#thai drama fanfic stats

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Thai Drama Stats Special Edition:

The Great Archive Lockdown 🔒

Hi folks! In case you weren't aware, there are various scraping bots that trawl through AO3 and use the data for AI training, content mill sites, or other vaguely nefarious purposes. One site, "Fanfic Books", is essentially creating an unauthorized mirror of AO3. Here are some posts about it.

To combat this, many users have recently chosen to "Archive Lock" their fics.

What is Archive Locking?

An archive locked work, or "restricted" work, is only visible to users who are logged into AO3. This prevents anonymous users (and bots that aren't using login credentials) from reading your fic or finding your fic in searches. This doesn't block all scraping bots, but it should keep most of them out.

What does this have to do with fandom stats?

The AO3 scraping I do doesn't use login credentials, so I can't count archive locked fics. That's totally fine! I am in no way telling you to stop archive locking! Lock or unlock to your hearts content!

It does, however, mean that the data I pulled from my Thai Drama AO3 Trends Dashboard this week (July 1 - July 7, 2024) are looking especially strange.

Holy moly! We actually have negative growth. More fics were locked than posted, which is why the Net New is negative. I'd estimate that about 1% of all previously public Thai Drama fics were archive locked this week.

This matches trends on all of AO3. This week, the total number of publicly available fics actually decreased by 0.7% -- and that's including all the new fics being posted!

When did this happen?

The timing for both Thai Drama fandom and all of AO3 is pretty consistent.

For Thai Drama fandom, most of the locking happened on Friday, July 5, but there was also some locking on Sunday.

When we look at all of AO3, it seems like most of the mass-locking happened on July 5th as well, with additional locking happening all throughout the weekend.

Which Thai Drama fandoms were most affected?

When we look at sheer numbers, KinnPorsche, of course, has a lot of newly-locked fics. 3 Will Be Free, My Engineer, and Dark Blue Kiss were locked down a lot as well.

When we look at the top fandoms by negative growth, The Player saw almost all of its fics vanish overnight. 3 Will Be Free was cut neatly in half.

This data is cool I guess, but... so what?

If these numbers are accurate, it represents another sudden and massive shift towards archive locking on AO3.

According to @star-grazing's stats about archive locking in December 2022, the total number of archive locked works on AO3 increased by 70% in just a couple weeks after a reddit post went viral about AI bots scraping AO3 for machine learning material.

Those stats show that in December 2022, 5.79% of AO3 fics were archive locked. When I checked the numbers again today, 9.37% of all works were archive locked.

Using rough estimates, from the last few days of AO3 data, I'd say that the total number of archive locked works increased by 8% since last Thursday (7/4). And trends seem to indicate that the great lockdown is still going!

Anyway...

Thanks for sticking with me! This is a really fun time to be collecting AO3 stats :) If you have more questions, feel free to reach out. I also put some more details under the cut! Thanks y'all!

Are we sure it was archive locking, and not some other data issue?

Er, good question. It's my best guess, and I've tried to rule out other potentially culprits. The AO3 Fandom Trend Analysis Dashboard, which has data about all fandoms on AO3, doesn't seem to show anything amiss. Their data uses login credentials, meaning they can count archive locked fics.

I also went through several tags manually while logged in and logged out to compare numbers from this week to previous weeks. It doesn't seem like there was a mass deletion or retag that I could see.

I also used the "restricted:true" search operator to search for archive locked fics while logged in. A lot of those missing fics pop back up!

I absolutely welcome other theories though, if you think of one!

Is this still happening?

Seemingly yes, for Thai Dramas at least! When I checked the "All Thai Dramas" AO3 search this morning, the total number of Thai Drama fics had dropped below the 40K mark - lower than when I first started keeping track a month ago!

We probably have a lot more archive locking in our future!

How do I archive lock my own fics?

There's a really good tutorial over here.

Help! I don't have an AO3 account, so I can't read all these archive locked fics anymore.

Please message me! I have some spare invites.

Which fandoms are the most "locked down"?

I'm not sure, but there is a Fanlore article about Hockey RPF and the Fourth Wall which provides some comparison stats. Hockey fandom has traditionally been one of the most locked down fandoms; less than half of hockey rpf fics are publicly available.

You can also peruse this AO3 search to see all archive locked fics.

[gillianthecat]

Tropes - This and That

Thanks for the tag @kireshai! I did this one already, so instead I channeled my inner overachiever and came up with a drama series, film or fic for each of the tropes. All links go to either MyDramaList or AO3.

found family or soulmates || slow burn or established but complicated || enemies-to-friends-to-lovers or best friends-to-lovers || love at first sight or get back together || morally grey character or unreliable narrator  || sunshine character or sarcastic character || self-sacrificing or teamwork || fire-forged friends or childhood friends || description-heavy or dialogue-heavy || fluff or angst  || high school au or college au || flower symbolism or color symbolism || hero from the start or reveal the hero near the end || body swap or gender swap || bed sharing or clothes sharing || magic au or human au || de-aged or future fic

Some of these jumped into my head right away - the fic for de-aged gave me this idea in the first place; I don't generally like that trope but thought that fic was amazing. Others don't exactly match their trope, but were something that I liked that sort of fit.

Stats: There are 18 dramas, 1 film and 15 fics. Dramas: 8 Thai BL, 3 Korean BL, 3 Japanese BL, 1 Taiwanese BL, 1 Chinese censored BL, 1 Chinese bromance and 1 Korean (b)romance. Plus 1 queer film from China/Hong Kong. Fanfics: 5 Hockey RPF, 3 Harry Potter, 3 The Witcher, 1 The Untamed, 1 Les Mis, 1 Formula1 RPF and 1 Downton Abbey.

I'm not going to tag people this go round, but anyone who wants to do either the original version or this one should consider themselves tagged.

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Weekly Thai Drama Fanfic Stats

Week of 6/24/24 - 6/30/24

Each week I'll use my Thai Drama AO3 Trends Dashboard to pull some data from AO3 about the quantity of Thai drama fics posted the previous week.

Weekly Summary

Note: The number of fandoms with new fics might be wrong here - I found some inconsistencies with my filters. Should be fixed in future posts!

Daily Totals

Top Fandoms

Fastest Growing Fandoms

Note: We Are: The Series is actually one of the fastest growing 100+ fic fandoms on all of AO3 right now! See ao3-anonymous's post.

See more data on the Thai Drama AO3 Trends Dashboard or on the AO3 Fandom Trend Analysis Dashboard.

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Weekly Thai Drama Fanfic Stats

Week of 6/17/24 - 6/23/24

I'm starting a new tradition inspired by @ao3-anonymous -- each week I'll use my Thai Drama AO3 Trends Dashboard to pull some data from AO3 about the quantity of Thai drama fics posted the previous week.

Weekly Summary

Daily Totals

Note: I'm pretty sure that on June 17th and June 19th, a bunch of fics were either deleted, archive-locked, or retagged. A few fandoms -- especially My Engineer -- actually saw negative growth this week.

Top Fandoms

Fastest Growing Fandoms

Note: We Are: The Series is actually one of the fastest growing 100+ fic fandoms on all of AO3 right now! See ao3-anonymous's post.

See more data on the Thai Drama AO3 Trends Dashboard or on the AO3 Fandom Trend Analysis Dashboard.

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Weekly Thai Drama Fanfic Stats

Week of 7/01/24 - 7/07/24

Each week I'll use my Thai Drama AO3 Trends Dashboard to pull some data from AO3 about the quantity of Thai drama fics posted the previous week.

Weekly Summary

Note: Curious about why we're seeing "negative growth" this week? The answer is probably archive locking. Check out my "special edition" post to learn more!

Daily Totals

Top Fandoms

Note: "Net New" equals new fics minus fics that are archive locked, deleted, or retagged. A lot of fandoms that typically see a lot of new fics each week aren't on the list this time because of the high amount of archive locking.

Fastest Growing Fandoms

Note: We Are: The Series is actually one of the fastest growing 100+ fic fandoms on all of AO3 right now!

See more data on the Thai Drama AO3 Trends Dashboard or on the AO3 Fandom Trend Analysis Dashboard.