i JUST dicovered that one book was a Reylo fic, i was LOSING MY MIND cause I've seen that book EVERYWHERE! Looking at the cover, its so obvious that its Rey and Kylo fhdgdgah
I heard that in the most recent (fourth???) After movie there’s a joke about the Hot Boy being played in a movie by Harry Styles and I think that was the moment when I thought “Oh shit it’s becoming self-referential that it’s fanfic, the circle has truly closed.”
10:21 Thaaaaat's what gets me is that a lot of these fanfic to published books are poorly written, a plot that doesn't make sense, and if we look at....Romantasy (SJM, Fourth Wing, etc) it's even worse when looking at world-building and etc. (idk if things by SJM or Fourth Wing were fanfic but I wouldn't be surprised because IMO they read just like bad fanfiction). And yet they're so popular. I don't get it. (I should be happy people are reading. But I wish they'd read like anything else).
I have unintentionally bought rylo fanfiction and by proxy Adam driver fanfiction and not realizing it until halfway through. I've also coincidentally bought bts fanfiction. And from my knowledge, they are all "original" ideas and not posted on AO3 first. They definitely read like fanfics
The BTS fanfic is called Once Upon a KProm. You realize it halfway through when the Arthur mentions real kdramas groups but not BTS and then in the acknowledgements mentions RM and BTS alot
Amazing video! I love that you have so much respect for both mediums and emphasise that they serve different purposes. I too am not a fan of how the publishing industry and fanfiction are starting to cross over. Hell, I'm even rejecting the notion that fanfiction should be respected because it's "good practice" for becoming a published author someday. Um... why does fanfiction need to be "practice" for anything? If I'm doodling in the margins of a notebook, am I "practicing" for the day my work gets hung in a gallery or sold at auction? Fanfiction is something that deserves to be done for its own sake. If it just so happens to be a part of an author's writing journey, cool, but I'm incredibly wary of treating fanfiction as a deliberate means to professional writing.
Really good video, Randy! I wonder when the Stormpilot fandom will get their opportunity to dominate the best sellers list. As an aside is that as much as I'm happy for authors to break out, I shall forever be disappointed at certain members of the Reylo fandom's horrible treatment of John Boyega.
Sent rhis to my girlfriend, she loved the video. Feel like im on the ground floor of the next big youtuber. Not a personal fan of this type of vid, but good quality video!!! :) just wanna say im one of the first subs. BAKA 🤩🤩🤩🤩 im charlie
I dont know why you are the way you are charlie. Either way, he did put me on to a groundbreaking hit, mama loves her fanfics. Almost as much as her commentary videos 10/10
I'm just here to say one of the best fanfics I've ever read also has some of the best prose I've read, and that's Resmiranda's Inuyasha fanction: Tales from the House of the Moon. It honestly blows Fourth Wing out of the water, and I'm really at a loss for why these books are so popular when the writing is worse than a lot of fics I've stumbled across online. I feel at this point I'd rather read books with no sex in them, and then later if I'm feeling spicy, look up some one-shots for it on A03 lmao.
old video by now BUT the 'why are a lot of these books published reylo fanfics' i think can stem from something i learned while watching a withcindy video on an author who was racefaking (long story). turns out a lot, and i mean a Lot, of these recentish authors who are taking booktok by storm are apart of old reylo fanfic discord servers and groups. they talk about knowing each other from old twitter group dms and such. they all started by beta-ing each others fics and gathered a community who would then help each other market their book concepts + edit and give critique pretty regularly. theres a big "in" group where they come up with hashtags and get each other in with agents
I'm sure fan fiction can be a valid means of expression but y'all aren't trying to defend tijuana bibles by that logic. I hope more people just graduate to writing straight up fiction 'cause that argument doesn't hold up all the time.
