Why Are Fanfictions Hated ?.

[beast_regards]

Because the Royal Road couldn't sell the fan-fictions.

 

[Assurbanipal_II]

I found the difference in quality to be negligible. It is probably more due to the fact that people writing fanfics usually start there with their craft, but otherwise I was not able to discern much of a difference.

 

[Corty]

I'd say a lot of the disdain for fanfiction comes solely from the fact that it's always been a stereotypically feminine medium and people like to look down on the hobbies of women and girls

 

[Alski]

I'd say a lot of the disdain for fanfiction comes solely from the fact that it's always been a stereotypically feminine medium and people like to look down on the hobbies of women and girls .

Who poisoned your brain with this?

 

[Deleted member 41774]

Hot take: If you have the time to write a fanfic, then you have the time to write an original story instead.

 

[ShrimpShady]

Who poisoned your brain with this?

I ain't wrong. Same reason why it was cool to shit on One Direction back in the day

Teenage girls have always been the most oppressed group

 

[RepresentingGluttony]

1. Fanfictions aren't hated by readers. They are some of the most popular webnovels.
2. People are clamoring for more of the most popular intelectual properties and want to spend more time in those worlds.
3. Fanfictions are sometimes hated by writer's of original fiction because of jealousy. Not of the fanfiction itself, but of the work that inspired the fanfiction. They should be writing fanfictions of our books darnit!
4. My problem with writing fanfiction, for myself, is that I'd just be building someone else's castle for them to do with as they wish.
5. My problem with reading fanfiction, for myself, is that I'd rather just go to the source.

 

[Corty]

I ain't wrong. Same reason why it was cool to shit on One Direction back in the day

Teenage girls have always been the most oppressed group

 

[AmbreaTaddy]

I used to read fanfictions around 2007-2008 when i did have the means of watching animes,they where fun and by the time i started watching animes seriously as an otaku i already got spoilers from fanfictions,but nowdays people don't like them.

If the fanfiction is well written, I don't see the difference

I vividly remember a story I read on whatpad something like 10/15 years ago, it was a fanfiction about the band One Direction. I didn't care for the band, but the story was so well written that at one point I completly forgot it was a fanfiction, and enjoyed the tale of self discovery, the angst, the romance, the action... Now, all those years ago, I still remember it, and I wonder what it became, because it was such a good story.

 

[Alski]

I ain't wrong.

You are the only person ive seen in 20+ years of being around fanfictions who thinks like that.

 

[laumy]

If the fanfiction is well written, I don't see the difference

I vividly remember a story I read on whatpad something like 10/15 years ago, it was a fanfiction about the band One Direction. I didn't care for the band, but the story was so well written that at one point I completly forgot it was a fanfiction, and enjoyed the tale of self discovery, the angst, the romance, the action... Now, all those years ago, I still remember it, and I wonder what it became, because it was such a good story.

This is unnecessarily funny after @ShrimpShady 's comment

 

[AmbreaTaddy]

This is unnecessarily funny after @ShrimpShady 's comment

I didn't even read it, I didn't notice there was a second page, I laughed a lot after realizing it XD

 

[laumy]

I didn't even read it, I didn't notice there was a second page, I laughed a lot after realizing it XD

Yeah lol, and you're absolutely right. There are so many unbelievably good fanfictions out there (that it's crazy they're just fanfictions).

 

[Tempokai]

Fanfiction isn't hated nor loved. It just is. Fanfiction exists because there's certain itch in the fans who NEED it. It doesn't need to be good or bad—it just needs to be. That's the reality you've missed.

 

[ShrimpShady]

Hot take: If you have the time to write a fanfic, then you have the time to write an original story instead.

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I don't think most people who write fanfiction do so because they can't write original stories. They just want to, you know. Completely different aims, goals, and appeals between the two story types.

 

[AmbreaTaddy]

If the fanfiction is well written, I don't see the difference

I vividly remember a story I read on whatpad something like 10/15 years ago, it was a fanfiction about the band One Direction. I didn't care for the band, but the story was so well written that at one point I completly forgot it was a fanfiction, and enjoyed the tale of self discovery, the angst, the romance, the action... Now, all those years ago, I still remember it, and I wonder what it became, because it was such a good story.

I found it !
It apparently was self published at one point, then pulled out of the Internet (probably because copyright ?) and now cannot be find anywhere except on archive websites, or on whatpad in the french translation (french W for this one)

(Name : Confessions of a Gay Disney Prince)

 

[Bartun]

Let it be, let it beeee

 

[gaylolis]

because it kills their favorite character or they hate the ship

 

[bulmabriefs144]

1. Fanfictions aren't hated by readers. They are some of the most popular webnovels.
2. People are clamoring for more of the most popular intelectual properties and want to spend more time in those worlds.
3. Fanfictions are sometimes hated by writer's of original fiction because of jealousy. Not of the fanfiction itself, but of the work that inspired the fanfiction. They should be writing fanfictions of our books darnit!
4. My problem with writing fanfiction, for myself, is that I'd just be building someone else's castle for them to do with as they wish.
5. My problem with reading fanfiction, for myself, is that I'd rather just go to the source.

Why I said what I said. Fanfiction isn't hated by readers. They gobble that stuff up. It's hated by writers. Writers look at not only fanfiction but also copycat manga or novels (yes, we can tell if your book is inspired by the popularity of Solo Leveling), and get annoyed as they watch their book get buried. I am proud that my book is in the top 10 for Druids, I guess.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I'd say a lot of the disdain for fanfiction comes solely from the fact that it's always been a stereotypically feminine medium and people like to look down on the hobbies of women and girls . I've read good fanfics and I've read some dogshit ones, same with original stories. A lot of the criticisms levied against fanfictions also apply to a fuckton of original ones.

I don't think it is stereotypically ANYTHING.
Many writers start out with fan fiction - heck, two of the stories in Night Shift by Stephen King were fan fiction, one of Robert Bloch (primarily his "Notebook Found in an Abandoned House") and the other of H. P. Lovecraft (even down to mirroring HPL's style) both stories part of the genesis of the arguably epic Dracula fan fiction novel (King does mirror a lot of beats in Stoker's novel), Salem's Lot. I'd have to track down and re-read my copy to remember which was which, but one had the title "Jerusalem's Lot."
It may have become female dominated in the last few decades (especially with the success of 50 Shades of Gray which the author admits began as: "What if the characters in Twilight met as young adult professionals, and the 'vampire' gained power not through consuming blood but through S&M"), but in most cases it has been more the "training wheels" genre, the area where people who might be able to write start in - and some never leave it (whether they can write or not).

Actually, bringing boy bands like One Direction into the mix may be more relevant than bringing gender politics - because, like boy bands, fan fiction does not HAVE to be good to be popular, it just has to look or feel right. So many dismiss both out of hand because they frequently will succeed, whether any good or not.