Top 10 AO3 hit counts meme from greedy_dancer
Psychophysical Examinations of Perceptual Effects of Differential Somatic Stimulation (or: Fuck Off And Leave My Bloody Balls Alone, Would You, Sherlock?): 5904 hits. Sherlock fandom is... really big. o.o
Sex Scenes Your New Boyfriend's Too Vanilla To Read About: 2834 hits. Most of those were probably people doing a search for a tag, scrolling down, and going "WHOA, THAT IS A LOT OF KINKY TAGS. What the crap IS this?"
sing it for the n00bs: 1647 hits. I believe this is the most hits of any RBB fic posted on AO3, which is incomprehensible to me because RBB had some seriously amazing fics.
Sugar Daddy (We're Goin' Down): 734 hits. Fake boyfriends + high school AU + age difference = clickthroughs.
Two Industrial Loads On Hot: 630 hits. No idea why this one is up there on hit count.
This Anus Scene, It's An Arms Race: 605 hits. Porn studio AU, not surprising people would be interested.
Thank You For The Music: 564 hits. Slave AU--another trope that tends to attract people.
GSA (Stands For Get Some Ass): 518 hits. High school douchebag fic--again, a popular trope.
Most Likely To Succeed: 466 hits. I cannot react to this fic's relative popularity with anything but endless lol. Gerard/Spencer, people. Gerard. Slash. SPENCER. XD
Testosterone Girls & Harlequin Boys: 461 hits. I'm actually surprised to see this in the top ten--it didn't feel like it got much of a reaction at the time, and one of the main pairings is f/f, which is never much good for hit counts. But prisonfic, which. Trope.
Upshot: to get more hits on AO3, I should be writing more tropefic, massively kinky fic, and Sherlock. Well, uh, I'm pretty sure I'll never stop writing kink!
This entry was originally posted at http://jedusaur.dreamwidth.org/59180.html.
Sex Scenes Your New Boyfriend's Too Vanilla To Read About: 2834 hits. Most of those were probably people doing a search for a tag, scrolling down, and going "WHOA, THAT IS A LOT OF KINKY TAGS. What the crap IS this?"
sing it for the n00bs: 1647 hits. I believe this is the most hits of any RBB fic posted on AO3, which is incomprehensible to me because RBB had some seriously amazing fics.
Sugar Daddy (We're Goin' Down): 734 hits. Fake boyfriends + high school AU + age difference = clickthroughs.
Two Industrial Loads On Hot: 630 hits. No idea why this one is up there on hit count.
This Anus Scene, It's An Arms Race: 605 hits. Porn studio AU, not surprising people would be interested.
Thank You For The Music: 564 hits. Slave AU--another trope that tends to attract people.
GSA (Stands For Get Some Ass): 518 hits. High school douchebag fic--again, a popular trope.
Most Likely To Succeed: 466 hits. I cannot react to this fic's relative popularity with anything but endless lol. Gerard/Spencer, people. Gerard. Slash. SPENCER. XD
Testosterone Girls & Harlequin Boys: 461 hits. I'm actually surprised to see this in the top ten--it didn't feel like it got much of a reaction at the time, and one of the main pairings is f/f, which is never much good for hit counts. But prisonfic, which. Trope.
Upshot: to get more hits on AO3, I should be writing more tropefic, massively kinky fic, and Sherlock. Well, uh, I'm pretty sure I'll never stop writing kink!
This entry was originally posted at http://jedusaur.dreamwidth.org/59180.html.