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The AO3 Demographics Survey 2024 has arrived!
This project is an independent survey (not affiliated with AO3) which seeks to research the demographics and behaviours of AO3 users. The survey will take about 10-15 minutes to complete, will be open until 1 February, and can be found at https://forms.gle/2kt5J17ipzcAbnFY9
We are hoping to survey as large a group of users as possible, so we really appreciate anyone who shares the survey, whether by reblogging this post or sharing posts on other social media.
If you have any questions for us, we have FAQs on Tumblr or on AO3 which will be updated as the project progresses. And of course, you can follow us on Tumblr or AO3 if you want to see the survey results!
#ao3 demographics survey 2024#survey promotion#fandom statistics#fandom stats#archive of our own#ao3#fandom research#fandom survey#demographics#ao3 demographics
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it's like the tumblr polls!!! baby no matter how you slice it ao3 is white as hell!!! the people with sense already knew!!!
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ElleKhen here! I'm curious about the demographic make-up of my readers.
This is anonymous and absolutely only on a voluntary-basis. Please don't feel obligated to fill this out if you would prefer not to, I'm just curious. :)
Tried to be thorough but the poll function only allows for so many options! So sorry in advance if I missed anything (and feel welcome to let me know in a comment or message.)
#ao3 author#author rambles#churchstarion#churchverse#bg3 fanfiction#ao3 demographics#fic demographics
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AO3 Ship Stats: 2024 (public&locked fics)
I collected ship data on AO3 to calculate what the new top 100 ships on AO3 were as of 2024 and also to see what ships were most popularly written for the year.
I've seen other fandom people do this but I was always a little concerned with some of the things that I saw in the data collection methods, like ignoring locked fics in the count, which I thought could really impact the actual data, so I decided to learn how to do it myself.
This is the post on AO3 with tables and charts, if anyone is interested in knowing where their fandom is in the top 100 of the year or of all-time!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/56455240
I'll also put the data tables here in case you want to read the visual. Hope this is interesting to somebody!
The new all-time top 100 ships on AO3 after taking into account all fics up to June of this year!
Distribution of ship types among the top 100 ships on AO3, F/F is at 4% :(
The top ships written for 2024 only.
% of works that a ship has in its fandom
#ao3 fanfic#ao3#fandom statistics#fandom stats#archive of our own#fandom#fandom research#fanfic#demographics#ao3 demographics
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super fucked up that nobodys writing the fic i want to read except me...
#& also like three other people total.#im sorry but the state of the ao3 tag is dire. this is what i get for being in a fandom where the main demographic isn't Grown Adults....#whateverrrr. time to reread brutal & dendrogaster & comment on whiskeys marks fics -_-#pd lb
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"you're like me,
you have that same emptiness."
colors are shit.



#art#vinsportgar#fanart#kishou arima#take hirako#tg:re#tg#tokyo ghoul#tokyo ghoul root a#tokyo ghoul re#tokyo ghoul:re#hirako take#arima kishou#doves#black goat#ccg#arihira#is that. the ship name?#idk#anyways another art with a demographic of possible three people#shout out for us rarepair fans#ima post it at ao3 too maybe because idk maybe it will have more reach
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I did research for my friend to see about old ass The Left Hand of Darkness fan fiction and we were surprised to learn despite it being an alien sex book it never had a lot of stuff for it and maybe none until like 2012, people love alien sex books
#moose.txt#the left hand of darkness#I don’t read fan fiction because ao3 makes me anxious and I’m perhaps too picky#but there should’ve been more at LEAST porn.#crazy that it’s so popular among the demographic that doesn’t write fan fiction and it hasn’t bled into the demographic that does
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In the AO3 Demographics Survey 2024 - an unofficial demographics survey of 16,131 AO3 users - 71% of respondents were native English speakers, and 57% lived in part of North or Central America.
To see more analysis, including comparisons to the userbases of other websites, please view the full results on AO3.
#survey results#ao3 survey#ao3 demographics#ao3 users#english speakers#native english speakers#english as a second language#geography#location#residence#continent#archive of our own#ao3 demographics survey 2024
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My favorite game to play on ao3 is "guess which character is the author's self-insert by correlation with which character gets written most often as trans"
#In DS9 fandom for example it's Bashir#It rarely fails due to ao3 author demographics and the fandoms I read
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So I first got into comics and the Batman fandom during the height of my Teen Tumblr Years, around 2012-2016, and the fandom had a fairly specific vibe - a little niche, mostly sprung out of the Young Justice Fandom, very focused on complaining about the New 52
I’ve finally gotten back into comics this year (because I actually have disposable income now lol), and yes the fandom felt bigger and more sprawling, but I didn’t quite comprehend how much bigger until I decided to compare how many fics were tagged under the Batman fandom when I was reading as a teen

Versus now

That’s a WHOLE 100,000 NEW FICS??? And seemingly most of them written during the pandemic????
Like no wonder it seems like there’s more drama and infighting, there’s so many more people!! It also explains the shift in, shall we say, fandom norms and accepted tropes in Batfandom spaces, but that’s a whole other thing
#Batman#batfamily#ao3#archive of our own#the way I can tell the demographics of the fandom has gotten younger just by looking at ao3#and this isn’t me being all ‘back in my day’ or anything#just interesting how it’s changed
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does anybody find exaggerated pervert characters actually funny at all. this post is about how much i fucking hate master roshi & hate when fanfic, fanart, or other works contain roshi for the sole purpose of making characters uncomfortable. how is his presence as a sexual predator not like.. actively upsetting? like i get sometimes its kink whatever ok, maybe i didnt read tags & thats on me. but it is too frequent to use roshi sexual harassment as an aside, og db-esque, as if thats some sort of standard that /needs/to be met
#i tjink the demographic of db fic writers on ao3 must be very vague in order for me to see this happen at all. to be fr#theres so little shit to read that i end up reading dog ass fic. punches crater into ground
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ONLY 5 NCT FICS ON AO3 MENTION POPPERS... oh girl this is dire. im part of the problem but god damn
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The results are in!
Thank you so much to everyone who answered this survey last week! I loved getting more insight into who's been reading and following my work, (and putting this together was pretty fun too. :D)
A couple of takeaways:
To all the ace folks: Well, I'm going to assume you're here for the angst and plot. Otherwise, I hope y'all haven't minded the smut! ^_^;
Shout out to the guys who've been enjoying my fics! I'll be honest, as someone who's been primarily writing mlm, it's tremendously validating to know you're here!
Overall, I was pleasantly surprised by the wide distribution of responses! All in all, no matter how you identify, I'm truly honored to know that you've all been enjoying this lil' Churchstarion universe.
As always, thank you so much for reading! I look forward to sharing more of these stories with you as our adventure goes on together. ❤️
(Not sure how readable the image is, so here's a text-only translation below the fold:)
ElleKhen's Self-Reported Reader Demographics
RESPONSES (n=26)
Female - Asexual/Aromantic/Demisexual: 26.9% Female - Straight/Heterosexual: 15.4% Male - Bisexual/Pansexual/Queer: 15.4% Female - Bisexual/Pansexual/Queer: 11.5% Male - Gay/Homosexual: 7.7% Non-binary/Gender-queer - Bisexual/Pansexual/Queer: 7.7% Non-binary/Gender-queer - Asexual/Aromantic/Demisexual: 7.7% Female - Lesbian/Sapphic: 3.8% Non-binary/Gender-queer - Lesbian/Sapphic: 3.8%
NO DATA: Non-binary/Gender-queer - Gay/Homosexual, Male - Asexual/Aromantic/Demisexual, Male - Straight/Heterosexual
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BREAKDOWN BY GENDER
FEMALE (n=15) Asexual/Aromantic/Demisexual: 46.6% Straight/Heterosexual: 26.6% Bisexual/Pansexual/Queer: 20% Lesbian/Sapphic: 6.6%
NON-BINARY (n=5) Bisexual/Pansexual/Queer: 40.0% Asexual/Aromantic/Demisexual: 40.0% Lesbian/Sapphic: 20.0%
MALE (n=6) Bisexual/Pansexual/Queer: 66.6% Gay/Homosexual: 33.3%
#ellekhen#survey results#bg3 fanfiction#churchstarion#data visualization#author rambles#churchverse#ao3 author#reader demographics#mlm fanfiction
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I made the mistake of checking on Twitter and happened to see R. S. Benedict having rancid fanfiction opinions again and I need to go for a walk for like an hour or something to calm down
#did you know that fanfiction is mostly enjoyed by 'socially maladjusted white women'?#and that this is proven by the demographics of the favored ships on AO3?#not the shippers the ships themselves#and popularity of asian ships means nothing because it's just like white guys and hentai?#enjoy#I wish Benedict weren't the author of the 'everyone is hot and nobody is horny' article so I could totally block her out of my mind#fandom
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Sometimes I feel tempted to look up fan content for my fav niche book series, but then I realize I'm on tumblr and I will just see people giving the male lead double masectomy scars. And it will be in the ugliest art style you can possibly imagine.
#tbh i like the series so much i feel embarrassed to even look at anything relating to it#i once looked up how many fics it has on ao3 because i wanted to see if it's more popular amongst women#but it felt like I obtained forbidden knowledge lol#i don't even wanna know what they're doing with it on on this site lol#it had less than 300 fics btw#i don't know what that means about the fan demographics since it's not popular or anything so that's like net 0 info#maybe looking up fanart on pixiv would be better
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