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SWAGDOONS SWEEP (no way they have beaten out /p clownzy/funhouse duo)

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it's been a while since i've done this, but i decided to take a crack at mcyt ao3 stats again :) the fandoms that were involved are Hermitcraft, Traffic SMPs/Life Series, Empires SMP, Dream SMP, and Lifesteal SMP! i also did these stats back in august, so there's some fun comparisons at the end. hope you enjoy the stats under the cut! :D

Hermitcraft

Grian/Scar or Scarian is the most tagged relationship with 1201 out of 13,710 fics being tagged, roughly ~8.8% of all fics. 522 fics have Scarian as their OTP/only contain this relationship

Grian & Scar or Desert Duo is the most tagged platonic relationship with 1059 out of 13,710 fics being tagged, roughly ~7.7% of all fics

Quite interestingly, Hermitcraft has the tags "Fluff" and “Angst” both being tied to be the most tagged additional tag with 2476 out of 13,710 fics being tagged each, roughly ~19% for both tags!

Compared to last time, Grian/Mumbo (Grumbo) and Grian & Mumbo (Waffle Duo) are being significantly beaten out by Scarian and Desert Duo, despite being the most tagged relationship(s) back in August. Grumbo has 831 fics (~6.1%) and Waffle Duo has 861 (~6.2%) fics. Sorry Grian and Mumbo enjoyers! 

Traffic SMPs/Life Series

Grian & Scar or Desert Duo is the most tagged relationship with 971 out of 4,815 fics being tagged, roughly ~20.2% of all fics

Grian/Scar or Scarian is the most tagged romantic relationship with 877 out of 4,815 fics being tagged, roughly ~18.2% of all fics. 364 fics have Scarian as their OTP/only contain this relationship

Scott/Jimmy or Flower Husbands is the second most tagged romantic relationship with 525 out of 4,815 fics being tagged, roughly ~10.9% of all fics. 197 fics have Flower Husbands as their OTP/only contain this relationship

Jimmy/Tango or Team Rancher is the third most tagged romantic relationship with 466 out of 4,815 fics being tagged, roughly ~9.7% of all fics. 161 fics have Team Rancher as their OTP/only contain this relationship. 

Jimmy & Tango or Platonic Team Rancher is the fourth most tagged relationship, 194 out of 2885 fics or ~7% are tagged

also since im biased (yes i am repeating myself from the last post again) and this is my post, 180 out of 4,815 fics or ~3.7% fics are tagged with Bdubs & EthosLab. the % has gone down since last time. sad!

"Angst" is the most tagged additional tag with 1404 out of 2885 fics being tagged, roughly ~29.2% of all fics, making "Traffic SMPs/Life Series" the angstiest fandom on this list!

Empires SMP

Jimmy/Scott or Flower Husbands is the most tagged relationship with 1057 out of 3,860 fics being tagged, roughly ~27.4% of all fics. 395 fics have Flower Husbands as their OTP/only contain this relationship

Joel/Lizzie or Jizzie is the second most tagged relationship with 492 out of 3,860 fics being tagged, roughly ~12.7% of all fics. Congratulations to Jizzie for being the only F/M pairing on this list! 

"Angst" is the most tagged additional tag with 802 out of 3,860 fics being tagged, roughly ~20.8% of all fics

Dream SMP*

*Due to the complicated matter of Dream SMP tagging, I will be including statistics from the fandoms "Dream SMP", "Video Blogging RPF", and "Minecraft (Video Game)"

Wilbur & Tommy or Crime Boys is the most tagged relationship in the fandom "Dream SMP" with 11329 out of 71,451 fics being tagged, roughly ~15.9% of all fics

"Angst" is the most tagged additional tag in the fandom "Dream SMP" with 18441 out of 71,451 fics being tagged, roughly ~25.8% of all fics

Dream/George or DreamNotFound is the most tagged relationship in the fandom "Video Blogging RPF" with 20952 out of 236,117 fics being tagged, roughly ~8.9% of all fics. 10,983 fics have DreamNotFound as their OTP/only contain this relationship

"Fluff" is the most tagged additional tag in the fandom "Video Blogging RPF" with 48069 out of 236,118 fics being tagged, roughly ~20.4% of all fics. 

Please note that "Video Blogging RPF" includes other fandoms outside of MCYT as well as other SMPs. I am in hell.

Dream/George or DreamNotFound is the most tagged relationship in the fandom "Minecraft (Video Game)" with 14290 out of 104,515 fics being tagged, roughly ~13.7% of all fics. 14,290 fics have DreamNotFound as their OTP/only contain this relationship

"Angst" is the most tagged additional tag in the fandom "Minecraft (Video Game)" with 27995 out of 104,515 fics being tagged, roughly ~26.8% of all fics

Lifesteal SMP

Branzy/ClownPierce or Clownzy is the most tagged relationship with 249 out of 676 fics being tagged, roughly ~36.8% of all fics. 141 fics have Clownzy as their OTP/only contain this relationship

Ashswag/Reddoons or Swagdoons is the second more tagged relationship with 94 out of 676 fics being tagged, roughly ~13.9% of all fics. 43 have Swagdoons as their OTP/only contain this relationship. 

As a result, "Lifesteal SMP" has a majority of fics tagged as "M/M" or "Male/Male Relationships" (357 fics) than "Gen" (248 fics)

"Angst" is the most tagged additional tag with 162 out of 676 fics being tagged, roughly ~24% of all fics

Fandom Awards!

The "Fluffiest" fandom award goes to "Hermitcraft"! Although, giving Hermitcraft this award when there’s an equal amount of angst fics and fluff fics is a little bit of a cop-out, with both tags having ~19% as a rough percentage. 

The "Angstiest" fandom award goes to "Traffic SMPs/Life Series"! "Traffic SMPs/Life Series" has the most fics tagged "Angst" with a rough percentage of ~29.2%!

the "Shippiest" fandom award goes to "Lifesteal SMP"! "Lifesteal SMP" has the most fics tagged with the ship Branzy/ClownPierce with a rough percentage of ~36.8%! 

Relationship Comparisons 

Compared to August 2nd, 2022, Grian/Mumbo or Grumbo has been overtaken by Grian/Scar or Scarian for the most tagged “Hermitcraft” relationship! Grumbo has gone from ~9% of all fics to ~6.1%, a ~2.9% decrease! 

Compared to August 2nd, 2022, Grian & Scar or Desert Duo has gone from ~19% of all “Traffic SMP/Life Series” fics to ~20.2%, a ~1.2% increase! 

Compared to August 2nd, 2022, Jimmy/Scott or Flower Husbands has gone from ~35% of all “Empires SMP” fics to ~27.4%, a ~7.6% decrease! 

Compared to August 2nd, 2022, Wilbur & Tommy or Crime Boys has gone from ~14% of all “Dream SMP” fics to ~15.9%, a ~1.9% increase! 

Compared to August 2nd, 2022, Dream/George or DreamNotFound has gone from ~9% of all “Video Blogging RPF” fics to ~8.9%, a ~0.1% decrease! 

Compared to August 2nd, 2022, Dream/George or DreamNotFound has gone from ~14% of all “Minecraft (Video Game)” fics to ~13.7%, a ~0.3% decrease! 

Compared to August 2nd, 2022, Branzy/ClownPierce or Clownzy has gone from ~55% of all “Lifesteal SMP” fics to ~36.8%, a ~18.2% decrease! 

Compared to August 2nd, 2022, Ashswag/Reddoons or Swagdoons has gone from ~3.3% of all “Lifesteal SMP” fics to ~13.9%, a ~10.6% increase! 

Although Clownzy has gone down ~18.2%, the percentage of M/M fics has stayed relatively the same (~56.2% -> ~52.8%). So although Clownzy might not be as popular, there are just new ships taking their place. #swagdoonssweep, I guess. Gay people are somehow winning and losing at the same time.

Fandom Growth

Compared to August 2nd, 2022, “Hermitcraft” has gone from 9,268 fics to 13,710 fics, a ~148% increase! 

Compared to August 2nd, 2022, “Traffic SMP/Life Series” has gone from 2,885 fics to 4,815 fics, a ~167% increase! 

Compared to August 2nd, 2022, “Empires SMP” has gone from 1,709 fics to 3,860 fics, a ~226% increase! 

Compared to August 2nd, 2022, “Dream SMP” has gone from 53,803 fics to 71,451 fics, a ~133% increase! 

Compared to August 2nd, 2022, “Video Blogging RPF” has gone from 209,369 fics to 236,117 fics, a ~113% increase! 

Compared to August 2nd, 2022, “Minecraft (Video Game)” has gone from 96,746  fics to 104,515 fics, a ~108% increase! 

Compared to August 2nd, 2022, “Lifesteal SMP” has gone from 121 fics to 676 fics, a ~319% increase! 

Congratulations to Lifesteal SMP for having the largest fandom growth out of this entire list!

A note as always, these statistics will probably be outdated soon. As a frame of reference, these statistics were taken on February 22nd, 2023 at around 9 - 9:30 PM EST!

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my favorite thing about the fandom view is that all of the additional tags are organized by alphabetical order so you have. such a visual when all of these tags are next to each other even though they're all different fics

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okay so im knee deep into lifesteal brainrot and its been a while since ive made a stats post and i had some data from august 2nd so...

Lifesteal SMP Statistics Compared to August 2nd

if you want to see the statistics post from august 2nd, you can find it here! snapshot archive here, and the data was taken at around october 16th, 12:30 AM EST

please note that snapshots are a little scuffed as they do not include fics that you need an ao3 account to see

but with that out of the way: here are the lifesteal stats compared to august 2nd!

Fic Number Increases/Decreases

Lifesteal SMP has had a 266% increase since august 2nd

Clownzy or Branzy/ClownPierce has had a 9% overall fandom decrease. the number of clownzy fics has gone up by 224%

Gen Fics have had a 8% overall fandom increase. the number of gen fics has gone up 310%

M/M Fics have had a 1% overall fandom decrease. the number of m/m fics has gone up 260%

Angst Fics had had a 4% increase. the number of angst fics has gone up 324%

Updated Fic Statistics

Lifesteal SMP: 121 -> 322 fics

Clownzy or Branzy/ClownPierce: ~55% (66/121) -> ~46% (148/322), otps/fics only containing this ship have gone from 51 (~42%) -> 102 (~32%)

Gen Fics: ~25% (30/121) -> ~33% (107/322)

M/M Fics: ~56% (68/121) -> ~55% (177/322)

Angst: ~21% (25/121) -> ~25% (81/322)

Misc Stats

according to a post i had on august 1st, there were only 2 fics with Funhouse Duo or Branzy & ClownPierce tagged. now there are 38 fics tagged Branzy & ClownPierce

Swagdoons or Ashswag/Reddoons make up ~8% (26/322) of total fics

ClownPierce is in ~67% (216/322) of all total fics, Branzy comes in 2nd place at ~62% (201/322), and Rekrap2 comes in 3rd place at ~25% (80/322)

Stats Analysis

there's not too much for me to say, personally. the lifesteal fandom has definitely exploded in popularity, as edident in most fic numbers having fic increases in the hundreds.

despite clownzy having a decrease in fandom percentage, the percentage of m/m fics has stayed more or less the same. i think this is because of more ships becoming popular (the one that comes to mind is swagdoons), and it's interesting to see that reflected in the fic stats.

gen fics have had a huge increase. personally i think this is because of other members becoming popular in the fandom (i say this from what people in the lifesteal tag/my dash seem to do), and because of that, more relationship dynamics are explored.

and i'm not sure how to close this post off. collecting this data has been super neat! :) hopefully the data was fun 2 read

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i love seeing fandom trends because like. objectively some of them are quite funny

more specifically i thought abt how funny everyone went "ah yes. watcher branzy" despite him not being a part of evo in the slightest. there is just a large overlap in people who like the gay clown and last life. i say this because ever since martyn brang back watchers, in less than a years time frame, 620 new watcher grian fics were published. before that were only 178 fics tagged that and all of those were made after and the universe was published, the most popular non crossover hermitcraft fanfic, bringing the total amount of grian watcher fics to be 7% of all hermitcraft fics and 6% of all traffic smp fics with a 448% increase of them ever since last life. wild

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okay so i have a habit of checking ao3 statistics in regards to tags right? i think so far the funniest thing is that lifesteal has the highest percentage of ship fics ive seen in a mcyt fandom with 55% of total fics involving clownzy (for context, out of all dsmp fics dnf only is 8% of all total fics) plus clownzy's platonic duo tag being so underused ao3 doesn't recognize it as a tag (shoutout to the 2 fics that use that tag) and hermitcraft being the only mcyt fandom that has more fluff fics than angst ones compared to dsmp, lifesteal, empires, and the traffic smps. its so funny to me plus its super interesting how certain fandoms compare to each other LMAO

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reading the ao3 otw board election rn and im sitting here like "HAS MS SCRIBE TAUGHT YOU NOTHING???? HAS FANFICTION.NET TAUGHT YOU NOTHING?????? HAVE YOUVE EVER EXPERIENCED THE HELL OF WATTPAD FIC SEARCH????"

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anyways shout out to nature wives for having the highest percentage (3%) of a single f/f pairing out of most mcyt smps dispite first starting out as a crack ship i'm pretty sure. (for context puffychu is only 0.5% of all dsmp fics,..,so congratulations empires for having the most femslash!)

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love watching the ao3 tags in the hermitcraft tag because fluff and angst are constantly duking it out. like they only beat the other by the skin of their teeth its so funny compared to any other mcyt fandom

heres dsmp for context

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hello! i like ao3 statistics and data and i keep track of them sometimes :)

big data posts happen whenever i feel like it, will be tagged #ao3 stat recap as well as tags of the month + year they were posted

smaller/fun facts i find will be tagged #ao3 stats

generic posts about mcyt fic trends will be tagged #fandom trends

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okay so. based on my last post about ao3 statistics i have decided to do further research based on mcyt fandoms (specifically hermitcraft, the traffic smps/life series, empires smp, dream smp, and lifesteal smp) on ao3 and have compiled my findings into one coherent post!

awards for a few categories are at the end! :)

Hermitcraft

hermitcraft is the only fandom on this list to have the tag "No Romantic Relationship(s)" be the most tagged relationship with 847 out of all 9268 fics being tagged, roughly ~9% of all fics

onto actual relationships, Grian/Mumbo or Grumbo is the most tagged relationship with 626 out of 9268 fics being tagged, roughly ~7% of all fics. 313 fics have Grumbo as their OTP/only contain this relationship

Grian & Mumbo or Waffle Duo is the most tagged platonic relationship with 538 out of 9268 fics being tagged, roughly ~6% of all fics

hermitcraft is the only fandom on this list to have the tag "Fluff" be the most tagged additional tag with 1729 out of 9268 fics being tagged, roughly ~19% of all fics

despite this, the tag "Angst" is close behind with 1725 out of 9268 fics being tagged, roughly ~19%. there's only a 4-number difference between "Angst" taking over "Fluff"!

Traffic SMPs/Life Series

Grian & Scar or Desert Duo is the most tagged relationship with 544 out of 2885 fics being tagged, roughly ~19% of all fics

Grian/Scar or Scarian is the most tagged romantic relationship with 401 out of 2885 fics being tagged, roughly ~14% of all fics. 178 fics have Scarian as their OTP/only contain this relationship

Scott/Jimmy or Flower Husbands is the second most tagged romantic relationship with 347 out of 2885 fics being tagged, roughly ~12% of all fics. 149 fics have Flower Husbands as their OTP/only contain this relationship

despite very little interactions before double life, Jimmy/Tango or Team Rancher is the third most tagged romantic relationship with 217 out of 2885 fics being tagged, roughly ~8% of all fics. 82 fics have Team Rancher as their OTP/only contain this relationship. for Platonic Team Rancher, 194 out of 2885 fics or ~7% are tagged

also since im biased and this is my post (i am an ethubs/divorced duo enjoyer), 144 out of 2885 fics or ~5% fics are tagged with Bdubs & EthosLab

"Angst" is the most tagged additional tag with 898 out of 2885 fics being tagged, roughly ~31% of all fics, making "Traffic SMPs/Life Series" the angstiest fandom on this list!

Empires SMP

Jimmy/Scott or Flower Husbands is the most tagged relationship with 600 out of 1709 fics being tagged, roughly ~35% of all fics. 250 fics have Flower Husbands as their OTP/only contain this relationship

Flower Husbands is the most tagged relationship by a longshot, with the second most tagged relationship being Joel/Lizzie or Jizzie with 298 out of 1709 fics being tagged, roughly ~17% of all fics

as a result, "Empires SMP" has more fics tagged as "M/M" or "Male/Male Relationships" than "Gen", a rare occurrence on this list!

"Alternate Universe - Empires SMP Setting (Video Blogging RPF)" is the most tagged additional tag with 496 out of 1709 fics being tagged, roughly ~29% of all fics

"Angst" is the second most tagged additional tag with 414 out of 1709 fics being tagged, roughly ~24% of all fics

Dream SMP*

*due to the complicated matter of Dream SMP tagging, i will be including statistics from the fandoms "Dream SMP", "Video Blogging RPF", and "Minecraft (Video Game)"

Wilbur & Tommy or Crime Boys is the most tagged relationship in the fandom "Dream SMP" with 7703 out of 53803 fics being tagged, roughly ~14% of all fics

"Angst" is the most tagged additional tag in the fandom "Dream SMP" with 14655 out of 53803 fics being tagged, roughly ~27% of all fics

Dream/George or DreamNotFound is the most tagged relationship in the fandom "Video Blogging RPF" with 19104 out of 209369 fics being tagged, roughly ~9% of all fics. 9988 fics have DreamNotFound as their OTP/only contain this relationship

"Fluff" is the most tagged additional tag in the fandom "Video Blogging RPF" with 43324 out of 209374 fics being tagged, roughly ~21% of all fics. note that "Video Blogging RPF" includes other fandoms outside of mcyt, which is why i put "Hermitcraft" as the only fandom on this list with more fluff fics

Dream/George or DreamNotFound is the most tagged relationship in the fandom "Minecraft (Video Game)" with 13938 out of 96745 fics being tagged, roughly ~14% of all fics. 6872 fics have DreamNotFound as their OTP/only contain this relationship

"Angst" is the most tagged additional tag in the fandom "Minecraft (Video Game)" with 26310 out of 96746 fics being tagged, roughly ~27% of all fics

Lifesteal SMP

Branzy/ClownPierce or Clownzy is the most tagged relationship with 66 out of 121 fics being tagged, roughly ~55% of all fics. 51 fics have Clownzy as their OTP/only contain this relationship

as a result, "Lifesteal SMP" has a majority of fics tagged as "M/M" or "Male/Male Relationships" (68 fics) than "Gen" (30 fics)

"Angst" is the most tagged additional tag with 25 out of 121 fics being tagged, roughly ~21% of all fics

Fandom Awards!

the "Fluffiest" fandom award goes to "Hermitcraft"! "Hermitcraft" is the only mcyt exclusive fandom on this list to have more fics tagged "Fluff" than fics tagged "Angst" with a rough percentage of ~19%!

the "Angstiest" fandom award goes to "Traffic SMPs/Life Series"! "Traffic SMPs/Life Series" has the most fics tagged "Angst" with a rough percentage of ~31%!

the "Shippiest" fandom award goes to "Lifesteal SMP"! "Lifesteal SMP" has the most fics tagged with the ship Branzy/ClownPierce with a rough percentage of ~55%!

the only fandom that comes close to the "Shippiest" fandom is "Empires SMP"! "Empires SMP" has the second most fics tagged with the ship Jimmy/Scott with a rough percentage of ~35%!

a note as always, these statistics will probably be outdated soon. as a frame of reference, these statistics were taken on August 2nd, 2022 at ~4 PM EST!