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The dark side of fandom

Creative Control

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The Problems With AO3

AO3 is the nonprofit we talked about in our first episode. It's an archive of fanfic created and run by fans. Before that companies that own fan sites like LiveJournal decided to crack down on fanworks based on their own internal criteria. AO3 has its problems as Rebecca mentioned but it was created in part to store fanworks in a way that was not bound to corporate whims.

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