AO3's Hugo and the Yikes
18 Sep 2019 10:56 amThe Archive of Our Own, an amazing fan-run volunteer project of the Organization for Transformative Works, won a richly-deserved Hugo award recognizing its incredible achievement, and there's been a lot of celebration among AO3 users and volunteers about that. Much of this celebration was tongue-in-cheek and silly.
But that unfortunately confused some very earnest or very gatekeeping World Fantasy Whatsit people, who urgently tasked the AO3 to issue an Important User Bulletin to make sure that everyone understood that the award was for the archive and not for the individuals. The communication people dutifully made this statement, couched in some polite eyebrow-workout language.
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fairestcat posted On pearl-clutching about the above and the ensuing appearance of a doggedly determined mansplainer who went above and beyond by lurking in the comments of said announcement on AO3, continuing to Not Get It and invoke intellectual property in all apparent cringeworthy sincerity.
But that unfortunately confused some very earnest or very gatekeeping World Fantasy Whatsit people, who urgently tasked the AO3 to issue an Important User Bulletin to make sure that everyone understood that the award was for the archive and not for the individuals. The communication people dutifully made this statement, couched in some polite eyebrow-workout language.
fairestcat posted On pearl-clutching about the above and the ensuing appearance of a doggedly determined mansplainer who went above and beyond by lurking in the comments of said announcement on AO3, continuing to Not Get It and invoke intellectual property in all apparent cringeworthy sincerity.
