fanfiction got too commodified, and instead of building a community by talking to authors and other readers, or giving feedback, or even mindfully consuming fanmade content, more and more people treat fics like fastfood mindlessly gorging on whatever they find on ao3/other sites
we listen and we don’t judge: fanfiction edition. reply or qrt with your opinions/funny stories.
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not commenting on older works cause "strange" or not commenting at all cause "we don't know each other! it'd be weird!", making the number of likes/kudos the only metric the quality of anything should be measured by
all this was admittedly present to some extent back in the day, but much less egregiously