Ao3 for love of magic12/2/2023 When I looked at the average word counts for the different categories (Fig 5), the graph looked suspiciously similar to the hits/kudos. In the past I found that longer fanfic gets more hits. However, it occurred to me this time around to wonder about word count. (Note: “Not rated” is on the left hand side of the graph, but is not the least explicit category.) However, when we look at the hits and kudos graphs (which show very similar patterns, as they did in my previous analysis), we see that Explicit fanworks get more attention than all the rest, and in general, the higher the rating, the more hits & kudos. The most popular fanworks to produce are General Audiences and Teen And Up Audiences. Because these are mutually exclusive categories, I also displayed this data as a pie chart in Figure 2, showing the percentages of AO3 fanworks that have each rating. Figure 1 shows the number of fanworks produced in each rating category. Because of the problems with the median kudos/median hits metric (and its inconclusiveness), I omitted that metric this time around. I used the same methods as in my previous post on popularity metrics, relationship categories, and fandoms. I’ll need to reevaluate my previous post about categories and popularity in light of the word count effect.When you control for word count, there remains a smaller effect of rating – in particular, fanworks rated "Explicit" get far more hits on average than others.This is partly a side effect of the average word count in these categories I’ve written before about how longer fanfic gets more hits, and we can see from the above graphs that the more explicit the fanwork, the higher the average word count, as well.In general, the higher the rating, the more hits and kudos a work gets. The most popular fanworks to read are Explicit.The most popular fanworks to produce are General Audiences and Teen And Up Audiences.POPULARITY, WORD COUNT, AND RATINGS ON AO3.
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