FanFiction.Net adult content purge felt across fandom two weeks on
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| Title: | FanFiction.Net adult content purge felt across fandom two weeks on |
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| Date(s): | June 16, 2012 |
| Venue: | online, WikiNews |
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| External Links: | FanFiction.Net adult content purge felt across fandom two weeks on, Archived version |
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FanFiction.Net adult content purge felt across fandom two weeks on is an article at WikiNews. Most of this article was written by Laura Hale and is problematic, see the article's talk page.
The topic is FanFiction.Net's 2012 story purge, the fandoms this purge most affected, some fan's responses, and the impact this had on other fiction archives.
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Two weeks ago, FanFiction.Net purged the site of much of the adult content, surprising many fan fiction readers and writers; leaving several archives on the Internet unprepared for a deluge of new users, problems continuing to this day. FanFiction.Net removed around 62,000 stories after a change allowing writers under the age of eighteen to register.
According to alixe75 on LiveJournal's ffdotnetrants, FanFiction.Net deleted 2,002 Naruto stories, 1,497 Twilight stories, 1,256 Harry Potter stories, 670 Glee stories, 364 Inuyasha stories, 364 Hetalia - Axis Powers stories, 282 Kingdom Hearts, 213 Pokemon stories, 143 Yu-Gi-Oh stories, 127 Dragon Ball Z stories and 47 Doctor Who stories amongst others. rahirah on Dreamwidth provided another statistic, "Approximately 11% of all BtVS [Buffy the Vampire Slayer] stories were zapped. That may not sound like much, but FFnet is big - that comes to thousands of stories." feckless-muse on Dreamwidth reported the purge included banning users. Despite the purge, Alexa reports no drop in traffic to FanFiction.Net.