HP fandom stats from an expert--we're still going strong!

[snowgall]

Hey guys, check out this awesome stats post by fffinnagain on fandomstats: Harry Potter Fandom on AO3, Example Analysis

Takeaway: Reports of HP fandom death have been greatly exaggerated :)

Comments

[nia_kantorka]

Thank you for sharing! I would have missed all the great data of HP fandom without your post. :D

[birdsofshore]

Ugh, I feel dim but I need some explanation of this. It looks pretty! And exciting! But I don't really get it....

[snowgall]

Yeah, I'm not going to claim I completely get it myself (I need to sit and think about it carefully for a bit first). But a little context in case it helps:

I was engaging fffinnagain in a discussion of fandom stats in another forum, and they pointed me to an analysis they had done for Sherlock. I said, cool, can you do that for HP? Their reply was " I've been thinking it would be really interesting to do the same kind of things for Harry Potter, though I don't know how people would feel about having the fandom's decay plotted out."

And I was like, dude, I don't think HP is in decay. So they took me up on the challenge and produced the graphs I linked to. So even if you don't get all the math (and I'm not certain I do either yet) you can just compare the Sherlock creator wave graph with the one I posted above for HP and you can see that the activity for HP keeps increasing at the right edge while the Sherlock one is shrinking a bit more. So as for that one comparison, we're doing pretty well :)

[birdsofshore]

Thanks again, I read the actual post now and I think I get it a bit more.

I was like, dude, I don't think HP is in decay.

LOLOL and :DDD

[pir8fancier]

:D