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[butterflycultist]

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[hamsteriffic]

Miraculous Fandom Stats

Miraculous Paris Special

I was wondering if the Miraculous Paris Special has generated more excitement than the other specials or is it just me connecting with my past punky girl?

I also wondered if this was measurable - and possibly translate to more fanfics on Ao3.

I’ve definitely seen a lot of art and have also gone on an art binge myself @hamsterdraws (but I don’t know how to quantitate posts on Tumblr). So here is my attempt to quantitate my obsession with these emo kids!

Reblog don’t repost!

📈 The data presented here is a snapshot of the Ao3 database as of December 17, 2023.

🖤 Fics Posted to Ao3

It’s only been since October 15, 2023 [1], but the preview was shown straight after the Season 5 finale in July. So overall there has been almost 6 months of speculation and hype surrounding the TV Special.

Fig 1. Total number of fics posted that has been tagged with the Miraculous Paris Special (sample size of 80) [2].

🖤 How does it compare against the other specials?

From my own opinion, I was way more excited about seeing the evil counterparts of my blorbos than seeing them do the same Lovesquare dance again. So is is just me?

Fig 2. Total number of fanfics for each Miraculous special or movie.

I think the numbers reflect the positive uptake of the Paris Special. In the first two months alone there are twice as many fics as Miraculous Shanghai.

Fig 3. Time-adjusted number of fics posted to Ao3 per month since aired. The lighter shaded bar takes into account the public release date and not the trailer date.

For a better comparison, I included the movie because it was released at roughly the same time the teaser trailer. Even though the characters were roughly the same in the movie as the TV show, they had slightly different personality traits.

Fig 4. Number of fics written about them per month in the first six months following their release dates.

The arrow indicates when the Paris Special was televised and the preceding months were based on the teaser trailer. At the time of posting, we are only halfway through December and more fics may be posted by the end of the year.

🖤 What did I learn?

On all appearances, Miraculous World: New York - United HeroeZ had more fanfics, but keep in mind that this was released in September 26, 2020 [3].

There appears to be an initial flurry of fanfics posted on Ao3 using tags for the Miraculous Special: New York, however this excitement has petered out gradually. While the Miraculous Paris Special has yet to reach that initial number, only two months has elapsed since it was publicly aired.

The Miraculous Movie on the other hand was released a few months before the Miraculous Special aired and it had generated much less fanfiction - or at least were not tagged [4-5].

In conclusion, it appears that the Miraculous Paris Special has been received well by the fans. I would be interested to see if this trend continues or if like the New York special, the fics will fizzle out.

🖤 Total Number of Fics Tagged

Miraculous Paris Special (80 Fics)

Miraculous Shanghai (33 fics)

Miraculous New York (177 fics)

Miraculous Movie (40 fics)

Miraculous Christmas Special (9 fics)

Miraculous Origins (31 fics)

Miraculous s05e28 Action (0 fics)

More numbers for the other Miraculous World specials and references below the cut.

🖤 Number of fics tagged with New Characters

Miraculous World: Paris

Shadybug | Toxinelle (32 fics)

Claw Noir | Griffe Noire (42 fics)

Betterfly | Hesperia (20 fics)

Miraculous World: New York

Number of fics tagged for:

Jessica Keynes | Sparrow | Eagle (103)

Aeon | Uncanny Valley (108)

Olympia Hill | Majestia (11)

Barbara Keynes | Knightowl (32)

Dean Gate | Doorman (4)

Mike Rochip | Technopirate (4)

Hot Dog Dan (8)

Miraculous World: Shanghai

Number of fics tagged for:

Fei Wu | Ladydragon (132)

Cash | King Cash (5)

References

[1] Miraculous Paris Special (Club-Canal+ Preview Screening pre-release date: Oct 15, 2023) ( https://miraculousladybug.fandom.com/wiki/Miraculous_Paris)

[2] Looked up terms such as Miraculous Paris Special on the Tag Search tool in Ao3 and found disambiguation and collated the freeform tags that were not found under the main Ao3 tag.

[3] Miraculous World: New York - United HeroeZ (https://miraculousladybug.fandom.com/wiki/Miraculous_New_York)

[4] Miraculous World: Shanghai, The Legend of Ladydragon (French release: April 4, 2021) (https://miraculousladybug.fandom.com/wiki/Miraculous_Shanghai)

[5] Ladybug & Chat Noir: The Movie (French Release Date: July 05, 2023) (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt10364034/)

[subway-dove]

TAG GAME!

I AM a dork who wants to play !!! FUCK yea @your-void-senpai

Current time: 1:19 pm

Current activity: Layin down after I glued my precious Hello Kitty to Issho fig to its base because like three minutes ago there was a tremor and it FELL FROM MY SHELF

Currently thinking about: Poor girl. She's been knocked around so much. Her glasses broke off once as well. Her resell value's probably tanked but thats okay because i dont want to sell her and even though she's rare i got her secondhand in the first place!! For like 18 bucks!!

Current favorite song: Hm. Yesterday it was bug by kakiri bear as interpreted by N25. Today? who knows..!!!!!

Currently reading: The collected poems of Vicente Huidobro (takes drag of a pencil as if it were a cigarette and gets a coughing fit anyways)

Currently watching: Criminal minds !!.. tbh i can't say if i recommend it or not to me it's kind of just The Media that Spencer Reid Inhabits and I would be ok with the show being about like. anything 😭 and it IS anything. its a show about astrology for cops

Current favorite character: Spencer Reid my blorbo. specially interested in his cringe ass. oh i love him so much.

Current wips: My criminal minds/spider-man (2002) parker/reid crossover fic they are. like my buddy elvis said . fucked up mirrors of each other. its called spiral silk oh its my baby. its my emerging masterpiece. ft. the man the myth the legend j jonah jameson. please read it and let it eat your brain this is currently a two person fandom and we're STRUGGLING. Also painting a life sized self portrait👍

Wanna play nerds??? @elvisqueso @aphternoon @battleaxeproficiency @math-turbation @slugluvvr @walkingencyclopediaofweirdmayo @nevereacheaven

[butterflycultist]

Another one!! Omg!!!! Who would've guessed???

I've been having a lot of fun making stimboards recently :3 and he is still my biiiiggest comfort character rn sooooo I made another one of him!

Also snakes definitely seem like a Wesker thing :3

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