So, yeah… partly inspired by @elizabethminkel and @flourish of @fansplaining talking about the Year In Fandom in their most recent episode, I maaaaaay have gone kind of bonkers overboard in trying to do a “quick” stats look at what was popular this year. :) A few notes below the cut.
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Reblogging because @fansplaining episode!
carrochan asked:
Hey! :) I don’t have time for a deep dive now, but can I recommend fandomstats.org, where you can get a quick sense of the AO3 fandom? (Use the official AO3 tag: Haikyuu!!)
For instance, a few things that jump out at me – Haikyuu has few crossovers.
For comparison: 1.3% of Sherlock works are also tagged Harry Potter; 1.5% of Naruto works are also tagged Harry Potter; 1% of Game of Thrones works are also tagged Harry Potter… I guess what I’m saying is, I’m a little surprised to see that only 0.2% of Haikyuu works are also tagged Harry Potter, and only 0.6% with the most common crossover, Kuroko no Basuke. But it’s not completely crazy, either; there are plenty of relatively self-contained universes in fandom, like Star Trek and Star Wars. (And, for that matter, only 0.7% of Supernatural works are also tagged Sherlock, which is its most common crossover.)
This fandom is dominated by M/M, but not by any single relationship:
It is also very fluffy! :)
Hope that helps a bit. Feel free to dig in deeper on fandomstats.org and try combinations like “Haikyuu!!, Alternate Universe” – which can reveal some of the most popular AUs in the Freeform Tags section (Soulmates, College/University, Fantasy, Coffee Shops, Canon Divergence):
Inspired by the amazing stats @toastystats has shared with us I decided to analyse the Manga & Anime fandoms on ao3. This post is the first part of a wider research I plan on doing. Enjoy!
On the date of research there was a total of 549070 works published in the Anime & Manga category on ao3, within 2136 different fandoms.
54.9% of the total works in the Anime & Manga category was made by the top 20 fandoms.
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88.1% of the total works in the Anime & Manga category was made by the top 100 fandoms.
The remaining 2036 fandoms made only 21.9% of the total works. 1343 of these had less than 10 works per fandom.
* The data was gathered from ao3 on November 25th, 2017
Awesome – thanks for sharing! looking forward to seeing more in this series. :D
melodioustear asked:
Hello! I'm doing a PhD in mental illness narratives. My research looks at alternative mediums that allow people to better articulate the embodied experience of living with mental illness. Less about displaying a mentally ill person, and more about conveying what it's like to *be* mentally ill. One of the things I'm looking at is transformative works - so I'm trying to find stats on mental illness in fandom, be it on the works themselves or the authors. Do you have any recommendations? Ty! <3
Hey! I don’t know of any relevant stats offhand, but I’ll throw it out to my readers in case they have any suggestions. And good luck with the thesis!!
tears-in-my-tardis asked:
yo! i was wondering if there were any stats for the anime fandom with the most works? i can't find a way to organize it like that on ao3 and i'm trying to find a new fandom to get into but i wanna make sure there's a buncha fics to go with it.
Hey! Here are all the current Anime & Manga fandoms with at least 10K fanworks:
That top one is Boku no Hero Academia, btw. If you can’t read the tiny print/want the complete names, click here. That link also contains a list of all Anime & Manga fandoms with 500+ works – there are 191 such fandoms currently! (Though some of those are subtags/overlap with others.)
Unfortunately, I don’t have an easy way to separate out the manga-only titles from this list (ones that don’t have any anime). But you may be interested in a 2017 analysis I did of popular cartoons & anime. It looks like things have changed a great deal in three years – Boku No Hero Academia has grown by more than 15x and shot up the charts to #1! I was so surprised by the changes that I decided to redo the above visualization, but split up each fandom into works before Oct 2017 and works since then:
All the fandoms have grown since then, but some have REALLY grown! :D JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken has the next biggest increase after BNHA.
Again, you don’t have to squint at this if you don’t wanna – the raw data is available!
Anonymous asked:
Has there been any thought or discussion on how quarintine is effecting how much fanfic is being posted/read and if its an even or uneven spread across ao3? I couldn't find anything but I feel someone must have done something....
Hi! (And sorry if you asked this ages ago – I’ve been incredibly busy the past couple months and am just now seeing some of my asks, oops.)
Short answer – AO3 has been getting a ton of usage lately! To the point where I haven’t wanted to run any of my automated scripts to scrape data, because I don’t want to further tax their servers. But AO3 shared some stats. They have some cool graphs and info about how things like the China AO3 ban factor in – I encourage clicking through and reading the whole thing.
I’ve also revisualized a few of the stats in a different way, to highlight how things changed January-April (their post was made in April, so I don’t have more recent data). Basically, the rate of posting new works (especially new chapters) is going up, and so is the rate of page views and engagement with works. (This doesn’t capture seasonal patterns, though.)
Edit: oops, my last graph got left off! this shows differences over the years (there’s also a more granular graph in the original post) – notice that things have been increasing every year, but there’s a bigger jump from 2019 to 2020 and from January to April than the general trend predicts:
Anonymous asked:
(This is @violsva not bothering to log in) What are the most popular poly ships on AO3? I can't seem to find this with AO3's own interface. Have you or someone else done a study?
No studies of exactly this exist, so far that I know of. But I started some scripts running and I’ll let you know! :)
Anonymous asked:
hi! love your work! Sometime back you posted the wattpad genre analysis with "35% fanfiction" but it was done by random sampling, right? I was wondering, is there a way to see how many works total were posted to wattpad in a certain time period? Same for FFnet too. I saw your numbers till Nov 2018 and I'm wondering how they are comparing a year later now...
Thank you! Great question. The analysis I posted before was indeed based on random sampling. Unfortunately, there’s no easy way I know of to find recent numbers for FFN or Wattpad. We could do random sampling just on more recent fanwork ID numbers (since ID numbers increase roughly chronologically). And then we could estimate new fanworks in the past year based on that sample. Or else we could spend a lot more time and actually fetch data for every single fanwork ID (some of which will return errors).
I don’t have immediate plans to update those stats (I’m in fact still analyzing that sample.) But if you’re interested in using any of my sampling scripts or brainstorming ways to get specific data, LMK. :)
Anonymous asked:
Hey! Thanks for the message and well wishes. :)
I unfortunately don’t have stats on this currently, but it’s an interesting hypothesis! Has anyone else who in the fandom research space looked into monthly engagement?
If it is a function of November, I wonder if it’s mostly because of NaNoWriMo, or also other factors. And I wonder if artists see a change in their engagement during Inktober, or if there are any other parallels…
Let me show you something interesting.
When folks switch from Twitter to Tumblr as their primary social media platform, something they’ll often do in order to fill out their initial Tumblr dashboard is to follow a bunch of blogs whose names they recognise from having seen those blogs’ posts circulated as screenshots on Twitter. Consequently, any Tumblr blog that gets screenshotted on Twitter a lot – like this one – will typically see a jump in new followers any time Twitter does something that pisses people off. It’s usually not a big jump, but it’s definitely noticeable.
With that context, there’s this blog’s new followers graph for the past thirty days:
Hm.
hmm indeed
Whoa.
[ID: Three graphs; they are very similar, showing the last month’s worth of followers in a “daily plot” line graph. All three, belonging to @prokopetz, @cyle, and myself, show a spike in followers between 11/6 and 11/13, mainly on the 9th and 10th from the look of it.]
I don’t think I get screenshotted and cross-posted to other social media, but I also saw a (smaller) spike. I wonder how much is due to Tumblr recommending these active blogs to noobs, rather than people proactively seeking out these blogs…
If you’re doing fandom stats on Tumblr (or on Twitter) during this time frame, this is important to keep in mind.
inspired by this post, I made a graph about how many fics on Ao3 have Postal Service song names in their titles:
![[ID: A bar graph showing the number of fics on Ao3 with Postal Service song names in their titles. The counts are as follows: Sleeping In 650 fics Turn Bround 530 fics Nothing Better 215 fics Such Great Heights 154 fics Be Still My Heart 80 fics We Will Become Silhouettes 15 fics The District Sleeps Alone Tonight 10 fics Brand New Colony 10 fics There's Never Enough Time 9 fics Recycled Air 6 fics A Tattered Line of String 6 fics This Place is a Prison 2 fics Natural Anthem 2 fics Clark Gable 1 fic ]](/post-https-64.media.tumblr.com/14828ce16d63cc007112960b7e3aae63/630d8c833e05d193-de/s500x750/13a3cf3d500146be1233d40dfa262343596a3edc.png)
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