Florentina:
@ autumn iris
Yeah I heard some of those things. And I don't care. You don't fine or imprison anyone for writing a fanfic or for writing danmei novels. This isn't the 1500s.
If you cannot support fanfic then say so but don't advocate for people to go to jail smh. Bad look on you. And I thought you were a good person on the forums.
And if I say I wrote an YiZhan fic myself then in your eyes I deserve jail? Be so fucking for real right now. You are a bad person. Evil.
Never feel like a good person. I live as I like. I'm good whenever I want, I'm bad whenever I want. I say whatever I want. It's just that I'm a bit of people pleaser, try to change it but never been able to.
You shouldn't do/support fanfics, it's harmful! I don't know how far people go while doing fanfics, but there's so many names in the world people can use. Why should people do fanfics? Pretty sure that's for the reason I mentioned above. It's for either traffic or money. So yes, fine is good (giving back to the government and society) and if it's causing harm, jail time could be one way to reflect. Even people who posted defamation comments online could face fine and jail time (but sometimes it's just a public apology), why can't people who make fiction using real persons as the characters be fined or jailed? If there's no penalty, it'll keep happening. And if it keeps happening; the actors, the original writers, a lot of people involves and maybe even the readers and the fans will suffer. When Xiao Zhan went on hiatus, who's being sad? He's gone for years. Isn't that sad? When a fine drama set to be filmed got cancelled, who's being sad? They don't even have another 2026 project being set as a replacement. (Eh maybe Peach and Me is that another project.) Isn't that sad? Does The Untamed's original IP writer's other works' censored adaptations ever see the light? I think they'll be shelved forever. Isn't that sad?
A friend of mine was an ARMY and she told me she read fanfics about the members (years ago). Do you know what the fanfics writer did? Making BL and reverse harem (include a girl group member). And I'm the one who's bad you said? Surely they never write 'any resemblance to real life persons and occasions are coincidental?' Never, because it's all intentional.
autumn iris:
Never, because it's all intentional.
Your English is bad too btw. I read BTS fanfics too, a while ago. BL and on one occasion a straight one. They were alright, some are even works of art. You're the problem. Jail time for autumn iris.
Stop replying. There's no redeeming you. You're evil. You're never good btw, you just pretend.
I'll report this thread.
You shouldn't do/support fanfics, it's harmful!
Please distinguish between fanfiction as a whole and Real Person fiction ("RPF").
And I'd even go a step further: please distinguish between Real Person Fiction of living people and of dead people.
They are not the same.
Fanfiction has existed since people tell each other stories. What else is "Dragon Ball" but a fanfic of "Journey to the West"?
Real Person Fiction of Dead People has also existed for centuries -- what else are what we now consider myths and legends but tellings and re-tellings of a real person's life? And movies based on real stories, like the recent "Oppenheimer"? Fanfiction, basically.
Real Person Fiction of Living People Without Their Consent -- that's where things start to get questionable, because as the author, you'll infringe on their personality rights. The person in question can go after the writer, just as they could do with defamation posts -- but it's not the duty of a government to "regulate" every kind of fiction, just because some egotistical fools can't see the difference between fanfiction of a, well, fictional work and fiction of a real, living and breathing person.
And if there are fools who can't see the difference between an actor and the character they played, and mix up the fictional work and the actors -- well, that's on them.
In short:
Fanfic about "A Dog and a Plane"? Yes!
Fanfic about New and Tay? No.
Thinking a fanfic about "A Dog and a Plane" is about New and Tay? No!
And is the latter the author's problem? Of course not, it's on the reader.
Why should people do fanfics? Pretty sure that's for the reason I mentioned above. It's for either traffic or money.
That's a very misanthropic take.
I know more than a few fanfic writers personally. They do it for the joy of writing. For the love of the original work. For themselves, because it makes them happy.
If they didn't, they'd never write for small fandoms at all.
Actually, as soon as you make money off it, fanfiction does cross the line into plagiarism, and the original authors can legally do something about it. That's why the Archive of Our Own doesn't even allow authors to link to Ko-Fi or Patreon pages.
And if an author wants to make money later, just "filing off the serial number" (i.e. changing names) doesn't always work. It did for what then became "Fifty Shades of Grey", but not for all of them. For the newer issue of the project you mention, it's more complex -- because it involves Real Person Fiction -- made worse because it was RPF of a person, whose fandom had already lived through the fallout of a RPF fic. Had it simply been a fanfic of a random fictional work, the whole thing would likely have been a non-issue.
So, please don’t generalise, and please don’t accuse others of having malicious intent when the matter is much more nuanced.
