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Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2025: Week 11
I Am Groot is a Guardians of the Galaxy fan fic by sherlocksmyth that went viral. It is 1,308 words long, told entirely from Groot's POV, and "EXTREMELY NSFW" according to the author. However, it consists only of the phrase, "I am Groot," the only words Groot is able to say.
Within two weeks of posting, the fic accumulated over 11,000 kudos on the AO3, making it the second-most kudosed fic on the site (behind only the Teen Wolf fic DILF). Before the month was out it had dethroned DILF as the most-kudosed fic on the archive. It had over 70k kudos in Jan 2019, 91k in Feb 2021, and 128k in Nov 2022.
It remained the work with the most kudos on Archive of Our Own until January 2023, when it was dethroned by the Harry Potter fic All The Young Dudes. However as a joke fic, some view I Am Groot as an outlier and discount it when discussing works with the most kudos on Ao3.