Francesca Coppa

And you see it with the heated rivalry thing.

You know, Rachel Reed and many others, you know, kind of learned their craft in a certain way by hanging out at the AO3.

And she made a really fan fiction-y...

kind of a book.

And now watching the heated rivalry thing is like watching all sorts of people being like, I didn't know I could have these big feelings.

And we're like, oh, we knew.

And then they're like, wow, you mean there's a whole website full of stories that will give me enormous feelings?

And the answer is yes.

Fandom etiquette has been out the window in this fandom.

This is literally like Fandom 100, not even 101, brother.

You need to go back and retake last class.

I mean, certainly, look, in any subculture, in any group, right, people come in and there's a kind of norming process.

I will say I think AO3-ish fans are very good at...

schooling, so to speak, new people who show up about like what we believe and what we don't believe.

It is very funny when people come into the space and, you know, they really misunderstand, for instance, our gift culture.

Just to say this, the AO3 makes no money and nobody involved with it gets paid.

And if they, look, if you don't want to do what we do, there are lots of other places that you can go.

We, you know, we don't,

We're not trying to make money, so it sounds weird to say, like, we don't need you, but you can go be someplace else.

And we are, like, much bigger than Wikipedia.