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optiwashere · 8 months ago

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I have a lot of (mostly negative) thoughts about Wattpad, but everything that's happening over there w/r/t another fandom purge is why AO3 exists in the first place. It's sad to watch another cycle of queer and sexual art get removed because of Corporate Values, regardless of my personal opinions.

Everyone unfamiliar should do their Fanlore homework on Purges, starting with the infamous FFN purges.

#random fandom thoughts #I don't like social media and Wattpad was always a weird middleground for me #in that algorithm-driven sites rot people's brains and they turn their own art into “content” to “drive engagement”#also people stole my work and posted it there TWO separate times so lmao #but even so that doesn't mean I think people's art that they themselves made should be cleansed from the site #I'm also really not looking forward to Wattpad folks mistagging on AO3 to “drive engagement”#or posting “placeholder fics” (which are against TOS btw)#but they will learn some way or another

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