Quotev

Website
Name:	Quotev (originally "Quizazz")
Owner/Maintainer:
Dates:	domain name was registered on February 3, 2012 by Enom, Inc.
Type:	user-generated content, quizzes, fanfiction
Fandom:	general
URL:	www.quotev.com a screenshot of the homepage (October 25, 2015)
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Quotev is a for-profit quiz site marketed to teens.

A similar site was Quizilla.

Its Beginning

The site itself gives the date 2008 as its creation. . This was under its original name, "Quizazz". It appears it began on Facebook, or had a Facebook gateway.

In 2012, the site's name changed to "Quotev.

About

From the site in 2024:

Quotev is a creative platform for quizzes, stories, surveys, and polls, which was founded in 2008.

Publish your own works, share them with others, add works to your library to get updates, and follow other authors or readers. Discuss works with others, share and comment on updates with your followers in activity posts or journal entries, and communicate in messages or groups.

Terms of Service and Copyright

• Terms of Service (2015)
• Terms of Service; archive link (accessed 2024)
• Copyright, DMCA, ^{Archived version} (accessed 2024)
• Guidelines; archive link (accessed 2024)
• Privacy Policy; archive link (accessed 2024)
• About; archive link (accessed 2024)

Definitely for the Young

The site has a minimum age requirement of 13, but that clearly was mostly a suggestion to may users. A small 2024 poll shows most users were 12 and under.

Popular Fandoms

Fan Fiction is listed on the home page as one of the major Story categories. As of November 2015, the Fan Fiction page displays popular tags that include the following fandoms:

Anime/Manga, One Direction, Original Fiction, Justin Bieber, Harry Potter, Naruto, Hetalia, Twilight, Creepypasta, Black Veil Brides, Homestuck, Supernatural, 5 Seconds of Summer, Bleach, Doctor Who, The Walking Dead

Other tags include variations on the names of One Direction members, as well as genre tags like Reader, Romance, Fantasy, Adventure, Vampire, Action, Horror, Realistic, and Mystery.

Quotev's Owner and Admins

The name of Quotev's "owner" is always redacted , but the name "Bill Havre" can be seen in a 2017 address change in Wyoming . It is likely that this is a "registered agent" and a placeholder for someone/s who do not want to be identified.

Admins are users who are selected by an unknown process. Currently it is known that there is a corporate ladder of admins; the owner is at the top, and at the bottom are users who report to others higher up.

Admins: Non-Responsive, Unengaged, Run by Bots

As of 2016 (perhaps earlier), the site's admins were always mostly non-responsive. :

The site is rumored to now be run by bots.

From a 2019 discussion:

[deleted]: Wake the fuck up Q. Good evening. The Quotev admins have abandoned us, leaving us with a broken banning system that helps those who abuse it. Gangs of “Clown” and “Carrot” deleters roan the site, getting rid of whoever they feel like. If the higher ups won’t help us, then we must bring back order ourselves. Are you with me?

From a 2020 discussion:

[RawWildBerry]:

How can Quotev still thrive but have lack of interaction by admins? I really never understood how Quotev, a site that's pretty popular in some standards can thrive as well as this but there's like no interest by the admins to help and interact with the place. It is a bit strange and I really don't get how this place is still running, I mean all I see is a site that has people interested and do roleplay but still amazes me how this is still alive. Also will the admins ever come out to reveal things about why they do what they do or is this not gonna change? It's a bit fishy in my opinion and sort of makes me wonder if anything drastic will happen.

[cornchipjpg]: I completely understand! I don’t know what the admins are doing? I think they might be ethereal beings that are trying to hide their true identities. Or just don’t care? Idk.

[KurnaKovite]: Likely because the site doesn't have an overwhelming problem that makes it hard to navigate. Quotev is one of the few sites out there that allows you to make decent quizzes which is what draws everybody in, and with an easy to navigate interface, it's fairly easy to create content and interact with other people. When admins don't talk with the users, the problem that usually arises is where there's a HUGE issue with how things are run and how things are working, but Quotev never really had that. Sites like reddit or twitter or tumblr are more complicated because of how they're set up, but Quotev is pretty user-friendly which draws people in without giving them much of a reason to leave. Though I do hope that one day, we learn about how the admins run things haha

[deleted]: i think it's thriving because of the community it has built and the quizzes and stories there and stuff. i guess you could think of it as youtube, where you don't have alot of limitations on what you can upload (the old youtube, i mean) and people enjoy watching videos (in Q's case, reading and taking quizzes) and the admin's are people like How To Basic and, as you said, either they simply dont care, or are trying to hide their identit(y/ies). Although, there are updates, so maybe it's the latter? other than that, i have no idea.

[RawWildBerry]: I really hope we get answers, having the site be robotic is a bit unnerving even though one of my dreams when technology gets advanced enough is to merge with machine, I'm a technopathic person but this isn't where that form of empathy will focus on because there's not really anything I'm showing care for directly.

From a 2024 discussion:

[Robyn_Mizore]: I don’t think anyone has heard from the admins since like.. 2016-2017? I don’t think the admins care about their users anymore at this point.

[AsleepPersonality440]: I don’t use Quotev anymore but when I was using Quotev when I was a teen, they would never respond to you. So you probably won’t get a response.

The Name Change: Quizazz to Quotev

[Remarkable-Ad-4803]: I don't remember why it changed I just remember EVERY story I was reading at that time including a freakout over the changing name.

[itscarus]: Not sure why the change in name, but I know it happened a LONG time ago. I’ve been a user since 2012 (I’m actively looking for an alternative similar for roleplay purposes) and remember it happened a few years after I joined. I think that’s about when it became common to just call the website “Q” among users because the transition was hard for a lot of us pre-Quotev users.

The Great Quotev Migration to Plerb

[vegetablehead9880]:

I remember when something happened on Quotev that made people upset and a lot of Quotev users migrated to Plerb. The Plerb users were not pleased as far as I remember 😭

Can someone confirm this memory? Does anyone remember the Great Quotev Migration to Plerb? I can’t find the actual website online whatsoever. All I’m scrounging up are little remnants, such as the Plerb logo.

[KurnaKovite]: i do remember it lmao, I think it was after the big layout update to Q which ppl HATED

[vegetablehead9880]: oh my goodness, i remember it now! i knew it had happened but i couldn’t remember what the reason was. people were unhinged with their hatred of the layout 😭 i just came back to quotev last night and it STILL looks the same as how i remember it? i’m pretty sure the q-team reversed the changes after all the backlash.

Random Banning and Content Run Amok

2021

[steamypans]:

You can't own a site filled with mostly children and expect it to run fine without mods i wld like to talk about again how the site does not monitor anythign aside from porn links and we have to make callouts to get their attention

but because we had to make so many because it's a public site and there will be some weirdoes, instead of upping their security and monitoring they just banned people making the callouts

quotev has so many callouts purely because instead of "oh they can't look at every account" they don't look at ANY so we have to make callouts if twitter functioned the same way they would have way more fucking callouts. Callouts on twitter are mostly just hey watch out this guy sucks HERE however it's us like hey!!! hey q mods!! do your job please!!! racists and pedophiles will be on here for ever unless smwn makes a callout

up until the system mass deletion there was only a handful of unfair deletions because thats what happens when you basically give a site filled with mostly minors the power to decide who does/doesn't get deleted essentially

[Maybe SecretlySatan]: I dont think quotev has the man power to handle these reports, one time the site was down their response was "the person who does this isn't here rn give us a moment"

There is one actual problem i have with quotev and its their lack of enforcement. Under their own guidelines we are not allowed to write stories/RP sex, back when i was active with my friends we would sometimes stumble apon rape/abuse/incest/pedophile/statutory RP, so we'd report it, barely ever worked.

The only way to make quotev notice was to mass report, but you'd be suspended for reporting more than once so we had to gain attention on the feed and sometimes even that didn't work.

This was a really long time ago, but i doubt anything has changed.

2024

[Even-Consequence-203]:

I found out recently the site seems to be randomly banning people left and right for no reason in larger numbers these days so I agree it's probably best to stay away from Quotev for the time being because the whole system is high as a kite as of late-

[Robyn_Mizore]: Yeah if you look up the reviews on quotev it’s an ongoing issue. People’s main complaint is they’ll ban people for no reason but allow r*cists, p3dos etc to roam free and openly break site rules

[Even-Consequence-203]: Literally like Honestly I thought the 2015-early 2017 era of Quotev was bad but this is just straight up insane

The Big Bad Update:

On May 31st, 2024, most Quotevians closed the site and went to bed expecting nothing, only to wake up the next morning to find their beloved haven had become a dystopian realm.

The devs decided to make users unable to post new topics/messages in their groups and create new groups, removed the following feed, the chatbox and groups and the direct messaging tab had messages promising that you'd lose the ability to DM and your existing messages on July 1st.

Response

Several theories, including a person who made a threat towards the US president being the cause, circulated, but according to an admin news message, disproved this. Though protests, strikes and petitions started, they made good on that promise and messages and groups were deleted.

(It's worth noting that they did allow people the option to download their messages, unlike in May 2024 when Wattpad removed direct messages). Many users added δ (the Greek letter D) to their Display Names (DNs) as a signal of death to the Q admins.

After it, a now-deleted Wixsite called Aether (aetherspace.wixsite.com/aether) was made that had following, messages (if I remember right) and groups. It went offline around a week or two after being used due to the revelation that Wix is a Pro-Israel company.

An on hold and will probably never be released website called Luneris was announced and a Discord server for updates and whatnot was made, but it hasn't been posted to in a hot minute.

Migration

In my friend group, the most of us repurposed existing Pinterest, Wattpad and Discord accounts or created new ones. I myself created migratory accounts of the three and then put myself on the wait-list for an AO3 account. After a bit, I was able to create my account and have been obsessed with AO3 ever since. (It's just what we do in the fandom; when it all goes bad, we migrate to AO3. Fanfic.net explicit fic purge? A flock of users moved to AO3. Tumblr explicit fic purge? Where did all those authors go? Haha, you guessed it, AO3. I still use Q, as I have friends and readers on there and it's much more user friendly than Discord.

Fan Comments

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Quotev is actually a really good story site. I like it equally as much as ao3.

psychologists interested in studying the effects of the social cognitive theory in the wild would do well to make quotev accounts to observe the social hierarchy

2015

Quizilla was the bomb circa 2008 and you can’t forget Quotev.

I had to live with Quotev until I met ao3…… God rest my pre teen soul

Quotev where it’s a tossup between “why aren’t you a writer?” and “WHAT LANGUAGE ARE YOU TRYING TO SPEAK!?”

2021

[Mayilane]:

[What stuff introduced me to Quotev] was early 2000's boy bands and Adventure choice quizzes 😂 (Which usually included the 'who would fall for you' trope.)

Preteen me ate this up back in the day lol

Yeah, I'm super grateful for Quotev; it's been place of solace for me throughout the years.

[Yasmine0224]: I'm not sure which fandom it was (probably My Hero Academia though), but my first memories of Quotev were of taking those "who's your [insert fandom] Boyfriend" quizzes 💀 Middle-school me really believed that a fictional anime character and I were soulmates 😂

[RamBiologist]: Percy Jackson roleplay lmao

LIKE YOUNG ME AT THE SHIT UP and like the roleplay group i was in legit raised me better than my parents and taught me a lot about how to actually roleplay properly and be a better person

2024

I began taking Quotev “seriously” in 2016, but I had interacted with the site as early as a year prior. Before 2016, I primarily just used it for reading and taking quizzes. The group feature introduced me to roleplaying and OCs, something I’m so happy I got into. I eventually found a group that catered to a MMORPG I was playing at the time and made friends that I still keep in touch with to this day! It’s crazy to think that we’ll all have known each other for a full decade in just two years! I was just a little kid at the time and now I’m in my second Spring semester of college.

Back to my comment about taking quotev “seriously,” however—I don’t see very many people mention this, but it was definitely a thing: at one point, Quotev was like a mini Twitter. Some people were on there for reading and roleplaying, but if you followed enough people or at least the “right” people, it had a feel akin to Twitter on the activity page. There were folks with 12,000 followers who could get up to 200 hearts on a singular post/activity update.

I’m not sure if Quotev still has enough users to support that kind of social media-esque environment, but it probably isn’t a desert wasteland with tumbleweeds riding by either lol. I definitely don’t follow those “right” people anymore, as all the people who were Q-famous (as we called it) back when I was younger are long gone and/or very inactive now. Curating a fast-paced, interesting activity page is harder on Q than Twitter because theres no recommendations based on who you already follow system. You kind of have to just know a person who knows a person who knows another person. It’s time consuming and I don’t see myself ever doing it again. Q wasn’t created to be used like social media, but you give people an inch and they can definitely take a mile!

On another note, I primarily stopped using Quotev as much as I used to after they removed the group-finding feature, which I noticed they (recently?) brought back. Sometimes I think they tried to kill the site on purpose by removing that feature 😭 I imagine it doesn’t bring in much revenue. At this point, keeping Quotev alive and functioning must be a labor of love for the devs.

[Krowski_Broski]: As I've gotten older and continued writing/posting on Quotev I have seemed to notice my stories reach have slowly lessened as my writing skills have improved and matured. I notice the same thing when I am reading other peoples works, whether that be a fanfic or original fiction, the more professional the writing the less hits and retention it seems to hold.

I wonder if that is due to the fact that most people on Quotev are pre-teens or younger teenagers. Therefore their interest in reading more cultivated works is reduced. Or simply if Quotev readers are more likely looking for a hastily written piece that tick certain criteria. Potentially it is how the algorithm works.

[Syvori]: It feels to me like less and less people are active on Quotev, but it can also depend on the fandom you're writing for and tags you use that can help with reach. I also think a lot of Quotev writers that have matured have moved to AO3 lol

[Echo Shadows]: Writing wise I think people just don’t read on Quotev anymore. Everyone’s mostly talking on the feed or being involved in drama that only exists on the internet, lol. But yeah like the other person said, most of us writers moved to AO3 where people don’t get upset over the simplest things we write about.

I loved the coloured text it made the site unique. I also miss when the backgrounds were actual backgrounds and not just some header like what Facebook profiles have 😭

[skeletonk1ngdom]: Yes I just returned to Quotev after YEARSS of not using it and it was honestly a culture shock. These kids are not the same as we were in 2011 writing emo love stories and shit 🤣

It’s so full of drama now that it’s ridiculous. Only reason I still use it cuz it’s the only place I can post random shit 😂😂😂

I’ve noticed the same thing, and also the fandom when it comes to the writing seems to matter a lot.

The prompts behind the things with the most reach are always the same 5 storylines whether it be fanfiction or original fiction.

The more my writing has improved, the more I notice this. That’s not to hate on anyone’s work, I love reading some of the more amateur writing and watching the young writers learn how to tell a story and grow their skill. It’s sweet.

Also, if you’re in the business of fanfics, I’ve had a ton more interaction on AO3 than Quotev since I’ve switched to a more mature or professional way of writing than Quotev or anything else.

I have a disdain for Wattpad ever since the ads and Fanfic.Net is okay but I don’t have much luck there. I think I mostly stick with Quotev for the nostalgia since I’ve used it for over ten years and because I like the writing interface a lot.

I love the site I hate that it’s become what it is but I guess it’s nice for the new generation of users to have their own little safe place. I miss back in the day when you could literally publish ANYTHING on there. And when they had colored text and different fonts and when it was called Quizazz.

[ThatOneShortieHo]: I used Quotev starting back in like 2013/2014 and I swear to god it was like one of the small "corners" of the internet where there were exclusively pre-teens and no one over the age of 16 used it but like, it was still a fanfic website so I really expected there to be more members here.

If not those who had accounts (hi I had 2), then at least to shitpost about the site because can I just say FUCK some of those rigged quizzes?

You know the ones, if you ever took ANY type of quiz with a "good" and "bad" ending, you KNOW that last question was always "will you favorite and follow? :3" and if you said anything but the most enthusiastic YES then you got instant "bad" ending

Also what was up with the "omg please dont hate me but fav color???" I never understood why that was an annoying question (outside of when THAT was a "freecard" question in a "who would like you?" Quiz)

Additionally Im convinced 80% of the Creepypasta Fandom had at least one account on that site and 60% were roleplayers, and 30% of those were ocrpers (hi its me)

[opgenomen]: I used to frequent the site when I was like 11 and changed my personality every week so I could get my favorite character of the day with those “who would date you” quizzes. I also remember skipping school to waste my life reading everything creepypasta (also on wattpad) guilty as charged lol

I never made any content myself, but young-teen-me would produce actual bangers if I did, I can promise u that (don’t trust me)

[literalbabypenis]: I was a rper too! Though I will admit, creepypasta wasn't a fandom I rped in often, I do miss my days back when I was too young to be doing what I was. (I'm not even the age I was pretending I was to do nsfw rps yet lmao)

At the time I was known as LESBIANKING (Why little me decided that was OK idk why consider I'm a bisexual FEMALE) but I rped bnha with someone n I miss them...

(I told them I died.)