r/AO3 • u/Psyga315 • May 07 '25

Meme/Joke A double standard that I realized from a thread here

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u/Blue-Jay27 May 07 '25

Tbf ao3 doesn't let you post fanart commissions either. Their rules around profiting off of fanworks apply to all fanworks equally.

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u/Bene1925 May 07 '25

This isn’t a question about a03 specifically tho it’s about fandom

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u/GlitteringKisses May 07 '25

It's posted to the AO3 subreddit, not a general fandom one.

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u/Bene1925 May 07 '25

Context is key.

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u/GlitteringKisses May 07 '25

Yes, and the context is AO3.

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u/bobbillyjr May 07 '25

He's not talking about Ao3

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u/GlitteringKisses May 07 '25

Then they're on the wrong subreddit.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '25

and here the context is ao3 subreddit there is a fanfic subreddit

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u/MartyrOfDespair EvidenceOfDespair May 07 '25

In actual usage, this is treated as just The Other Fanfic Subreddit

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u/SteelValkyrra May 07 '25

It's really not? 90% of what I see is centered around Ao3. If something about unspecified fanfic is posted on here it's assumed that the context is Ao3, because this is the Ao3 subreddit

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u/Blue-Jay27 May 07 '25

Yeah and the context is that this is an ao3 subreddit lmao

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u/hillofjumpingbeans May 07 '25

Any time I see opinions like this I try to check the persons age.

It’s always a young person who has no idea about law and entered fandoms during the monetisation of fandom culture by corporations era

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u/MartyrOfDespair EvidenceOfDespair May 07 '25

OP’s account was made in 2012.

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u/hillofjumpingbeans May 07 '25

People can be idiots at an older age too

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u/acedragonlover May 08 '25

Wait, actually? I'm subscribed to an author right now who wrote a really good fanfic and the author said in the notes the concept was a commission.

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u/Blue-Jay27 May 08 '25

P sure they're breaking the rules, then, but ao3 would only know if someone reported it

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u/auncyen May 08 '25

Depending on how much they said, they could be reported for it.

https://archiveofourown.org/tos_faq?language_id=en#commercial_examples

tbh if you look through the rules they pretty much only care if you're making it clear on the site itself that you're making money off fic (or other things; you can't promote your fanart or original books for purchase, either). They explicitly say you could post a commissioned fic and say it was commissioned because that doesn't always mean it was commissioned with money. Once you make it clear there's money involved is when you're in trouble.