AITA for ‘outing’ someone for writing inc*st?I (20F) am in a moderately large fandom that got popular during the pandemic. Most of the fic for this fandom is gen and platonic pairings, which is a rarity and fantastic. One of the most popular creators in the fandom puts out a ton of gen fics that I really loved. Unfortunately, I learned after that they write fics on a different account, and not just any fics, but inc*st. I’m not talking about found family. These characters are literal brothers in canon. I can’t believe anyone would ship them together, much less this person. I unfollowed them and now, whenever I see anyone talking about how much they love this creator, I inform them about the alt account and their ships. Ignorance may be bliss, but I felt awful when I found out and realized I’d been supporting them for so long and I don’t want anyone else to feel that way. But someone replied to one of my comments calling me the asshole, telling me I was outing the creator, and to mind my own business. AITA?
Everyone, if you voted nta, you should go delete your ao3 account ASAP or the icky incest cooties will get ya!!!
ALT
She’s also a Thorki shipper, among other problematique things.
AO3 was founded by grown-ass adults who wanted somewhere to host controversial works that were deleted on other platforms. Now that the site is popular, the puritywankers keep trying to take it over and crying that it is fulfilling its intended purpose.
“Were you supposed to find it on this AITA post?”
No, you were supposed to Google for “origins of AO3” or something like that, and wind up on the Fanlore page about the post that kicked it off:
Then you could notice it was from Astolat, check out her Fanlore page, which has a link to her AO3 where she has more than 500 works, and look at her most common relationships:
Let’s see: RPF, incest, underage, hero/villain, age gap, boss/employee…
This is your periodic reminder that AO3 was created as a home for fics that kept getting kicked out of other sites. And when it was made, it was understood that some people would refuse to host works at AO3 because it also hosted The Bad Stuff.
If you dislike AO3’s content allowances and you can’t tolerate your fic showing up next to The Bad Stuff in searches, you’re welcome to remove your content and put it elsewhere. Or nowhere. Whatever. But AO3’s content rules are not going to become more restrictive or “less problematic,” no matter how many complaints it gets – AO3 was not created to be a democracy holding to the will of the majority of fandom.
AO3 was created for the outcasts who got called perverts and kicked out of other sites.
ALT
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