ALRIGHTY well. the ao3 life site being made by an AI-pilled 17 year old sure is... possible, given The State Of Things, but also, sure is a convenient age to be if you want to slide in just under the line where people on the internet start getting REALLY mean with you
...okay. so. the fact that an identical site, registered on the same day as ao3.life, but this time specifically targeting fandoms with black characters, is being built AS WE SPEAK certainly does uhhh cast a bit of doubt on this totally innocent uwu 17 year old theory
@moonsea if you feel like making poor clicking decisions https://www.blk-archiveofourown . org
@bloodripelives @moonsea were they smart enough to obscure the WHOIS for the domain, or can we prove that these are both owned by the same person?
@Satsuma @bloodripelives i just did a lookup, theres no contact but it's a squarespace domain
@Satsuma @bloodripelives hosted on vercel too, based on the IP tied to the domain, if i did this right https://www.whois.com/whois/216.150.1.1
@bloodripelives @Satsuma @serenadestrong me and @lesbianwangyibo have been trying to dig into the possible data sources but so far all we've come up with is that this is 100% the huggingface data. we're thinking commoncrawl as well. but yeah, no idea whether this is connected to ao3.life person or not, i'm curious about that too
@bloodripelives @serenadestrong @lesbianwangyibo @moonsea the visual interfaces are weirdly similar but for all i know every vibecoded slop site looks like that so *shrugs*
@serenadestrong @moonsea @bloodripelives @lesbianwangyibo fanfic.party does appear to be genuinely unrelated so clearly lots of folks are having bad ideas rn!
@Satsuma man I hadn't looked at fanfic.party and like. obviously I am annoyed about this shit on a community level but on a personal level I wasn't going to bother with trying to get my shit taken down except that that place has all my fic and NONE OF IT HAS PARAGRAPH BREAKS. and NOW I'm pisssedddd 😭
@Satsuma @moonsea @serenadestrong okay so I ASSUMED from the front page of this thing that the concept was like, only importing works fandoms that have a significant black character, or something. which would almost be a reasonable thing to do if anything about a vibecoded fanfiction theft website were reasonable. but. nope. it's literally just the huggingface dataset of ao3 from last year. meaning that the most numerous fandom on it is. harry potter. fucking help me.
also, interestingly, this one was registered very slightly *before* ao3 life. which is certainly not conclusive in any way wrt who made it. it does seem to be different registrars, locations and data sets since this is just the huggingface one and doesn't include all of the other sources that made ao3 life have older/later orphaned etc stuff.
IT'S GETTING FUCKING WEIRD OUT THERE