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.
For the teal deers: Those nasty writers writing fucked-up ode fics to all five of the major archive warnings plus incest and glorifying it already did go somewhere else way back in late 2009. If you don’t like it then you go somewhere else.
One of the founders of AO3 is literally an incest writer lmao, like AO3 was always By The Freaks, For The Freaks (and yes that includes all queer content because at the time that was ALL considered Freak Shit even if it was totally innocent and just holding hands and stuff)
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