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itsclydebitches · 2 months ago

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Has anyone else been inundated with these (presumably) bot PMs interested in "commissions" the last few months? They're all coming from FFN.

While I've long stopped using the site myself, I've kept my work up there under the assumption that not everyone has, or will, make the move to AO3. But going, "Oh! A comment!" every few days only to find this junk is really disheartening.

#fic #fanfic #fandom #anyone else feeling uncharacteristically pessimistic about fandom lately?#like yeah there's always been and will always be drama #but now it's like... bots and suspicious messages and people writing their fics with AI...#I'm obviously simplifying things and so much of fandom is still great #but man sometimes I think 'Where did the community go?'#hell where did the real PEOPLE go half the time??#anyway~

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