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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]
In 2007, a website called FanLib was created with the goal of monetizing fanfiction. Fanfiction was authored primarily by women, and FanLib, which was run entirely by men, drew criticism. This ultimately led to the creation of the nonprofit Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) which purported to record and archive fan cultures and works. [3]
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.
A fan wiki is a wiki [a] that is created by fans, primarily to document an object of popular culture. Fan wikis cover television shows, film franchises, video games, comic books, sports, and other topics. [1] They are a part of fandoms, which are subcultures dedicated to a common popular culture interest.
A family tree of fictional characters, from a Catan fansite. A fansite, fan site, fan blog or fan page is a website created and maintained by a fan of or devotee to a celebrity, thing, or particular cultural phenomenon.
Cover Images The fanfiction community is still going strong. While The Idea of You is not technically fanfiction, it’s been hard for author Robinne Lee to escape from the speculation that the ...
Plenty of celebrities seem to have developed a reputation for being A-class A-holes. Not too long ago, Bored Panda reported on 30 times people met stars who turned out to be very unpleasant people.
To date, no fan fiction archive has failed to comply with an author's request to remove works, [dubious – discuss] and many archives feature a full list of authors whose work cannot be the source of a fan fiction on their site. [citation needed] Fan fiction hosting sites like MediaMiner and Fanfiction.net have lists of authors whose fandoms ...