net. Retrieved October 9, 2019.
- ^ O'Connell, Pamela Licalzi (April 18, 2005). "Please Don't Call It a G-Rated Dispute". The New York Times. Retrieved May 20, 2011.
- ^ "Fiction Ratings". Fiction Ratings. Archived from the original on October 9, 2013. Retrieved July 16, 2013.
- ^ "Terms of Service". FanFiction.Net. Retrieved August 26, 2011.
- ^ a b missemeraldslytherin, (username). "Following and Favoriting". Fanfiction.Net. FictionPress. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
timewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Proust is no match for these two fanfics". dailydot.com. July 24, 2013. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
- ^ "Meet The College Junior Behind The Longest Fan Fiction Ever". BuzzFeed News. August 2, 2013. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
- ^ "fanfiction.net". August 2015.
- ^ "fanfiction.net". May 6, 2021.