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Xing Li, a software developer from Alhambra, California, created FanFiction.Net in 1998. [3] Initially made by Xing Li as a school project, the site was created as a not-for-profit repository for fan-created stories that revolved around characters from popular literature, films, television, anime, and video games. [4]
Archive of Our Own (AO3) is a nonprofit open source repository for fanfiction and other fanworks contributed by users. The site was created in 2008 by the Organization for Transformative Works and went into open beta in 2009 and continues to be in beta. [2]
The Organization for Transformative Works offers the following services and platforms to fans in a myriad of fandoms: . Archive of Our Own (AO3): An open-source, non-commercial, non-profit, multi-fandom web archive built by fans for hosting fan fiction and for embedding other fanwork, including fan art, fan videos, and podfic.
One of the most notable stories on the platform is the After series by Anna Todd, which was originally published as a Harry Styles fan fiction. [60] After its large popularity amongst the One Direction fandom and the app's readers, the story became the most read book on Wattpad, [ 61 ] having achieved just under 10 million unique readers on the ...
All the Young Dudes is the most viewed piece of fan fiction on AO3, with over 16,000,000 hits. [18] The story has been listed at number one on AO3's "Top of all Fics". [19] In addition, the story is the top Harry Potter fan-fiction on the site and has become an influence for other "Wolfstar" stories. [19]
The Gossamer Project is a group of specialty archives that, combined, contain the vast majority of X-Files fan fiction on the Internet. [1] In the mid to late 1990s, the Gossamer Archives/Project was one of the "big three" single media fandom-focused archives on the Internet, and remained the largest single fandom fan fiction archive [2] until the emergence of various Harry Potter archives in ...
The term fan fiction has been used in print as early as 1938; in the earliest known citations, it refers to amateur-written science fiction, as opposed to "pro fiction". [3] [4] The term also appears in the 1944 Fancyclopedia, an encyclopaedia of fandom jargon, in which it is defined as "fiction about fans, or sometimes about pros, and occasionally bringing in some famous characters from ...
Web fiction is written works of literature available primarily or solely on the Internet. A common type of web fiction is the web serial. The term comes from old serial stories that were once published regularly in newspapers and magazines. Unlike most modern books, a work of web fiction is often not published as a whole.