Someone took screenshots of my fic and are now mocking me for my writing, it’s resulted in hate in my comments and I don’t know what to do. The only reason I found out about this was because someone in the comments posted a link to the twitter account that started it. It’s the first time I’ve ever written a fic, is it normally like this? I feel utterly humiliated and hopeless. Do you have any advice? I just feel like I should delete everything and never interact with fandom again.
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The best way to make them stop is to ignore them or laugh at them… even if that’s not how you feel on the inside.
Joke’s on them: they’re giving you free advertising.
It is actually pretty common, or it used to be. AO3’s culture is not like this for the most part, but the 00s were rife with “sporking” accounts, and there used to be whole communities of twits on FFN who would rip apart fic for being “OOC” when what they actually meant was “gay” and/or “horny”.
It’s a common pastime of the emotionally immature. They especially love inexperienced writers who are easy to cow. Don’t give them the satisfaction.
As for the comments, delete the obnoxious ones. People like seeing their own stupid opinions, and people like joining dogpiles. If their stuff is deleted, it won’t attract as many new people. If you moderate comments, they can’t automatically get the thrill of seeing their nonsense out there.
I personally prefer to archive-lock all my work unless it’s a recent exchange fic or something. That cuts down on drive-by morons.
#flames will be used to roast marshmallows#i’m sorry you’re having to deal with this anon
*cackling*
Anon, if you’re not seeing the tags on this post, more than one person has responded with something like this.
Stupid open trolling of the “Ur fic sucks!!!” variety used to be extremely common to the point where there are all these cliched author’s notes we used to see about it—primarily “Flames will be used to ___”.
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