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AO3 was created deliberately as the place for taboo fanfiction that no one else wanted to host.
It was created in significant part in response to the spontaneous deletion of adult and queer content fanfic on other archives; specifically fanfiction.net and livejoural.com.
I cannot stress this enough. Fanfiction.net and livejoural.com straight up deleted users adult and queer content without warning, backup or recourse.
AO3 was created so that authors could host queer fic, porn, and transgressive adult material without the threat of deletion.
AO3 was created as the place for shipcest and underage fic.
If you want a clean archive with no taboo material, those archives exist. AO3 was created to be their alternative.
Absolutely not. I want everyone to know that despite me using a03 for my fics, I in no way support underage or proship of any nature. I do not care if it is ‘fake.’ Proshippers will not be tolerated.
Why the fuck are you interacting with this proship post about the history of AO3?
lmao! That person’s reply contradicts itself in so many ways. Proshippers created ao3 and flock to ao3, but this person uses ao3. Ao3 has tons of incest and underage fics, so this person is, in fact, ‘supporting’ that by adding to the content of a website full of incest and underage fic. It’s moral performativeism, in the hope nobody will see the glaring contradictions in it, at its finest
‘I do not support this thing, but I’ll continue to give traffic and create media for the website that houses it’
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