Top Ten

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See also:	Desert Island
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A fannish favorite is stating one's Top Ten fanworks in a fandom.

Top Ten lists can take all sorts of forms and formats. A fan may list their Top Ten for a certain pairing, fandom, or may combine them; or they might list their Top Ten of All Time, Top Ten of a certain year, or Top Ten in a certain genre/theme, etc.

Sometimes Top Ten lists are generated by a community of fans voting for their faves.

Anime

Amongst the anime community, "Top Ten Anime [subject]" (such as "Top Ten Anime Betrayals" or "Top Ten Anime Fights") has become a meme because of how pervasive such videos were on YouTube, especially by channels like WatchMojo.

Fans also enjoy making Top Ten lists for anime in specific genres, released in specific time periods (such as over the past year or in that season), or just in general their all-time favorites. In some cases, Anitubers may also use Top Ten lists to promote other Anitubers' videos or channels, such as Mathwiz's Ten Anitube Videos I Enjoyed In 2018 video.

Examples

• My Top Ten, one fan's Top Ten list of Erik/Charles fics (date unknown)
• werewolfwagon's top ten, a series of Derek/Stiles Top Ten lists each focusing on a theme or trope (2013-2015)
• TwiFanfictionRecs has kept lists of Top Ten Twilight fics of the month each year since 2012
• theolicitylibrary's Top Ten Writers, list generated by readers of Felicity/Oliver fics (3 May 2014)
• What are your top 10 drarry fanfictions., Drarry list in an answered Tumblr ask by dictacontrion (6 December 2014)
• wendydarlingfic's top ten fanfic couples, a multifandom list by one fan, focused mainly on Hanson, One Direction, The Walking Dead and Harry Potter
• hideinadream's top ten hanfics, a list by Bethany
• PlaceToHide.net's Hall of Fame list, which began as 10 fics per "era" of the fandom but has expanded to 20 and is partially voted on