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i just saw someone getting paid to write (not very good) fanfic. as in, commissions. something like $7 per 500 words. they couldn't keep their tenses straight within the same sentence, and i didn't exactly notice any originality in stuff like the description (which was in the "halfway description, halfway writing down my headcanon" method that seems to be extremely popular right now).
i'm just like.... ok, i know people get paid for fanart. theoretically you shouldn't be earning any money on that, but you definitely shouldn't be earning a LIVING off it. as soon as people start doing so, and certain people and companies notice, they'll start cracking down on everything. we might stop having FFN and AO3 and Pixiv. or, you know, you might get in trouble due to copyright law or something. japanese fandom people will hate westerners even more, etc. but that's not my biggest issue really.... it's just that people are actually paying people to write this stuff. something i don't exactly read and think "wow, that was well-written" and "that plot is interesting" etc. and no one's gonna pay ME to write fanfic either.....
i'm just like.... ok, i know people get paid for fanart. theoretically you shouldn't be earning any money on that, but you definitely shouldn't be earning a LIVING off it. as soon as people start doing so, and certain people and companies notice, they'll start cracking down on everything. we might stop having FFN and AO3 and Pixiv. or, you know, you might get in trouble due to copyright law or something. japanese fandom people will hate westerners even more, etc. but that's not my biggest issue really.... it's just that people are actually paying people to write this stuff. something i don't exactly read and think "wow, that was well-written" and "that plot is interesting" etc. and no one's gonna pay ME to write fanfic either.....