Most Fanfic writers are female, and most are teenagers and young women. Various theories abound as to why, but the cause is most likely related to the fact that most visual porn is male-oriented (see: any adult video store or site) while most written porn is female-oriented (see: your local bookstore's erotica section) and Fanfiction, like porn, trades heavily in Author Appeal. This trope is extremely common, even in fandoms that presumably lean heavily male, such as Star Trek, Naruto, and Transformers. Creates a paradox when faced with the trope There Are No Girls on the Internet.
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| - Most Fanfic writers are female, and most are teenagers and young women. Various theories abound as to why, but the cause is most likely related to the fact that most visual porn is male-oriented (see: any adult video store or site) while most written porn is female-oriented (see: your local bookstore's erotica section) and Fanfiction, like porn, trades heavily in Author Appeal. This trope is extremely common, even in fandoms that presumably lean heavily male, such as Star Trek, Naruto, and Transformers. Creates a paradox when faced with the trope There Are No Girls on the Internet.
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| - Most Fanfic writers are female, and most are teenagers and young women. Various theories abound as to why, but the cause is most likely related to the fact that most visual porn is male-oriented (see: any adult video store or site) while most written porn is female-oriented (see: your local bookstore's erotica section) and Fanfiction, like porn, trades heavily in Author Appeal. This trope is extremely common, even in fandoms that presumably lean heavily male, such as Star Trek, Naruto, and Transformers. This trope has been in effect since well before the internet made it much easier to proliferate fanfic. Studies of early Star Trek fanfiction showed as many as 90% of authors were female in the 1970s, even though at the time such stories could only be shared through fanzines or through sending self-addressed-stamped-envelopes to the authors and having them mail you a manuscript. This phenomenon has been subjected to academic analysis by ethnographer Camille Bacon-Smith and MIT's Henry Jenkins. Jenkins suggests in Textual Poachers that fanfiction is a reaction on the part of a female audience trying to find their own pleasures in media that caters mostly to males. See also Shipping, Slash Fic, Everyone Is Gay, Estrogen Brigade, Het Is Ew. Compare Most Writers Are Male and Most Tropers Are Young Nerds. Combine with The Internet Is for Porn to get All Women Are Lustful. Creates a paradox when faced with the trope There Are No Girls on the Internet. Only examples where a character in the work writes a fanfic are to be added. Parodies and deconstructions should not be added. Examples of Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls include:
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