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Monday Mini: A Love Letter to Fanfiction · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I'm welcome to Stephane.
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  Speaker 1: Never told your protection of I Heart Radio, and today
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  Speaker 1: we are doing one that is very near and dear
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  Speaker 1: to our heart. Well, it is your birthday week, even
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  Speaker 1: though as we're recording it's not, but it's coming upon
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  Speaker 1: it as if the listeners are listening to it. It
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  Speaker 1: is Annie's birthday week, so we must do all things
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  Speaker 1: and he loves and I was thinking that we needed
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  Speaker 1: a whole week of Annie's favorite things. I want to
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  Speaker 1: do it that way, but you know, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: this month has had a lot of topics that are
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  Speaker 1: some of my favorite things. So as it should be,
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  Speaker 1: as it should be, UM, So hopefully you're enjoying all
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  Speaker 1: of the nerd jum and nursery so much. And Samantha
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  Speaker 1: and I were discussing before this. I think we've said
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  Speaker 1: before how we generally when we do these episodes, UM,
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  Speaker 1: somebody will take the lead and do the research and
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  Speaker 1: write it out and then we kind of split who
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  Speaker 1: says what. But there are some topics that it just
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  Speaker 1: feels so obvious that I'm the one that probably wrote
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  Speaker 1: this one. Well, the title you have for this, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if we're using it is a love
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  Speaker 1: letter to fan fiction. Yeah, I think we know whose
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  Speaker 1: love letter it is, Like, it's kind of obvious, it's true.
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  Speaker 1: It's true. So I once again, I'm going to be
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  Speaker 1: talking a lot in Savantha is going to be supporting
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  Speaker 1: me and perhaps asking questions. There is confusion. Yes, that's
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  Speaker 1: what I love about you. Um, however, you did reveal
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  Speaker 1: right before this you had a live journal, and I
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  Speaker 1: want to come back and revisit this at all later date.
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  Speaker 1: It will be later times, yes, because I have quite
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  Speaker 1: a lot to say about fan fiction, as it turns out,
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  Speaker 1: surprice no one. And actually this one could have been longer,
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: so it's a Monday mini and I tried to limit myself,
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  Speaker 1: but it's already quite long alright. So yes, today we
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  Speaker 1: are this is a love letter to one of the
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  Speaker 1: loves of my life, which is fan fiction, and we
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  Speaker 1: are going to be focusing specifically on a O three
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  Speaker 1: or Archive of our own, which is my current favorite
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  Speaker 1: fan fiction site, though I grew up on fan fiction
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  Speaker 1: dot net, which is still around as well. And also
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to shout out a recent article that gave
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  Speaker 1: me this idea from The Verge written by j Costello
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  Speaker 1: called Archive of Our Owns fifteen year journey from blog
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  Speaker 1: post to fan fiction powerhouse. A O three, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: is not a sponsor. It's also a nonprofit, so I
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  Speaker 1: doubt they would be a sponsor, but you know sometimes
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  Speaker 1: and you can see our episodes on dub Con and
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  Speaker 1: fan fiction I think specifically dub Con for this one. Actually.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So, according to this article, the first stirrings
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  Speaker 1: of what would become Archive of our Own OREO three
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  Speaker 1: started in two thousand seven, when fanfic authors, who again
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  Speaker 1: are mostly women and marginalized folks, saw some efforts from
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  Speaker 1: companies created by men to capitalize on the space UM.
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  Speaker 1: One such company was called fan lib, a commercialized fan
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  Speaker 1: content site. It eventually garnered about twenty five thou members,
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  Speaker 1: but also a whole bunch of criticism from people who
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  Speaker 1: had been writing fan fiction for free in this space
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  Speaker 1: four years and felt like these outsiders were coming in
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  Speaker 1: and making money off of stuff that they always offered
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  Speaker 1: for free. UM And a part of the whole thing
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  Speaker 1: that keeps people from being sued from writing fan fiction
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  Speaker 1: is that they aren't making money. So I'm kind of
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  Speaker 1: confused by that. UM We're going to talk about that
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more later, because apparently it's not as
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  Speaker 1: a big deal as I was taught that you might
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  Speaker 1: be sued at any minute. But yeah, one of the
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  Speaker 1: big things is I'm not making any money. Don't come
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  Speaker 1: at me, Disney, al right. So seeing this kind of
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  Speaker 1: commercialization attempt, a published author both of more traditional stuff
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  Speaker 1: and fan fiction named Naomi Novik wrote on live journal,
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  Speaker 1: which was and still is space rife and growing with
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  Speaker 1: fan fiction, wrote in two thousand and seven, we are
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  Speaker 1: sitting quietly by the fireside, creating piles and piles of
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  Speaker 1: kind tent around us, and other people are going to
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  Speaker 1: look at that and see an opportunity. The people behind
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  Speaker 1: fan lib but don't actually care about fanfic, the fanfit community,
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  Speaker 1: or anything except making money off content created entirely by
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  Speaker 1: other people and getting media attention. They don't have a
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  Speaker 1: single fanfic reader or a writer on their board. They
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  Speaker 1: don't even have a single woman on their board. We
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  Speaker 1: need a central archive of our own. And so only
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  Speaker 1: a few months later, the nonprofit the Organization of Transformative
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  Speaker 1: Works was formed with a goal of preserving fan works
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  Speaker 1: and advocating for them as well, and Archive of our
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  Speaker 1: Own was launched in two thousand nine, which is a
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  Speaker 1: part of the Organization of Transformative Works or o t
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  Speaker 1: w UM and has become just about the biggest and
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  Speaker 1: well known, most well known name and fan fiction. However,
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  Speaker 1: as Costello details in the article, no Vic starts the
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  Speaker 1: story about a decade earlier in Yes, I remember it well,
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  Speaker 1: that's about when I was you know, I was coming
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  Speaker 1: up reading fan fiction UM, and the fan fiction sites
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  Speaker 1: at that time where they were spread out. UM, they
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  Speaker 1: often didn't work well or at all, I remember, just
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  Speaker 1: like wonky text, like how it was laid out would
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  Speaker 1: be very difficult to read. It's sometimes these whole sites
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  Speaker 1: would break and they would lose people's works forever, just devastating.
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  Speaker 1: Novic was a self taught programmer and a fan fiction
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  Speaker 1: reader who was seeing all of this happened to her
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  Speaker 1: friends and so to help, Novic brought some Pearl scripts
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  Speaker 1: and it was through this she eventually got the idea
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  Speaker 1: of what was important when it came to archiving, which
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  Speaker 1: eventually these ideas made it their way to a oh
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  Speaker 1: three things like highly searchable pages, all the tags you
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  Speaker 1: could ask for, an easily understandable recommendation functions. So, once
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  Speaker 1: familiarized with scripting and coding, Novic started running a holiday
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  Speaker 1: fan fiction exchange and two thousands which Savanta has been
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  Speaker 1: around and I've like reach the benefits of these exchanges.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes, it's sort of like a Secret Santa for
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  Speaker 1: fan fiction where authors will usually there's a prompt and
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  Speaker 1: authors will assigned get assigned one of another author in
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  Speaker 1: the group, and they write a story for that author. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And it means that like one Friday night, a hundred
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  Speaker 1: stories are posted. It's excellent, excellent, Oh it is, I
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  Speaker 1: love it. I love it. Through this, Novic really made
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  Speaker 1: a name for herself and the fan fiction community, and um,
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  Speaker 1: she recounts how people started volunteering to help her, meaning
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  Speaker 1: she pretty much never worked alone at this point. Novic said,
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  Speaker 1: after a while, the community you keep around yourself are
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  Speaker 1: the people who are reliable, who care enough about fandom
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  Speaker 1: that fandom is a way of life, that are willing
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  Speaker 1: to invest some time not just in reading the stories
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  Speaker 1: and writing the stories, but in the building of the
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  Speaker 1: infrastructure to what The people Novic worked with were an
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  Speaker 1: English performance and fan steady scholar named Francesca Coppa and
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  Speaker 1: a legal scholar and former clerk for the Supreme Court,
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  Speaker 1: Rebecca Tishnet. Both were highly engaged in fandom's future and
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  Speaker 1: the legality of fan fiction and fan works, and on
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  Speaker 1: top of that, how fan fiction was perceived as disgust
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  Speaker 1: in our past fan fiction episodes, while now people write
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  Speaker 1: articles about their favorite fan fiction, their recommendations. If you
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  Speaker 1: like this, go read this. You can find TikTok recommendations
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  Speaker 1: about fan fiction. Big movies mentioned fan fiction and brace it.
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  Speaker 1: When I was growing up reading it. Oh no, you
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  Speaker 1: did not talk about your fan fiction. You won't be
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  Speaker 1: the case like your older brother dad. You're reading fan fiction.
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  Speaker 1: You try died, you had like your select group of
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  Speaker 1: friends that knew who they also read it. And the
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  Speaker 1: articles being written about it were not kind at the time.
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  Speaker 1: They were deriving it um and even whipping up fearmongering
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  Speaker 1: around it, like why young girls writing a rodica and also, yes,
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  Speaker 1: you'll get suited, you're wasting your time. Why don't you
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  Speaker 1: do something original? All that stuff, and yeah, historically it
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  Speaker 1: had been like this for a long way, going back
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  Speaker 1: to the eighteen hundreds, when religious people were worried about
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  Speaker 1: women writing fan fiction with any romantic or sexual content. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: they were. These women were not upstanding and maybe even possessed.
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  Speaker 1: So a long time we felt like this as a society,
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  Speaker 1: and a big part of this fear or derision, as
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  Speaker 1: recounted in the article and as I can personally attest to,
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  Speaker 1: was homophobia and sexism, specifically like a real fear of
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  Speaker 1: women's sexuality since fan fiction is pretty queer. Uh, it's
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  Speaker 1: a pretty queer space dominated by women. Kappa recalls receiving
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  Speaker 1: frantic emails from author's worried they'd lose their jobs if
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  Speaker 1: their boss found out that they wrote fan fiction. One
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  Speaker 1: example Coppa gave was from a woman who wrote, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going through a divorce and my husband is going to
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  Speaker 1: take my thick and tell the judge I'm an unfit
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  Speaker 1: mother and try to take my children. How fast can
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  Speaker 1: you make me disappear from the internet. Kappa also shared
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  Speaker 1: her own anxieties about fandom and being asked if there
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  Speaker 1: was fan fiction about Kirk and Spock having sex like
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times when she would appear and to
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  Speaker 1: talk about it, that was like the thing people asked,
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  Speaker 1: to which she remembers responding essentially, yep, you should go
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  Speaker 1: read it. She herself had nightmares about losing her job
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  Speaker 1: over fan fiction. And I have to because I thought
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  Speaker 1: I accidentally gave a whole flash drive of my fan
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  Speaker 1: fiction to a co worker. I won't say, but I
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  Speaker 1: spent like a year twisting and turning at night thinking
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  Speaker 1: about this. I was going, I'm still scared. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know the answer for sure, but I've kind of come
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  Speaker 1: to piece with it, like I can't worry about this
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  Speaker 1: any longer. But then I was afraid, like what if
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  Speaker 1: he never saw it, but he lost a flash Even
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  Speaker 1: then someone else saw it and they put it up
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  Speaker 1: and they were like, look what this deprived girl is writing.
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  Speaker 1: She's oh gosh, it's a real fair yes. And then meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: Tushnet was one of the first who was outspoken in
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  Speaker 1: defending fan fiction on the legal side, maintaining that almost
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  Speaker 1: all of it was completely egal because this was I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling you, at the time, everybody would put like a
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  Speaker 1: disclaimer at the top, like this is owned by Disney.
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  Speaker 1: I'm only playing in their sandbox and they don't make
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  Speaker 1: any money. Please don't like people. Every van fiction had
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  Speaker 1: something like that top. We were very scared about them
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  Speaker 1: getting sued or something, so all of this came together
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  Speaker 1: with fan lib acting as a catalyst in two thousand seven.
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  Speaker 1: And as I've discussed before, one of the beautiful things
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  Speaker 1: about fan fiction is the community around it, and Novik
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  Speaker 1: and Kappa, along with many others, have been a part
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  Speaker 1: of the building and cultivating this fandom. And they weren't
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  Speaker 1: just gonna let fan lib and the like come in
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  Speaker 1: and erace that COPA said, I'm in a fandom where
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  Speaker 1: somebody is hurt and another fan drives two states over
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  Speaker 1: to help, And so there was a sense of urgency
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  Speaker 1: that we had to build something before somebody else built
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  Speaker 1: something shiny that would make new people who've come to
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  Speaker 1: fandom think, oh, that's what fandom is. Another catalyst, uh.
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  Speaker 1: Not long after Novic's original two thousand and seven, post
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  Speaker 1: live journals suddenly and permanently suspended over five hundred accounts
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  Speaker 1: that made some kind of mention around sexual content. And
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  Speaker 1: they did this without warning to accounts that did nothing
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  Speaker 1: illegal and did not violate live journal's terms. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: give any consistent reason why. The CEO even called the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing a total mess and promised to reinstate those
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  Speaker 1: wrongfully banned, but surprise, surprise, a few months later, the
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  Speaker 1: same thing happened with even more bands going through and
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  Speaker 1: this was a major cause for concern for fan communities
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  Speaker 1: when people our whole groups could get banned without warning,
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  Speaker 1: and fan faction dot net had a similar issue, so
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  Speaker 1: a new space was needed. Originally, Novic has said she
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  Speaker 1: wasn't interested in building the archive herself, but so many
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  Speaker 1: people reached out to her wanting to help, but on
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  Speaker 1: clear on what to do. I'm sure of how to organize,
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  Speaker 1: so Novic changed her mind. She decided on a nonprofit
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  Speaker 1: to protect it from being sold if founders ever moved
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  Speaker 1: on and or wanted to sell. Fan lib itself was
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: purchased by Disney and shut down almost a year after
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: beta testing, so that's what they were trying to prevent.
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  Speaker 1: Through years of running events both online and off with
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  Speaker 1: participants the world over of coding, Novic had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the necessary skills and new people who had the
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  Speaker 1: ones she didn't. All kinds of volunteers stepped up with
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: experience in law, server maintenance, design, accessibility, coding, design, all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of things. I said design twice. It's very important
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  Speaker 1: because fans are everywhere and do everything, and the words
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  Speaker 1: of COPA fan girls do absolutely every job there is.
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  Speaker 1: The founding members of the team put together coding programs
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  Speaker 1: so that people who wanted to learn to code uh
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  Speaker 1: could they had an avenue to do so. People, mostly women,
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  Speaker 1: recount doing this and having fun in a space they
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  Speaker 1: may have never entered or thought that they couldn't do it,
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  Speaker 1: were intimidated by it. They joined with friends and then
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  Speaker 1: go on to train others so that the community could
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  Speaker 1: support itself. And because it was built by volunteers who
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  Speaker 1: are fans, it was built around their feedback. The tagging system,
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  Speaker 1: which is one of my absolute favorite things for instances
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  Speaker 1: so good. It's so good, they're so creative. So basically,
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  Speaker 1: if an author wants to tag a thing in a
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  Speaker 1: way that might not be how a reader searches for it,
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  Speaker 1: but is the same thing, they should end up wrangling
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  Speaker 1: to the same story. So they are these people called
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  Speaker 1: tag wranglers. And so if I type in sad murder
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  Speaker 1: Dad and Star Wars fan fiction, but it's really just
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  Speaker 1: exactly it should still bring me to that story even
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  Speaker 1: if it's not tagged sad murder Dad. People who worked
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  Speaker 1: on this the tagging system understandably feel really proud of it,
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  Speaker 1: including a founding member, Michelle Tepper, who told Verge, I
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  Speaker 1: actually have saved on my phone the tag page for
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  Speaker 1: fields i e. Emotional stories. You can just scroll through
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  Speaker 1: and see all the different version of feels, feels exclamation part,
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  Speaker 1: all the fields, so many feels. I'm like, this is
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  Speaker 1: the greatest thing I have ever helped make happen in
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  Speaker 1: my career. And she worked for MTV and BBC. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, um, I mean I we used to say
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  Speaker 1: that as a kid, all the fields, I have to
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  Speaker 1: feel all the fields, and that was a common place
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  Speaker 1: I used in high school and college for real. So
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  Speaker 1: who's spying on me? Our chive of our own is
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  Speaker 1: all about getting to the truth comes out. And then
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  Speaker 1: Lucy Pearson, he was originally a volunteer and one of
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  Speaker 1: the coding initiatives and moved on to become the chair
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  Speaker 1: of the Accessibility Design and Technology Committee, said of the experience,
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: it was really quite exhilarating coming in on the coding
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  Speaker 1: side and doing something that I'd never even really considered
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  Speaker 1: doing before. It really made me rethink who I was
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  Speaker 1: and what I could do. So with all of this
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: work and organizing a O three went into our in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand nine, the launch was out without problems. For one,
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  Speaker 1: they realized they didn't have a real way to invite
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  Speaker 1: people to join. People worked around the clock over Christmas
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  Speaker 1: holidays that year after they ran no Vic's holiday fan
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  Speaker 1: fiction exchange on AO three and it involved people around
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  Speaker 1: the world and did result in a lot of burnout
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  Speaker 1: in the early days. On top of that, because it
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  Speaker 1: was developed by mostly white, mostly middle class, and mostly
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  Speaker 1: American Western women, that some of that biases went into
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: the programming and that has been a topic of much
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: discussion and debate lately. UM, and yes, it's something we
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: always have to keep in mind with technology around AO
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: three's policies and handling of concerns of people of color.
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  Speaker 1: So basically, there's three tags. Oh there's three tags that
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: you have to tag um no matter what. And one
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: of them, as we talked about in doubt com is
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  Speaker 1: rape or non consensual. But right now, racism isn't one.
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  Speaker 1: So that's one of the pushes is to get that.
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  Speaker 1: As one in a group of scholars and fans wrote
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  Speaker 1: the O t W a letter reading in part, we
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  Speaker 1: strongly urged the board to take immediate steps to help
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  Speaker 1: make fandom of space where all fans, particularly black, indigenous,
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  Speaker 1: and ethnically marginalized fans from all over the globe can thrive.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: In response, AO three launch functionalities like blocking users when
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: logged in and turning off comments, But still many on
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  Speaker 1: the board lament how slow it is to change and
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  Speaker 1: how there are still pages up from two thousand nine.
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  Speaker 1: The perception of fan fiction, however, has changed quite a bit.
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  Speaker 1: One of the board numbers was on a wiscom panel
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  Speaker 1: soon after A three launch, called fan Fic Threat or Menace.
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  Speaker 1: It was scheduled at ten thirty at night, and a
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  Speaker 1: part of the description asked if fan fiction should be
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  Speaker 1: quote accepted as a legitimate creative activity. A decade later,
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  Speaker 1: that same board member appeared at the same conference on
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  Speaker 1: a packed panel in the middle of the day, explaining
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: to people's shock they had not always been welcomed at
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  Speaker 1: this convention. Time magazine named AO three one of the
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  Speaker 1: best websites in two thousand thirteen, and it won a
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  Speaker 1: Hugo Award in twenty nineteen. Cope's university, the ones she'd
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  Speaker 1: been afraid of being fired from for writing fan fiction,
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  Speaker 1: put her picture on the front page a part of
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  Speaker 1: their success was their ability to lessen the fear of lawsuits.
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  Speaker 1: So as I said, like in the early days, you
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  Speaker 1: would be scared these big companies are to show up
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  Speaker 1: at your door. You're getting huge trouble and you have
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  Speaker 1: to explain your fan fiction in front of people like
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  Speaker 1: legal setting. Yeah, they've been able to lessen that fear,
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  Speaker 1: which is allowed fan fiction to strive even more. Something
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  Speaker 1: else is the community. Yeah, ultimately, that keeps it running.
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  Speaker 1: That's what keeps it running. It's why there are no ads.
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  Speaker 1: Geek culture at largest changing and more women and marginalized
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  Speaker 1: folks are claiming their space. People who worked on and
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: in some cases continue to work on three worn that
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  Speaker 1: we're still seeing bands like what Happened on live Journal
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  Speaker 1: that imparts spurred all of this on other platforms UM
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  Speaker 1: and then I just wanted to mention this is something else.
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