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Francesca zappia books5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() They’re just not prepared to host them–nor defend them in court. ![]() They’re not saying that commercialized fanworks are against the law. People who want to do fandom differently, including making money, are welcome to go build their own site with their own money or their own donated labor.ĪO3 does not forbid commercial links because they think fans making money from fanworks is immoral but them making money ( to run the damn site) is fine.ĪO3 forbids commercial links because they are making a very specific claim about the legality of fanworks, and that claim is about noncommercial fanworks. It was built by us to house the type of fandom culture we liked. Like Anne Rice is dead and this isn’t the 90s anymore, people are making money from fandom please catch up with the times.ĪO3 was built by a bunch of us with our free donated labor for the purpose of being a space free from commercial spam. My opinion on AO3 is that it’s an important asset but i still find it scummy that they’ll ask for money but when their users try to ask for money they slam them with their non-monetization rules. I’d go bigger and just say that they’re the conservatives/reactionaries of fandom–or, to frame it differently, this is how conservative and authoritarian ideologies express themselves in the context of Fandom. The people who believe this crap are the anti-vaxxers of fandom. ![]() If OTW weren’t around, this wouldn’t be “scaremongering”: It would be the inescapable status quo. ![]()
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