![]() The Grim Lesson of the Week’s Weirdest Literary ControversyĪt first glance, the concept of printing out fanfiction might seem wild but it makes total sense-fandom is nothing if not committed-and it’s also sparked a discussion among fanfic readers and writers about copyright. Ten Years Ago, Megyn Kelly Decided I Should Be a Fox News Segment. “The Hottest Comic in America” Is Also a Conservative Hack ![]() There’s Something Odd Going On in Bathrooms at Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” Among countless memes and fancasts dedicated to the story, people have even posted clips of themselves printing and binding the entire, 500,000-word fic so they can have their own physical copies. The spinoff hashtag #atydtiktok has 45 million views in and of itself. Few of of them have anything to do with the Mott the Hoople song, although almost every single TikTok that uses that song is about the fanfiction of the same name. Over on TikTok, the #atyd hashtag on TikTok has 704 million views. It has its own TV Tropes page, and there are hundreds of posts in the Tumblr tag, which includes some phenomenal fan art. It has almost 9,000 ratings on GoodReads and a 4.82 star average review score, which a lot of published authors would kill for. People have taken it upon themselves to read it for audiobooks in a practice known as podficcing. There are now YouTube reviews of this fic. And now it now has more than four million hits on Archive of Our Own. Jump to January 2021: By the end of the month, the story had reached just under a million hits. By November 2020, it had just under 300,000 hits. ![]() By mid-2019, it had somewhere around 100,000 hits on Archive of Our Own. Here’s some more numbers: The fic finished publishing in November 2018. All the Young Dudes in particular really had its moment in the second year of the pandemic, starting around the winter. The growing interest in All the Young Dudes of late has this movement of reclamation to thank, but there’s another factor: Fanfiction TikTok.
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