♱ moln retweeted
У каждого есть право молча листать ао3 и никак не обозначать свое присутствие через лайки и отзывы, но делать из этого манифест, подробно расписывая, почему авторы не достойны того, чтобы ты милостиво нажал на сердечко и чиркнул "Спасибо за главу!", это жалкая и мудацкая энергия.
♱ moln retweeted
оно не изменилось, еблуша, ты здесь намешала сразу три направления - некоммерческую любительскую деятельность внутри узкого пузыря; коммерческое искусство при задействовании команды специалистов с высокими вложениями и надеждой на большие экраны; и отмывку бабла через гостендер.
♱ moln retweeted
“No community is created on ao3” so you admit you see writers as content cashcows with no feelings or emotions once so ever?
Replying to @ardy_public
and it is that nobody is making friends on ao3, no community is created on ao3, because that isn't what ao3 is *for*. ao3 is a place to upload fic. until tumblr nuked nsfw content, there were *always* spaces that existed to build community. discord kinda is that now but also not.
♱ moln retweeted
God I hate so much when I'm watching a streamer play Lis2 and they spend way too much time looking at/ responding to chat.
Like, please!! Focus on the game!! You're missing too much stuff!! 😭😭
♱ moln retweeted
they have misread every single statement made since ao3 went down i am lmfao
♱ moln retweeted
сравнивать, что сложнее, написание артов или фичков 💀
я делаю и то и то и мне, например, рисовать в разы легче.
за 3 часа я закончу рисунок, но текста выдам ну, мб тыщу слов +-
то, что все умеют писать, не значит, что они могут писать хорошо.
видимо кто-то не читал ⬇️
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♱ moln retweeted
it infuriates me beyond belief how all these posts have a maximum of 1k likes but if someone says ‘fic writers are so entitled’ they get like 40k likes
♱ moln retweeted
One thing that baffles me in what's been happening since Friday is the vibe. People are talking about fics like it's content while talking about COMMUNITY but act like authors wanting to be part of the conversation is attention seeking rather than wanting to feel included
♱ moln retweeted
клянусь когда ао3 восстанет я пройдусь по всем любимым фикам и напишу хотя бы букву, смайлик, звук в комментариях для авторов. моя менталка держится только на фиках которые мне хватило ума скачать
♱ moln retweeted
i struggle to understand where these kinds of posts even come from cause you guys would never say this about fan artists or editors who just don't want their work reposted anywhere other than the platforms they originally shared it on.
♱ moln retweeted
The AO3 situation is bringing to the surface a problem we’ve been sweeping under the rug for years: the double standards applied to fanfiction and fanart.
An artist can draw whatever they want and post it on social media, benefiting from algorithmic favoritism because their content is quick and easy to consume (because people scroll through social media in a matter of seconds. If something takes even one extra minute of their time, they won’t bother)
They can make money, to the point of building an actual career out of commissions (is that legal? Who knows… probably best not to look into it), and receive hundreds of comments or reposts because they deserve it and have worked hard to reach that level (absolutely true, and I agree. But so has anyone else who creates something. I didn’t learn how to sew cosplay costumes or write overnight. It took me just as much time and effort.)
A fanfiction writer doesn’t get that.
Social media platforms penalize:
- External links to websites like AO3.
- Walls of text (so no chapters published as posts)
- Certain words or phrases.
- Posts that don’t get immediately shared or commented on within the first few minutes after publication.
(I could go on, but you get the point.)
So, if we try to promote our work, we’re forced to commission artwork from artists (for a fee, see above) just to grab people’s attention with content that’s quick and easy to consume.
If we dare to ask for comments or any kind of feedback (completely free and anonymous), we get insulted because “well, I don’t want to be OBLIGED to say what I think, or to give a like/kudos/heart/smoke signal or crop circle to that idiot who spent sleepless nights in front of a computer.”
And if we ever dared to ask for even a single euro for our work (which nobody does, because we already know how that would end), just imagine the diplomatic incident that would cause.
So why bother? And don’t come at me with the joy of creating. I’ve been writing novels on my computer for 25 years, and I’m perfectly happy leaving them right where they are rather than sharing them for free with ungrateful people.
This whole situation is bringing one thing into focus: when all is said and done, AI isn’t really the problem.
































