#except inasmuch as it's like the “person who's never seen X explains X” meme

[dandelionsandderivatives]

Look, there's nothing inherently wrong with writing fanfiction for something you've never seen/read/engaged with. It's not morally wrong.

That said, I can't imagine why anyone would want to do that???

I mean, why spend your precious and limited free time writing something you don't care about? If you're making your living off it, that's one thing, but fanfiction?

I haven't come across this irl yet, but I also can't imagine it would be a super good/interesting experience for the reader, except as a kind of anthropological study to see how much canon a fandom-blind writer can absorb.

This is something I'm seeing more and more on AO3 that I'd never seen when I first got into fandom stuff, so I wanted to find out how you all feel about it.

What are your thoughts about seeing posted fanfiction that isn't commissioned, where the creator says that they have never read/watched the source material? For example, someone putting out a fanfic for a show they've never watched that includes the tag Author Has Never Seen Suchandsuch.