

#Archive of our own software#
The Archive’s open-source software is currently hosted at GitHub. Many of our volunteers acquired skills in coding, design and documentation through their work on the project.
#Archive of our own archive#
The Archive was entirely built and designed by volunteers from fandom. In 2019 it is used by over 1.5 million registered users, and has fanworks in over 30,000 fandoms. In July 2018 the Archive passed 4 million uploaded fanworks. The Archive entered open beta in November 2009 and reached 1 million uploaded fanworks in February 2014. The Archive is a wholly fan-created and fan-run space, where fannish creativity can benefit from the OTW’s advocacy in articulating the case for its legality and social value. It’s just one of the many, many, many fascinating parts of All the Young Dudes-and why it seems like, more than two years since it wrapped, its popularity won’t wane any time soon.The Archive of Our Own (AO3) is a noncommercial and nonprofit central hosting site for transformative fanworks such as fanfiction, fanart, fan videos and podfic. Which makes the popularity of All The Young Dudes entirely organic and grassroots in a way that few internet trends are anymore. There’s little to no financial incentive for MsKingBean89 here-any attempt to monetize a level of engagement that brands would kill for could potentially open her up to a copyright claim from Rowling. But since MsKingBean89 isn’t selling copies of All The Young Dudes, just allowing others to spend their own on bound copies of her writing, the argument is moot in this case. Profiting off of fanfic theoretically changes the legal calculus though actual legal experts are in dispute over that. The popular fandom logic goes that the only reason that fanworks aren’t technically violating copyright law is because they’re transformative, which means they’re different from the original work they’re based upon, and because they don’t affect the market of the original work. Succession’s Final Season Just Claimed Its Second VictimĪt first glance, the concept of printing out fanfiction might seem wild but it makes total sense-fandom is nothing if not committed-and it’s also sparked a discussion among fanfic readers and writers about copyright.It Is Long Past Time to Retire the Oldest, Dumbest Debate in Literary History Ted Lasso Fans Need to Just Accept That the Show Is Bad Now.Among countless memes and fancasts dedicated to the story, people have even posted clips of themselves printing and binding the entire, 500,000-word fic so they can have their own physical copies.Ī Q&A With the Author Whose Book Is Rocketing up the Charts Thanks to a Tweet From “Bigolas Dickolas” The spinoff hashtag #atydtiktok has 45 million views in and of itself. Few of of them have anything to do with the Mott the Hoople song, although almost every single TikTok that uses that song is about the fanfiction of the same name. Over on TikTok, the #atyd hashtag on TikTok has 704 million views.
#Archive of our own tv#
It has its own TV Tropes page, and there are hundreds of posts in the Tumblr tag, which includes some phenomenal fan art. It has almost 9,000 ratings on GoodReads and a 4.82 star average review score, which a lot of published authors would kill for. People have taken it upon themselves to read it for audiobooks in a practice known as podficcing. There are now YouTube reviews of this fic. And now it now has more than four million hits on Archive of Our Own. Jump to January 2021: By the end of the month, the story had reached just under a million hits. By November 2020, it had just under 300,000 hits. By mid-2019, it had somewhere around 100,000 hits on Archive of Our Own. Here’s some more numbers: The fic finished publishing in November 2018. All the Young Dudes in particular really had its moment in the second year of the pandemic, starting around the winter. The growing interest in All the Young Dudes of late has this movement of reclamation to thank, but there’s another factor: Fanfiction TikTok.
