The pervasive (and growing) influence of fanfiction is destroying all storytelling across all mediums. But what is it about fanfiction that has seeped into mainstream writing? And how has it had such widespread, negative influence?
Link to the essay here on my website with sources and further information.
NOTE: I can’t find the article I read that explicitly stated that Twilight was originally fanfiction. It might have been, it might not have been.
Chapters as they appear on Youtube:
0:00 — Intro
7:00 — Self-Indulgence & the Writer’s Comfort
20:00 — Forming Fanfiction Writers
23:39 — Trigger Warning Universe
26:38 — “Whump”
30:33 — Self-Representation (Self-Inserts)
36:33 — The Smut-pocalypse
46:14 — “BL”
54:05 — Fanfiction as Formation
57:41 — The Decline in Literary Quality
1:05:15 — What to Do About It?
