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AO3 curiosity
So with the news about AO3 making TIME's best 50 websites list, I was thinking about how the site is bound to get some tourists wandering through, which made me wonder if there were any stories on the archive that had inflated hit counts from outsider linkage (the way ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sam_storyteller's Trying to Communicate went viral because lolcats).
It doesn't look like it: most of the ten stories with hits over 200,000 are behemoth chaptered fic in popular fandoms that were posted as WIPs.
But then there's a few *complete* outliers, all from SGA fandom: gen fic of mediocre quality and short length, all by different authors. They all have low comment/kudos numbers, except one that has 7500 guest kudos and like five personal kudos, and a truly egregious misspelling in the title.
I am VASTLY curious what happened there.
sam_storyteller's Trying to Communicate went viral because lolcats).It doesn't look like it: most of the ten stories with hits over 200,000 are behemoth chaptered fic in popular fandoms that were posted as WIPs.
But then there's a few *complete* outliers, all from SGA fandom: gen fic of mediocre quality and short length, all by different authors. They all have low comment/kudos numbers, except one that has 7500 guest kudos and like five personal kudos, and a truly egregious misspelling in the title.
I am VASTLY curious what happened there.