TOP 5 FANDOMS ON AO3 BASED ON NUMBER OF FANWORKS (2009-2022)
- To make these bar chart race, all series titles in the All Fandoms page on November 29 (or the closest date to it) of every year were copy-pasted from Wayback Machine to Google Sheets, rearranged according to number of fanworks, and then inputted to Flourish to turn into a bar chart race.
- Locked fanworks aren't included in the count because Wayback Machine can’t view those, only Ao3 users can.
- Jossverse was in the top 5 from 2010-2011 (2nd place in 2010 and 3rd in 2011). A lot of fandoms in its subtags contributed to these numbers, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel: the Series, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Firefly, Serenity (2005) and Dollhouse. In 2018, it was removed from the TV Show fandom list and lost its subtags. Works tagged with it show up in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV) instead, so I’ve excluded it from the bar chart.
- Marvel (Movies) was used in the Movies category in 2011-2016 and ranked in the top 5 from 2011-2016. lot of fandoms in its subtags contributed to these numbers, such as the MCU movies and the X-men movies. In 2017, it was removed from the Movies fandom list and lost its subtags. Works tagged with it showed up in Marvel instead, so Marvel (Movies) was left out of the bar chart. Its data in 2012 was used for Marvel in this bar chart since its numbers were higher than Marvel in that year.
- Please refer to this post for more bar chart races.
- Thanks for understanding and hopefully I didn’t mess up anywhere! 🙏
I checked my Excel file for the TV Shows & Movies categories, and the Star Trek tag didn't exist back in 2009 (At least not on Dec. 3-21 anyway). All the Star Trek fandom tags back then only had separate fandom tags (such as Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek (2009)).
If you add up all those fanworks, perhaps the Star Trek tag could've made it in the top 5. Unfortunately, I can't just add up all of the Star Trek tags, since some of them are could be fanworks that listed more than one Star Trek tag.
For reference though, when I add up the Star Trek tags in the TV Shows & Movies categories in 2009, the result is 829 fanworks. (Didn't check if there were Star Trek tags in other categories too though, haha)
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Also quick question: why isn't k-pop RPF?
Hi! I'm not sure. I can only presume it might be because Music & Bands is already a enough category on its own that anything under it is already understood as RPF.