Gun to your head, what would you guess is the fandom for the top fic on AO3? Supernatural? Harry Potter? Boku no Hero Academia? You fool. You absolute rube. Of course it's Minecraft Youtuber RPF, how could you ever think otherwise. On today's episode Chy joins us to talk about Dream/GeorgeNotFound fic Heat Waves, the most popular fic on Archive of Our Own, and what it means for fandom and pop culture at large.
Sources and relevant links for this episode:
- Heat Waves and Helium on AO3
- Heat Waves, Dream SMP and Dream on Fanlore
- DreamNotFound on the Shipping Wiki, making its first appearance on the show, remarkably
- Fanfiction about real people is flourishing by Jay Castello on Polygon
- People are reading so much fanfiction it’s crashing the biggest fanfiction website by Gita Jackson on VICE
- The most read fic on AO3 has now been dethroned, a thread on Reddit
- Glass Animals’ Hottest 100 win: ‘Heat Waves’ and the power of online fandom by Al Newstead on TripleJ
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