Oct. 2nd, 2011 12:30 am
[research] Oh look, another Fanlib.
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Fanfic.me appears to be a company that tries to coax people into posting fanfic on its site so it can market visitor eyeballs to advertisers.
watersword has a ton of details here.
In-depth analysis and mockery will have to happen after a good night's sleep, because right now my brain can't seem to get past how incredibly hideous that site design is. So much orange. Ugliest banner ever. Why. And I don't know if there are even any real people over there, the profile names of the fic authors aren't clickable and all the comments seem to have been made by Fanfic.me itself. Did they just harvest stories from FF.net and change the author names? I tried googling the first sentence of a couple of the fics, and they were all posted to FF.net or deviantART under different author names.
Regardless, this one looks like a really special train wreck. It's... kind of pathetically cute, the way they throw "fanfic" around as a keyword, as if it's a magic spell that will draw all the "fanfic" writers to their site. Look at the way they keep using it as a hashtag on their Twitter account. I almost feel sorry for them, they're so obviously ignorant and incompetent and doomed and unable to see what's coming their way.
EDIT of no, still not sleeping: There's a lot more discussion/sleuthing going on in
watersword's post, including
franzeska digging up a hilarious news article about Fanfic.me.
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In-depth analysis and mockery will have to happen after a good night's sleep, because right now my brain can't seem to get past how incredibly hideous that site design is. So much orange. Ugliest banner ever. Why. And I don't know if there are even any real people over there, the profile names of the fic authors aren't clickable and all the comments seem to have been made by Fanfic.me itself. Did they just harvest stories from FF.net and change the author names? I tried googling the first sentence of a couple of the fics, and they were all posted to FF.net or deviantART under different author names.
Regardless, this one looks like a really special train wreck. It's... kind of pathetically cute, the way they throw "fanfic" around as a keyword, as if it's a magic spell that will draw all the "fanfic" writers to their site. Look at the way they keep using it as a hashtag on their Twitter account. I almost feel sorry for them, they're so obviously ignorant and incompetent and doomed and unable to see what's coming their way.
EDIT of no, still not sleeping: There's a lot more discussion/sleuthing going on in
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A friend of mine in academia recently had an unpleasant run-in with a colleague who had decided he was going to be the first person to study fanfiction. There is a not-inconsiderable group of people who think so highly of their knowledge in their field that they believe if they haven't heard of something, it must not exist.
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And oh yes, the things everyone "knows". The first person to study fan fiction? What sort of research was he planning to do? I really, really want to know. And at what state his preparations were. If he's the kind of academic who thinks Wikipedia is junk and Google Scholar is something for those damn kids who don't remember having to do scholarschip without internet or databases and uphill both ways... Then yes, he might not have discovered any research about fan culture in his department library.