Ripping
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Ripper | Ripping coming from the phrase Rest in Peace, the term means burying a work 7 feet away, either out of hatred against its author or the fandom of which it is a part. Ripper/ripping also alludes to the act of hitting with a stick or dividing wood into slats. Which gives more meaning to the term/activity of ripping fanfiction.
Started in the Lusophone/Portuguese milieu, largely attacking slasher and het fans of Harry Potter, Twilight, Percy Jackson, Naruto and others anime fandoms; or more precisely those where young people -- mainly girls -- made up most of this fandom, with that they were seen/considered fannish trash.
Often referred to as remixing or constructive criticism, the effect of ripping is often to humiliate, offend and threaten authors and members of various fandoms. A large part of the activity consists of republishing a work and adding comments in the middle that criticise the writing and content of said work.
Fans who engage in ripping are called ripper/rippers. Rippers often use offensive usernames, with double meanings - sometimes sexual - in order to show themselves as someone funny, rating the activity as a way of teaching spelling to authors. They often join and participate a groups, creating a single profiles where all members has access.
Ripping is generally not considered to be the same as remixing or beta reading, even though some rippers have characterised their activities in this way. For a long time Portuguese-language authors feared "ripper gangs/groups" for their strength in taking pleasure and happiness from fans and for their gratuitous hatred. Some fandom wars and ship wars were the backdrop for various mass rippings.
Due to ripping, many authors even delete their accounts, deprive their work, abandon fandoms or try to block rippers. Others migrated from Portuguese fandoms to other languages such as English or Spanish, in search of greater acceptance and less hatred.
Authors versus Rippers
Many authors only discovered that one of their works was ripped because:
- The ripper clearly informed it to purposefully harm the author;
- Some reader reported publicly or anonymously about the ripping;
- The author discovered by himself through search engines that his work was ripping.
Because it was considered plagiarism by many of the affected authors, ripping can be considered illegal under the laws of some Portuguese-speaking countries, such as Brazil. However, as fanwork laws may not be as clear as what is and is not illegal on issues like this, many authors have felt unsupported and unsupported for a long time.
Many rippers are proud of how they cause discomfort with their activities, even boasting of getting a certain work deleted or an author erasing their accounts. The profiles and biographies of some rippers contain offensive terms against ripped authors and against fans who defend such works, authors and affected fandoms.
Even with all this controversy, many ripping profiles were never deleted by hosting sites or social networks where they are, allegedly because even offending something or someone does not violate their guidelines.
For some years it was speculated that some fights between authors, fans and fandoms against rippers were setups designed to increase the popularity of both parties. But so far there is no evidence that these theories are real or not.
Ripping Decline
Sites like Nyah! Fanfiction prohibit the publication of any texts that are not the author's own, which led to ripping becoming less effective, because when published, these posts would be removed by site admins or after complaints. On the other hand, the same did not occur at FanFiction.Net where there is a higher volume of work published, until the 2013 site update that created features that prevented copying text with 'COPY AND PASTE' commands. The incident led to some rippers complaining about the situation.[1] With this and other measures taken by different fanfic platforms and their increased surveillance led to a decline in this type of activity.
Ripping Examples
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Some Ripping Profiles
- TikasdoTrash[2] Ripping Group at Nyah! Fanfiction | October 26, 2010
- ANBUnda[3] Ripping Group at FanFiction.Net | January 31, 2008
- RIP for You[4] Ripping Group at FanFiction.Net | April 5, 2011
- This is our RIP[5] Ripping Group at FanFiction.Net | November 29, 2012
- Vingadores do Fandom[6] Ripping Group at DeviantArt | June 16, 2007
- Ripagem Queridinhos[7] by Lary Ocean Girl at Wattpad | May 6, 2019
Commentary
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Many fans have over the years written college theses or scientific articles on ripping and other forms of criticism, harassment and interaction within the fandom culture. Below are some examples taken in full from the files and in their original language for better understanding.
[...] o ripador justifica a ripagem de uma fanfiction afirmando que o produtor do texto ripado não preza pela boa literatura.– Pollyanna Zati Ferreira Gonçalves [8]
[...] the ripper justifies ripping a fanfiction by stating that the producer of the ripped text does not value good literature.(Mechanical translation)
Uma das formas de controlar o comportamento dos ficwriters são os próprios textos analisados nesta pesquisa, que criticam ou defendem determinado tipo de fanfic ou elemento narrativo. Outras formas já mencionadas são as agressões vindas dos flamers e a “ripagem” de fanfics. [...] As ofensas, chamadas flames, são comentários curtos, que visam atacar texto e autor. Existe no fandom também o termo flamewar, que se refere a grupos de fãs que brigam entre si por meio dos flames. É importante observar que esse comportamento não se iniciou com o fandom na internet, sendo que anteriormente os fãs brigavam por meio de cartas.– Raquel Yukie Murakami [9]
One of the ways to control the behavior of ficwriters are the texts analyzed in this research, which criticize or defend a certain type of fanfic or narrative element. Other forms already mentioned are the aggressions coming from the flamers and the "ripping" of fanfics. [...] The offenses, called flames, are short comments, aimed at attacking the text and the author. There also exists in fandom the term flamewar, which refers to groups of fans who fight each other through flames. It is important to note that this behavior did not start with internet fandom, as fans previously fought through letters.(Mechanical translation)
References
- ^ "Futuro das ripagens by vingadoresdofandom on DeviantArt" (in português do Brasil). 2013-10-27. Archived from the original on 2022-03-29.
- ^ "TikasdoTrash" (in português do Brasil). 2022-03-29. Archived from the original on 2022-03-29.
- ^ "ANBUnda FanFiction" (in português do Brasil). 2022-03-29. Archived from the original on 2022-03-29.
- ^ "RIP for you FanFiction" (in português do Brasil). 2022-03-29. Archived from the original on 2022-03-29.
- ^ "This is our RIP FanFiction" (in português do Brasil). 2022-03-29. Archived from the original on 2022-03-29.
- ^ "vingadoresdofandom User Profile DeviantArt" (in português do Brasil). 2022-03-29. Archived from the original on 2022-03-29.
- ^ "Ripagem Queridinhos - Aeeee - Wattpad" (in português do Brasil). 2022-03-29. Archived from the original on 2022-03-29.
- ^ "O Funcionamento da Comunidade Discursiva Constituída em torno das Fanfictions" (in português do Brasil). 2022-03-29. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-03-29. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
- ^ "O ficwriter e o campo de escrita contemporânea" (in português do Brasil). 2022-03-29. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-03-29. Retrieved 2021-08-12.