destinationtoast:ALTResharing my fansplaining article on the weekend with a couple of the most interesting graphs I generated for the article! I remain flabbergasted by how many of the top ships from 2013 (shown in red above) are still the top ships in 2026. And it’s not that they got huge and then completely stagnated; over 7K Destiel works, or ~6% of that ship, updated within the past year, even though the show ended in 2020. Also updated in the last year: over 10K Drarry works (12% of the ship); 2.6K Sterek works (3% of the ship); 3.4K Johnlock works (4% of the ship). There are plenty of ships with new canon growing faster, but all those old juggernauts are all still generating thousands of new/updated works per year, even if they are well past their heydays. And remember, even though such stats focus a lot on the biggest ships/fandoms/etc., the vast majority of fandoms on AO3 (and therefore the vast majority of ships) are much smaller than any of the above ships and are not generating anywhere close to thousands of works per year:ALTI also really enjoy looking at which tropes/tags are currently popular on the archive – especially when I compare the common freeform tags with the most works vs. those with the most average kudos:ALTI speculate some about why these sets are so different in the article. I also share more graphs about the changes on the archive over the time I’ve been doing fandom stats.There’s a free gift link available during the first week!
Resharing my fansplaining article on the weekend with a couple of the most interesting graphs I generated for the article!
I remain flabbergasted by how many of the top ships from 2013 (shown in red above) are still the top ships in 2026. And it's not that they got huge and then completely stagnated; over 7K Destiel works, or ~6% of that ship, updated within the past year, even though the show ended in 2020. Also updated in the last year: over 10K Drarry works (12% of the ship); 2.6K Sterek works (3% of the ship); 3.4K Johnlock works (4% of the ship). There are plenty of ships with new canon growing faster, but all those old juggernauts are all still generating thousands of new/updated works per year, even if they are well past their heydays.
And remember, even though such stats focus a lot on the biggest ships/fandoms/etc., the vast majority of fandoms on AO3 (and therefore the vast majority of ships) are much smaller than any of the above ships and are not generating anywhere close to thousands of works per year:
I also really enjoy looking at which tropes/tags are currently popular on the archive -- especially when I compare the common freeform tags with the most works vs. those with the most average kudos:
I speculate some about why these sets are so different in the article. I also share more graphs about the changes on the archive over the time I've been doing fandom stats.
There's a free gift link available during the first week!
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