the infamous fanfic that changed AO3 forever
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- Опубликовано: 15 май 2022
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“I’m bad at tagging”
Sugar cube, you didn’t have to tell us, we can see that.
Believe it or not, I was spared due to me being too busy to read or write on the website. And, this wasn’t my first introduction to “The Untamed,” thank god.
unrelated but im making a grilled cheese rn
"I'm bad at tagging"
*TAGS 4400 TAGS AND MADE AO3 PUT A LIMIT*
@@rickrolled3666 omg my first spam comment yay
I mean, if you have 4400 tags, you **are** bad at tagging.
Bad at tagging? Malicious at tagging. Evil at tagging lol
@@jauxro LMAO YEAH exactly evil
@@kumirapau-chan9880 half of which including ships that don't fit in with the story, and including stuff as titillating as "plates". I think what happened was the writer was trying to use as many tags as possible to maximize clicks, regardless of whether or not the tags made sense. Just a weird sort of marketing strategy all around.
9:59 "AO3 is like a warehouse, a mean to store fanfiction, a library of sorts"
Some extremely brave souls could go as far as suggesting it might be an archive
An archive that we can go on whenever, an archive we can post on whenever. As if it's our own
@@astralterra2906 So that's it huh? We some kinda... Archive of our Own?
@@PTp1ranha that's a great name, they should make it official
@@ittybittyprince hmm its a bit long though...how could we ever shorten it? 😮
@@sj211 maybe since there are 3 o’s we could call it… AO3? 🤔🤔
I started dying laughing when a screenshot said
"Zoom in and whatever you see first is how you die"
"Cooking lessons"
LMFAO
Did you die of food poisoning
or murder by the instructors
or accidentally cut yourself and got an infection
Etc.
I did that just now, my result was the "BABYBABYBABYBABYBABY" part of Mass Destruction
I should be scared but im legit crying launging rn
A loving marriage.
LOL
"Medical Professionals" Well I mean yeah probably?
Mr. Mix
I’d like to think the author sat down for hours, laughing maniacally while typing mass destruction in the tags like some supervillain
I mean, they did say they watch CP, so ya, they pretty much *were* evil
@@Sly-Moose wait WHAT. Like CP as in children??? Bro spill the tea and did they get arrested??? Did they have any victims cuz now I'm morbidly curious
@@Sly-Moose Oh, watching CP? I thought they meant they were taking a break from writing CP lol
@@howaboutno2639 I don't actually know which it was, but either way it's bad!
@@partygamingz3332 I only know from that screenshot of the post of them wishing the "trolls" would die from covid popping up in the vid. I'm just as clueless about the situation as you guys, people! 😅
I know that Ao3 authors were built different, but this one is just mass destruction
I am mass destruction thanks 🥰🥰
they are an alien
Ooh yeah! Duh nuh nuh nuh nuhnuh nuh nuh nah-
@@fantasyshadows3207 pow pow pow
Look up the 227 incident, that's truly the most effect a03 has ever had. Crazy...
the 'non-consensual tickling' tag made me laugh harder than i expected
i just found the 'vagina talking' tag. my day can't become better
could you say that the tag ….unexpectedly tickled you?
@@Garth-tholomule kinda🥲
my question is: when is tickling consensual?
I recently tagged a fic with "non-consensual cuddling"
The fact that the "threesome" tag is right next to the "exam" tag is hilarious 😂😂
Also I didn't even know sexy times with Wangxian was happening because I always filter out crossovers
Gotta do what you gotta do man
The “I’m bad at tagging” tag is peak comedy.
the irony is strong in this one 😂
"good writing" did it for me. i haven't read it so idk how good or bad the writing is, but it certainly takes confidence to tag your own fic as "good writing."
Followed by the "you've been warned" tag
i used the generator and got "short and random" like girl no
As a fanfic reader that reads exclusively on AO3 and by some miracle never came across this monstrosity, this is the funniest thing I've ever heard.
Ikr? I have been on ao3 for well over a year, but I don't think I ever saw that monstrosity! We are the lucky ones
I never came across this fic either
Ik I'm literally crying from laughing at this shit
Luckily for me I didn't get to ao3 in time to see this monster
Same, i read since 7y regularly on ao3, but it's also not my fandom, in fact i never even heard of this before the video
Let's not forget the impact of BTS army and other kpop fans in finally getting this fanfic taken care of. It was after they tagged it with various kpop fandoms that it finally ended up being addressed 😂
The video makes it seem like army didnt get the chance to do anything, but I remember going on army twt and seeing the amount of people mass reporting and complaining to ao3 😂
Pahahah us kpop stans are just built different
Bruh they took the "Im about to end this man's whole career" meme to a whole new level lol 😂
Salute to all the K-pop stans who went absolute beast mode to take this monstrosity down 😂 O7
do NOT fuck with kpop stans online they will change the rules of a fanfiction site forever
@@iwakeupandboomimarat Do not fuck with kpop stans if they can directly impact you in any significant way, in case they cant go mock them relentlessly.
Her:- Take a number
Me:- 150
Her:- 44
Me:- Guess I overestimate-
Her:- Hundred
My brain:- What in the devil's work is that!?
I guessed 500.
heyo i guessed 150 as well! I went "Well, double the later-imposed limit seems overboard." I was mistaken.
i guessed 2k 😭
I guessed 300
If AO3 existed when My Immortal was written, you’d better believe it would have a crap ton of tags like this
They wouldn’t even be preexisting tags, either
viower excretion advisd!!!
I literally have heard this fanfic mentioned twice today, and I don’t know what it’s about besides Harry Potter, and I would not like to figure out because “my immortal” genuinely sounds like one of the most old tumblr name.
is that the harry potter fanfic by bloddy rist
@@Dietcocklover Oh, you SO need to at least try to read some of it!
My old roomies and I tried reading at least part of it out loud while drunk once. ( We'd already read parts on our own before, and there was NO WAY we were doing it sober.) We lasted about 10 minutes, and we weren't sure whether we were laughing or crying over how bad it was. It's a rite of passage.
I’m honestly surprised AO3 didn’t have a limit on tags in the first place. As a software developer, you learn very quickly that there’s always going to be someone who will try do something insane.
perhaps it been updated but i recall there being a limit?
nevermind i didnt read your comment right, im sorry!
I'll be honest, I'm an engineering student who hangs out with a lot of unhinged engineers; most people in my circle don't add counter-measures in their passion projects just bc they want to see what will happen. So i can understand why ao3 wouldnt have that limit until it absolutely had to have it.
I mean in their defense they probably didn't think someone would even bother.
Specially considering that they had a limit for how long a tag could be so you would think they would have seen this coming lmao
Whenever I see someone complaining about AO3's tag limit I immediately know they were never inflicted with Sexy Times with Wangxian
Note: the author is still on AO3 and only has 2 fanfics, neither of which have been updated since 2019. Both are MDZS and Wangxian fics.
Do they still go by the same name?
@@rio-wp2vw: Yes
I love the tag "I'm bad at tagging". Like... understatement of the century, your tagging almost took down an entire website dedicated to documents organized via tags.
Bad at tagging, or really really good ?
gangsta shit
@@moemuxhagi suffering from success
@@moemuxhagi
"I put the fires out."
"....You made them worse!"
"Worse?...or *better?* "
@@spacecakery Wait what's that from, I desperately want to know, now 😂😂
Ao3 is just so goddamn wild.
I'll be reading a fanfiction worth being a New York times bestseller, then scroll down and see the most inglorious string of words ever put in a written work. Unhinged. I spend 5+ hours on this site daily.
Lmao this is the best Ao3 promo I’ve ever read. I’m going to read only Ao3 for now on
I spend more than 8 hours per/day and I totaly don't regret it
AO3 is legitimately the best writing site I've ever encountered and I L O V E it.
@@shmeepness1700 What fandom? I found some good stuff in the FNaF, Undertale, Gravity Falls, and Henry Stickmin fandoms. Ironically, if you want comedic or romantic fics, the Henry Stickmin Collection is where I found my favorites.
@@VenomQuill oh theres only fandom stories? I was thinking like a book where the characters are made up like in some wattpad stories but if not then I guess the henry stickmin comics, or one with William afton where he is not a murderer , or one with sans and all would be like x reader
the wildest thing is that a bunch of those tags are definitely not canonicals (the tags AO3 suggests to you) meaning they weren't just hitting a key and selecting all the suggested tags, the author manually typed out a *bunch* of those tags...
MY FRIEND, MY GF AND I WERE ON FT AND MY GF STARTED TRYING TO READ OUT EVERY SINGLE TAG FROM THIS AO3 FIC WE ALL SOBBED
"cock blocking" "cock teasing" "priests" 💀💀
“Forty four”
Me: Oh that’s not that bad? Not bad at all actually. I’ve definitely read fics with more
“Hundred”
SPITS
ikr i was like wait did i just get clickbai-HOLY SHIT
I read your comment before she said it and i still spat
I had guessed 100 and was like, oh 44....4400!!!!
I actually guessed 60 or 70, so when she said "44," I was like "thats much less than i expected" and then she said "Hundred" lol
@@bandrade7302 440 or 4400??
"Take a guess at how many tags there were"
"200"
"Fourty-four-"
"*disappointed* oh"
"-hundred"
"*shocked* Oh."
I literally guessed 1000 and thought I had gone overkill with my guessing, but 4,400 what the hell
that was literally my thought process xD
I thought my guess 375 would of been an overshot but I was so wrong haha
I guessed 145, then thought I was being too harsh, only to realize I was being too nice lol
I took the same 🤣
" sexy times with wangxian " is one of the most traumatizing yet stupidly fucking funny thing I've ever witnessed in my life, the amount of times my browser crashed because of it was unreal bro 💀 I eventually stopped going on AO3 and just moved to Wattpad, after awhile I kinda forgot about it till I saw this video 💀 so thank you in a way for telling me AO3 finally got rid of it bcs I can finally go back bro Wattpad has had no good shit lately 💀
have you srsly been using wattpad until 2 months ago?! i feel sorry for you
Wattpad? Oh nah
As a Wattpad author who isn't yet confident enough to go on AO3, I both love and hate our community lol.
I used Wattpad for 2 years until I found out AO3 exists. As both a Wattpad author and reader I can confirm my mental state is damaged from all the bad fanfics.
@@limbo9993Me too bro
as a good omens fan I can say our fandom is _relatively_ chill, so the tag for crowley’s glasses made my heart DROP
HOW IN GODS NAME WOULD YOU FIT GOOD OMENS INTO THIS MONSTROSITY
😭😭😭 AINT NO WAY
As a good omens fan, there ain't NO WAY 😭😭😭
I read this as “as a good omega” which honestly isn’t far off of a normal comment on a Coley video.
As a good omens fan I am so upset
To quote a world of warcraft boss (in the spirit of crossovers lmao) "Men, women, children... none were spared the master's wrath. Your death will be no different."
Coley: guess how many tags
Me: 1,000
Coley: 44
Me: I severely exaggerated it
Coley: hundred
Me: I severely underestimated it.
i thought the same number lmao
I guess 108 then changed it to 324 at the last minute
I thought it would be 2000 lol
Same
Literally me
This author knew the system. She started the fire and sat back as the chaos unfolded and fanfiction world burned.
Oh they didn't just start a fire, they started a fire and then intentionally kept throwing more fuel tanks on it. This was not sit-back-and-admire-your-work, this took *effort*.
I live for this type of chaos
To be fair they didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning~
"It's not about the fame... It's about sending a message"
@@Endless-fire Just pouring napalm in, tossing c4, mixing bleach and ammonia, some radioactive elements, the whole fucking shebang.
4:25 My brain went '1003!'
Me: "What- no, Brain, that's stupid. There couldn't possibly be-"
Coley: "44."
Me: "See, I told yo-"
Coley: "**Hundred.**"
my guess was at 1700, I like the number, and looking at the number of tags the image of the background had I thought it was gonna be a big number... but I couldnt even imagine the sheer amount of them there was, it didnt fit in everything in the screen even with the zoom-out, the thing kept scrolling and scrolling down and it wouldnt stop coming more
It was a calm day reading on a03 and wanted to read about sexy times so I literally looked up sexy times and wangxian. Nothing came up so I changed to sexy times with wangxian. I came upon this monstrosity. Me goofing around made me witness a key moment in history.
The sheer brain power to even think of that many tags, I can barely think of 20 on average
You see, you were trying to make them relevant to the story. He wasn't. How many different character, ships, random words can you think of
Same. All my fics have, like, 10 max.
I only can think of 3
smut, fluff, angst
I STRUGGLE to even get 10
20, try 10
The fact that "Drunken shenanigans" and "government conspiracy" are directly next to each other makes me laugh to no end
That’s basically half the plot of the og book so ...
The literal Plot of mdzs in just two tags
trust issues, trust, loss of trust
entire stories can be made from these tags
This is, quite literally, the entire plot of inside job
махинации
Actually, all three of MXTX's novels have the line, "He didn't know whether to laugh or to cry." I'm assuming it's the authors go-to sentence at this point😭😭
mo xiang tong xiu being emotionally indecisive canon!??!?!?!?!?!????!?!?!?!?!?!
@@consumingkazoos CANON OMG WE FINALLY CRACKED IT
@@EverFlower whats crazy is ive never read any of their books ever
I can't tell you how much I appreciate that you can actually pronounce all the Chinese names from the fandom correctly!
They're the reason why the number of tags has been changed. There's a limit now 😭😂
Lmao
i love ur pfp
I hate it so much. I miss being able to have as many relationship tags as I want.
No way
@@localmenace3043 What kind of fic needs 70+ relationship tags?
Imo what the author did was not unintentional. And what they said about "technically following the rules" and blaming ao3 really tipped me off. What they did was misusing and abusing a function ao3 gave them for their own benefit and to the detriment of others. They basically found a blind spot on ao3's system and abused the shit out of it to gain popularity. And when it started to cause problems for other people their response was to deflect blame and continue doing it. That is a no no in my book. You don't do that shit with purely harmless intentions.
Yeah, I agree. When ppl started to complain... that's when they were doing it on purpose clearly.
yeah, and when people tried to inform them that what they were doing was bad, they would get so upset. they even made a few twitter accounts to gloat about it *not* being against the rules.
i was kinda there when it was all going down and they definitely included a death threat in one of the chapters for people who complained about the fanfic, which was why the fanfic itself got locked lol
I personally read in AO3 only once in a while because I hate their tag system. So many authors abuse the tags and it's so annoying when you have a specific character you want to read about but they are shoehorned with 10 other characters. Although what this author did is malicious. I applaud them for their dedication but the fact they crossed tag as well is a big no in my book. Tagging EXO? My hero Academia? Marvel? And 74 other fandoms? That's desperate and straight sad. If they knew it was causing problems for others but also continued it then this author deserves to be blacklisted. It doesn't deserve any attention and nobody should go "search for it". Don't give it more glory than it already got.
@@roserain7034 it's already gone off the site and the author doesn't post there anymore
When one person is enough to drag down the impression of an entire fandom is just wild, I don't know whether I laugh or cry _😔_
Am i tweaking or is that emoji italicized?
Your not
My genuine, out-loud reaction:
"44"
oh.
"Hundred"
OH
The tag “useless lesbians” has me absolutely crying, it’s right next to teleportation too 😂😂😂
That would be a very funny fanfic by itself
Useless Lesbians is actually a useful tag surprisingly, it does let you find a certain type of fic about a certain type of relationship
@@SirenOfStyxx true lol
@@keiyakins this makes me questions what the tag useful lesbians has.
Useless lesbians & Teleportation, a random chance for a gay person to randomly teleport when they don't realize that someone likes them.
I want a shirt with "I survived Sexy Times With Wangxian" written in the front, while the back is completely covered with all the tags written in a small font so all of them can actually be put on the shirt
This is genius
YESS exactly what i was thinking. i would buy it even though i never suffered through it XD
Me a graphic designer: interesting…
reminds me of the shirt with the entire bee movie script on it
I WILL PAY THOUSANDS FOR THAT
The amount of sheer determination the author of STWW had for all those tags has me in awe.
they may be a villain... but they are big brain moves with the complete works and newly updated... absolutely diabolical and honestly hilarious. no idea how i never found this fic
also the fact that they wrote over 1 million words is insane i love fic writers
"Average AO3 work has 17 tags" factoid is actually just statistical error. Average AO3 work has 11 tags. Tags Georg, who lives in a cave and makes over 100 each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
what if... you wanted to sort by Date Updated.... but Tags Georg said
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Harry Potter, BTS, Supernatural (TV 2005), The Backyardigans - All Media Types, Hetalia, Hamilton - Miranda, Minions, Morbius, The Bible, The Beatles
Chapters: 1/?
Tags Georg, you mean the author of Sexy Times with Wangxian?
I understood that reference. 👀
Love a good spiders georg reference
There are three numbers used for "middle" in math, the mean, the mode and the median.
You might be confusing them. If we assume that 11 tags is the most common, that would likely be both the mode (by definition the most common) and the median (the one in the middle, which in case of anything approaching a bell curve would be the same as the mode or close. However, the average can be both lower or higher than this, due to statistical outlier. In this case, the higher end outlier of 75 or above.
For example, consider the following sample: 8, 9, 10, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 75.
The mode is 11: the most common number.
The median is 11: there are 11 numbers, the 6th number is the median (in case of even, it is the average of the center two)
However, the *average* is 16.
The thing she was reading from says: The average number of tags are 17 and the most common have 11(which can be said to be "the average work" have 11), these two statement can both be true at the same time.
It is worth noting, however, that while the thing she is reading from might be correct, she said "typical work" which is.... mode. Which make what she *said* wrong.
Edit: her follow up statement of 17 is the average and 11 being most common, on the other hand, is completely correct(assuming that the data is 17 mean and 11 mode/median). It's... undisciplined of her to say things different ways, they do actually mean different things.
Generally speaking, for things that is unlikely to have outlier , we use average. Otherwise, we use median, precisely because a single large outlier can mess up the average horribly. Mode is rather rarely used because it's kind of a weird concept to grasp and tend to overlap with one or the other so is usually rather moot. But while you can make the choice to use the median or mode to effectively ignore the outliers, you *cannot* make the choice to exclude outlier from averages.
Ao3 is the best thing humanity created after the print. You can actually find solid stuff for free in your fandom about your obscure pairing. Also shameless smut just because
yet i cant find anything for a character that canonically reads 2 po rn books a day
@@Noirenoe that's sad dude
Unfortunately, there’s an old show I liked and I thought for sure there would be my obscure pairing in a03… I was wrong. Currently, there is not a single fanfic for the pairing I liked in that show 🧍🏽♀️
The fact you can find a fic worthy of a noble prize with how freaking good it is and then find the wildest most trashy, smut, or chaotic fic that makes no sense right underneath it is by far the reason I love ao3
I find myself having to write the obscure pairings, myself.
I saw the wangxian fic in the beginning and I got up from my chair and screamed STOP because I genuinely wasn't expecting wangxian to ever be in an ao3 video
same 😔💔
The way I'm in so many of these fandoms but didn't see this fic must mean that I'm the luckiest person alive 💀
ao3 is carrying so many people's mental health, we can't take another STWW.
so3 is a shrine to pedos and discrimatory. It wrecked more mental health then it helped
Why are you calling me out like that
I live off of ao3, i still hope it’ll become an app at some point
@@gamblenpc9996 same
I want to make an STWW clone. But I cant.
Absolutely no hate on Coley at all, but it boggles my mind when she has sponsors. Like the massive balls on Brightland to have their name on a fifteen minute video talking about BL fanfic drama. It legitimately makes me respect her sponsors gads more than usual lol
There are sponsors who don't care what content their product will show up alongside with. As long as their target demographic sees it, they're satisfied. Makes me wish RUclips advertisers were all like that, less trouble for content creators.
They get publicity so it doesn't matter lol
It really doesn’t matter, since we get “Publicity” am I right
It almost makes me not skip the sponsor part. Key word almost.
They know what the public what
I am an avid fanfiction reader and it truly amazes me how detailed and personalized tags had become in recent years. Never imagined them to be that precise and that many. A little on the unnecessary side, if you ask me.
Ao3 is honestly a gift. Like this was the same site where some guy had the longest fanfic ever (it was about super smash bros) and half of it was spamming words. This is the same site where the longest fanfic rn is a loud house fic with 31 MILLION+ words. I love it
"It had so many fandoms tagged it was impossible to ignore"
Me who always excludes crossovers: 🙈
LMFAO
This is meeee mood
Meee i was wondering why ive never heard of this but been on ao3 awhile
So THAT’S why I’ve never seen it
So that's where they hid it!
Oml I remember when this happened, people on tumblr were trying to make ao3 skins to block specific users, just so they could avoid this 😭
absolutely crazy of them to say "im bad at tagging", we can tell.
This Fanfic should be displayed in a Museum to preserve it for Future Generations
Praise be our Space Mom for sacrificing her life and dignity just to give us content 😭❤
you didnt get no bitches. you got no replies
all hail 🙇♀
yea lol
coley: "how many tags? go with what your hearts says."
me: ...411?
coley: "44."
me: oh.
coley: "HUNDRED"
me: OH
Mine was 67 at first
Mine was 100
I said 500
I said 84
Mine was 75
The choice to use handholding as a tag to exclude brought me so much joy. I was literally cancelled for drawing 2 unrelated teenagers holding hands. Thanks 💞
How do you come up with a fanfic with a million words 😭
Excuse me?
A loud house fanfic has like 31 million words and its still going
@@giratinabasado8436Holy fuck
@@giratinabasado8436is the author deranged?
And he's 31 and also autistic @@eniej
I’m not much of a fan fiction reader myself but this is gold, I couldn’t stop laughing oml imagine explaining this too ur parents and not laughing
Love your comment but there are 666 likes and I don’t want to ruin it
Nazo uleashed is the only good fan fic
People with sight disabilities using site reading apps were not laughing then.
My mom caught me laughing at my computer while reading the tags and she made me explain it to her lol
Can you really call yourself a Big Fandom if you don't have an infamous Fanfic?
I don't recall Pokémon, or my hero academia, for example to have each one Infamous Fanfic.
I mean, both would get some midly infamous ones because of the shipping or other things, but one really bad that it got talked about wildly enough? Never heard about, but both fandoms are still big enough imo.
the danish slaughterhouse.
@@clemente3966 i mean my hero does have an infamous fan artist though *cough* *cough* erinclover *cough*
@@monika_888
I guess that it's good that I've never heard about that person then.
But lemme guess, that person does content for ships that are questionable at best?
@@clemente3966 no it's this 20-30 year old woman that ships herself with bakugo and has drawn very lewd things with him as well. This situation was very split between the fandom though
11:25 ...this...this is just 1984 omg
I've only started on AO3 last year (2021-2022), and as I’ve never seen this monstrosity, two things: *thank god* , and secondly: this made me laugh my ass off on a Saturday at 3 o’clock in the morning. Thank you.
As a person who never knew about this before hand, seeing the amount of tags was absolutely horrid
How? Why? When? What? So many questions 😭
I had guess 97 and when she said “44” I did a sigh of relief
Until I heard hundred, that literally broke me
Same oml i guessed 200 😭😂 authors are a different breed of unhinged
I guessed 700
i guessed 1,973-
I guessed either 800 or 1020 lol
i guessed 1,133
Can we all agree that fanfics that say are complete but keep updating is literal hell?
I find ones that are the other way much worse though. Sometimes I've gotten really invested in a fic only for the last update on the supposedly complete fic to be a message from the author that they wont finish, sorry. That's just trolling!
@@madametrafficjam8347 at least say the fic is abandoned like 💀
*is guilty of this*
@@madametrafficjam8347 Me: puts "Completed fics only" in the filter
The fic, at the climax: sorry i has to abandon this lololol
@@madametrafficjam8347 I really felt this one and it hurts very bad
4:42 I literally had to pause because I was watching this at 3 am and didn’t want to wake any of my family up from my giggling. Perfect song choice, 10/10
after reading all of the tags (yes i read all of them), before hearing the story I would like to make a couple predictions of what it’s about.
- One character is a general in fantasy China (idk the actual fandom behind these characters), the other is an emperor or someone of high social status.
- There is magic. A lot of magic.
- The general dies, and their lover goes into the spirit world and asks for them back.
- through spirit world shenanigans, the emperor and the general keep getting reincarnated into different lives and have to keep finding each other. every single time they find each other, one of them dies tragically.
- The lovers were both originally male, but sometimes they get reincarnated as females and have to deal with dysphoria and such.
- The lovers find a way to beat the system and live happily ever after together without dying tragically in the process (or if they do die tragically, they go to heaven or something)
- the characters have sex. a lot. there will be a lot of sex in this story.
gonna edit this comment later to see if i’m right
edit: OK never mind this video didn’t tell me what it was about lmao
This makes me think that someone should create a fanfic museum or something to commemorate this type of thing
I mean that's more or less literally what Ao3 and Fanlore were created to be, so to be so terrible that they won't properly deal with your nonsense is like, the highest degree of self burns lol
"The longest piece of literature of any type in any language by word count is a Super Smash Bros. Fanfiction."
@@junjunjamore7735 it's a my hero fic now :(
“Take a guess.”
Me: “50? 150?”
“It’s forty four.”
Me: “Man, my first guess was so cl-“
“Hundred.”
Me: “What in the actual hell?!”
U were closer than me I said 5
Same. My guess was 150.
I thought it was over a thousand and when she said 4400, I was like, "I'm not wrong"
I went for 550 and I thought I'd be too far...
I went for 1000 and was about to go lower before I heard it. Crazy
I first got into ao3 in 2020, and I never once came across this fanfic, and from what I can see of some of the tags on that enormous wall of them, it’s because I was filtering out crossovers.
Either way, I’m glad that I never experienced whatever nightmare those people had to endure. 😅
omg, only finding this now has me scratching my head trying to figure out how i somehow avoided this fic 😅
I guessed 45 tags and felt like I just got so close to reaching a new, transcendental life form, only to die like Icarus, flying too close to the sun.
wait this is so funny lol
I guessed 7,000. I guess I just slammed face first into that sun. At least I went out in a blaze of glory.
I guessed 50 so I feel this
@@SymphoniaFly Plus your death had a pretty lightshow. Not being slammed into the ground at terminal velocity is a definite improvement in my books lmao
I guessed 145, she said 44 and I was all "Oh, I may have overestimated it", only to get the feeling of getting hit by a train then launched to the neighboring galaxy when she added "hundred"
"You couldn't escape STWW no matter what you did"
I still wonder how I can be so active on AO3 while having never heard of it.
Right?? I’ve been on AO3 since 2016 (although I’m not as active as I was when I was younger) and this is the first I’m hearing of it :0
It's how you use it. I bet you don't search specific tags and, like myself, instead just go into the list for a fandom you like. If the fic had no involvement with those fandoms, then you'd have never come across it. For example, I pretty much only read Miraculous Ladybug fanfic.
Same! Which is odd, because when I was younger I was into much more anime (which seemed to be the majority of the fandom tags)
Maybe it because I simply search for ships tags exclusively, never any specific scenarios.
Hmmm that's what I've been wondering as well... It just came to me: maybe it's because I always exclude crossovers when searching. And as this one fanfic was basically _full_ of them...
Same I never encountered it and I've been there for a while!
I remember this! This is when I went into Ao3 public site skins and found one that didn’t show all of the tags at once. Lol. Pretty sure someone made that in response to this - whoever did that, thank you very much. I appreciate your service.
I guessed 57 tags, and when you said 44 I was like "oh, I'm pretty close" and then you said hundred. my jaw has never dropped faster.
honestly, people should stop looking for loopholes in ao3 (or outright break the rules). it is literally the only place u can comfortably read and people constantly trying to push its limits will probably be the same people who's going to complain when it starts to get stricter.
i mean making loopholes improves the rules, so i say it's a win
@@mollypaws The problem is AO3 prided itself on being very loose with rules as apposed to all other sites that form a similar function.
@@mollypaws Oh yeah, except the reason why a03 was born in the first place because there’s too much rules
If people can’t even keep shit under control when freedom is given to them, Fanfiction’s story purge would be the better alternative
I hated the 75. I liked to tag a decent bit, but not an excessive amount. Mostly just characters and ships, which I had a lot of, and then maybe 30-40 actual tags.
true but when i see like 40 tags i skip over it cuz im not reading 40 tags to see if its worth clicking. if anything the limit for tags should be 10 - 15. with some mandatory if its a fanfic that is with naruto. which the mandatory tag would be naruto. then you can add what you want. but i mean really 75 tags. thats way WAY too many. i mean whats the point. just spoil everything for all it matters. such as their personality motives and just giving everything away in the tags alone.
I don’t care what anyone says, I was incredibly relieved when they limited the number of tags you could put on a story. It was so annoying to scroll through ao3 and having to deal with story after story with a page or more worth of tags. No story needs that many tags. If you can’t fit all of your tags in that thing truly are necessary, make an author’s note within the story. Those are easier to read anyways when you need to convey a lot of info.
Or just get good and learn how to tag? Brevity is the soul of wit, and I tend to ignore page-long tags. Tags aren't meant to be spoilers or essays. They give some basic info/summarize the story, possible trigger warnings, and set the mood. You probably won't find "improper use of cupcakes" on a more serious/darker fic. Buy you may find it in a fluffy or silly one. If you need 100 tags to convey the fact you're writing a story in "x genre" with "x mood", you're doing something wrong. That's not mentioning the fact there are built in trigger warnings, appropriate age range indicators, and seperate character/relationship tag groups.
@@VenomQuill also tags should help you find a fic (e.g if you look up hurt/comfort then you find that kind of fic!)
ao3 actually has a setting that allows u to collapse tags (without need for a skin) so to c the tags u have to click first. makes it way easier to ignore fics with too many tags
I mean.. was mango truly necessary?
@@nerak3162 Unless you're talking about the landshark, most likely not.
The first thing that came to my mind was My Immortal lol
I was laughing at first cause a smut fanfic for wangxian with 44000 tags is hilarious and then the author went psycho lmao... lowkey wanna go read bland times with wangxian now tho....
but I’m just confused as to how this person came up with so many tags. like “sean is real” and “blueberries” and “life-affirming sex.” TF IS LIFE-AFFIRMING SEX?!
Confused necrophilia?
@@VenomQuill SURE
Magical sex?
Sex that is so good/bad that you're like: "Yup, I must be alive" ???
I assume it means "oh thank fuck we lived, let's bone now."
"If AO3 goes down it's over for me." Oh honey me too
this could be a drinking game, on the archive, press ctrl+f to bring up the word search, type in any word, everyone guess the amount of result will show up and the one furthest away will take a shot, bonus for anyone to get it spot on, also take a shot
The author who decided to add all of those tags was probably just bored one day writing a new fanfic and then when they had to tag it the question of "is there a limit to the maddening levels of chaos I could create?" and boom, sexy times with wangxian!
As someone who uses Ao3 regularly, especially during 2020 & 2021, I have no idea how I somehow managed to dodge this fanfic every time I looked up fanfic there
I didn't either, but like _late_ 2020 onwards I think. The perks of finding a niche???
I'm honestly not sure if I came across it or not
like me... very carefully and pretty dang lucky our fandoms were never in it!
Somehow the handful of fandoms I'm in didn't get hit
Haha, yep! Same here. Most of my fandoms are popular to an extent, but I somehow have not encountered this fic during that time frame. Eh, some of them are kinda niche. And I mean kinda
I'd also like to bring to attention the person who wrote the AO3 fic and put the entirety of George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' in the tags
Lmao
Wtf really
Holy shit-
What’s it called
Legend
From what I've seen and what I've heard, there are three different types of readers on AO3. People who just like to occasionally read some fan written extended universe stories, really horny people, and the weirdest people on the internet lol. It sounds like this writer was both the second and third type of person.
Kudos to the author...I can only imagine her sitting on the computer with the shrimp posture laughing maniacally as she types 😂
what annoys me the most is that they didn't even put warnings for underage and non-con while they had the time to put so many pedophilia related tags
IM SORRY WHAT-
WHAT
Yeah same. That's the stuff you tag first so that people can click off immediately. No one is reading all the tags, so even if they added these tags, no one would see them in the middle of this novel of tags
I thought I saw it somewhere in there but I guess not
And it's one of the most important tags in existence, it's even in the filter search I think
Wow...as someone who's preferred fanfic site is ao3, I am surprised I didn't stumble upon this fic. This is really fascinating!
same
Same
Lucky. I had to rewrite my site site skin to block the author
@@ystacalden That does sound annoying...luckily this is no longer an issue.
Same. I guess he didn't tag the batman fandom
Im glad at the time this fanfic existed i didn't know AO3 existed or fanfic in general it probably would have ethier exploded my phone or make it a nightmare to look for FNAF fanfic or both!
Oh god, I remember being on Tumblr/twitter back in the day and seeing people talk about this fic and its tags…
Legitimately went from "I'm bad at tagging" to "LAUNDRY"
WAIT. So this has basically just told me that the *entire* reason I missed STWW through the entirety of 2020 and 2021 despite being part of multiple fandoms listed in the tags is just because I dislike reading crossovers so much that I exlude them in every search... I can't tell if I'm abnormally lucky or not
Me too lol
OMG that makes so musch sense. I just started wondering why I never even heard about this. I don't like crossover either. Oh my god didn't even think about it.
SAME this is the first time I’ve heard of this
SAME. I hate crossovers so i just got rid of it lmaoo
That makes so much more sense
Oh my god. I am so lucky I didn't properly start using Ao3 until late 2021 purely because I avoided this fic overheating everything I own. STWW sounds like it was so traumatising, and I'm afraid a couple of the fandoms I'm in might have been tagged, which since disabling crossover fics was the only consistent way to avoid it, I would have been screwed because of the nature of the fandoms I'm in having SUB FANDOMS so can be considered crossovers. I'm glad I didn't have to see that ever
Oh my god, I didn’t realise it till now but this fic used to be my enemy when I was new on AO3 😂! I was always too pissed off by having to scroll through all the tags (I was on an iPhone 4 too😢) to even bother reading the title, but what a way to be greeted to AO3.
All I gotta say is that the author for sure did a Light Yagami evil laugh when putting down all the tags.
Someone should make a meme of the list of tags replacing the list of names in the death note while Light does his dramatic writing stuff
And he did that while eating a potato chip
Just watch me, AO3. I'll solve equations with my right hand... and write tags with my left... I'll take a potato chip...*heavy breathing*... AND EAT IT
death note was literally tagged aswell
i remember bc it kept showing up when i looked at the deathnote tag 😭😭😭😭
When your AO3 tastes are apparently so obscure that you only just now heard of this despite regularly being on AO3 at the time it was happening
Right lmao I’m reading fics from fandoms that have been dead since the 2000s
Lmao I feel that most fics I read are from the early 2000s I hadn’t even heard of this fic until now.
real
i definitely would've found STWW if i didn't exclude crossovers
My ass was in fandoms like b99 and fallout and I'm sure If I saw it I woulda cried
The boon of being in relatively less popular fandoms. I was in the Among Us, Friday Night Funkin, and Madness Combat fandoms at the time. So I missed this monstrosity.
I'm so glad i found this video again it's so fun to watch your channel ❤❤
“The tag system was flawed.”
*flashbacks to that one Encanto fic that wasn’t tagged for incest but had it*
Let me guess, Mirabel and Camillo?
@@NothingOfNoteToSeeHere yes but plus Bruno
@@arrow_of_ravenclaw5155 Oh, boy... worse than I thought.
@done running don’t you have a life?
@@arrow_of_ravenclaw5155 it's a bot, so no it does not. Please report it for spam.
I'm really glad they now limit the tags to just 75, but I would love if they could up their system to include little subsections like Main Pairing, Sub-Pairing, Main Character, etc. That way, when searching through fics, I would not get stuck reading 12 chapters for my OTP to show up for half a scene and then disappear when they were tagged first...
I was thinking the same thing! I’d probably have three tiers:
Main
Sub main
Background
When it comes to ships and also maybe characters. I see generally people tag the main ship first and main characters first as a rule, but not always. I just feel like I’m missing out on good material because of how the system works.
Honestly, I wish we could have the option to tag each chapter and have those tags appear on the top of said chapter (with a "Show More/Less" feature). That way, I can say "yes, these characters appear" or "this chapter is where the content warning label is really needed", or even "dish soap". Then we could have a dropdown menu of which chapters have which tags and be able to skip the parts we really don't want to see, like dish soap.
Some fics include 'Character|Ship- mentioned' or 'Ship- Background' which I think should be a proper tagging system rather than an optional one.
Noooo :(, i thought there were no limits sadge
If you choose to view entire work you can find how many times both of the ship's characters names is said and compare that to how many times it would show up if it was the focus, it's not exact and relies on estimates and stuff but it can at least sometimes prevent you reading a bunch of stuff that you weren't looking for, specifically look for both characters names because that decreases the likelihood that one of the characters is like a main side character with no focus on their relationship and if both are mentioned a bunch then it's more likely to be at least sorta focused on them, hope this helps
omg your reference to TGCF was so great
I am so in love with the MDZS fandom and I am FURIOUS that some people's first impressions of this series was STWW.
As a member of the mdzs fandom I think I can speak for most of us:
we don’t know whether to laugh or cry