This kind of thing is easily answered with the works search. It’s only annoying if you want a bunch of different data for a chart. Currently, the works with >1000 comments number:
17,026
On a different note, IDK a good way to see a list of fandoms from works search, but if you go to a huge tag like m/m, you can put in a comments range and still get the sidebars. Out of m/m fic on AO3, the ones with >100 comments show:
Harry Potter – J. K. Rowling (10841)
방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS (10022)
Marvel Cinematic Universe (8870)
僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga) (8836)
So about what you’d expect, really. Big, big fandoms and ones that have been active while AO3 has been popular. No doubt if I repeated this for some other category or rating or other big tag, you’d get a similar story: big-ass, currently-active fandoms. Searching for >1000 comments instead of >100 gets similar results, just with fandoms reordered slightly.
not queued#Fandom#AO3#(I found it interesting that Genshin didn’t make it to this list)#(Attack on Titan is the lowest fandom here. while having like a little more than half of Genshin’s total work count)#((85k-ish for AoT and 164k-ish for Genshin))#(And surprisingly to me. the total works in Genshin matching this criteria (M/M with >100 comments) is only at 1940)#(I found that quite interesting. that a fandom almost double AoT’s size in works was juuuuust a little behind it here)#(So I got more curious and also checked what was the total work count for some of the fandoms that were ranking higher than AoT)#(Surprisingly. some of them have less total works than AoT?)#(I find it quite interesting that fandom size here is not necessarily proportionate to how many works get high comment counts)#(There is probably fandom-specific factors that made some of these get so high)#(Also interestingly: I noticed none of these are Video Game fandoms?)#(But that would probably be like… A more complicated type of discussion. “How much does media type play a part in this?”)#(Or even “Why Video Games Specifically?”)
I don’t think this is really all that complicated.
Video game fandoms don’t tend to be as popular on AO3 as some media types. Genshin is massively larger than the other big ones unless we’re counting RPF of those Minecraft guys or the metatag for a whole game franchise that people write single-game fic for. There are big ones, but they’re in the 30-50k works range, not the 80-100k one.
More importantly, video game fandoms tend to be unbelievably wanky.
Most high comment counts are going to be when people are willing to admit what they ship in a positive way and support other fans in their fandom, not just call each other “pedos” in dumb slapfights on twitter.
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