seriously?

[rhodanum]

Know that feel when you're in a tiny fandom and you get excited for every new fic, only to be disappointed in plenty of cases? (No commentary on the quality of the fics, just my own personal tastes). Well, take that and multiply it by about a factor of ten, because I just found someone whose 'new fic' is nothing but a word-for-word reupload of the English-translated version of one of the Chinese BL novels that have been very popular lately. To make matters worse, it was posted in a fandom that has absolutely nothing to do with Chinese BL!

I'd probably be less annoyed if I hadn't set up a RSS feed reader for my small fandoms, to be immediately notified of new fics. The only reason I missed this one and only saw it now, while scrolling back, is because it got posted on the same day as my birthday party, two weeks ago. My reaction can be summarized as "this fandom gets fic once in a blue moon and you post this?"

Sent a report to the AO3 Abuse team. Particularly when the translation team even asked that people not re-post / re-upload their translations onto other sites.

Comments

[yvannairie]

Jeez, what the hell?

[rhodanum]

Very good question. I normally associate this kind of nonsense with FFN, rather than AO3 so it's disappointing to see it's spread here as well.

Let's see what the Abuse team does.

[stardust_rifle]

This is just...bewildering? Like, why would you do this? I've seen people peddling streams of football games and weird weight-loss nostrums, but a translation of a danmei novel? In a small fandom that has nothing to do with BL? When the translations are available for free, online?

I mean, they seem like a real person, but...?

[rhodanum]

The only even remotely similar thing I saw on AO3 was someone replacing their fic with the entire Bee Movie script -- but that was the actual author doing it to their own fic, as a way to protest how horribly a certain fandom had treated them. Rather than some rando posting a translated novel, in a category that has no connection to it.

[stardust_rifle]

I mean, I once saw someone peddling dubiously-legal streams of American football games in the X Japan tag on Ao3 (and about twelve other tagged fandoms, I remember Teen Wolf being in there), but at least that made some kind of sense. There was some kind of hypothetical monetary gain to that whole situation.

[rhodanum]

Yeah, I remember seeing spam for some random products, at one point, also in all sorts of odd fandoms. Definitely nothing like this, with no clear motivation beyond (I presume) "I'm such an uber-fan that I'll post the text of my favorite canon everywhere!"