AO3 stats memes are one of the best time-wasters, so you should do it. *nods*
Are you sure it's a bug and they didn't just randomly go viral?
I'm pretty confident of that, yes. It was two stories, many years ago, one of which was a drabble for Tom's Midnight Garden and the other a Public Eye fic. If something gets picked up somewhere or recced you usually get a corresponding rise of some kind in kudos and maybe even comments, but these just had suddenly 2000 more hits than anything else so I just discount them from the stats every year since. I think there was a bug that could do that back then.
I expect my Poldark fic is because it's 1975 Poldark, so 2015 fans read it (because it was the first Ross/Demelza fic in existence and naturally got lots of hits and kudos when the series came back and people looked for fic and mine was the only one) but no doubt feel weird about commenting because of it being slightly different versions. And also it's a random AU where they become immortal off a randomiser prompt. I just think that at this point they should stop looking at it now they have loads of 2015 fic that aren't weird immortality AUs about Angharad Rees and Robin Ellis, or if they insist, it's about time one of them commented! I would totally appreciate a comment that told me how weird it is! Just... talk to me.
(Talking of which the other day someone stopped by to tell me they were marking a crossover I'd written for later even though they didn't like the character from the fandom they did know or like the other fandom, but it was so odd they impressed and would have to read it. I'm not sure if I want to hear what they thought when and if they eventually do or not... XD)
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Are you sure it's a bug and they didn't just randomly go viral?
I'm pretty confident of that, yes. It was two stories, many years ago, one of which was a drabble for Tom's Midnight Garden and the other a Public Eye fic. If something gets picked up somewhere or recced you usually get a corresponding rise of some kind in kudos and maybe even comments, but these just had suddenly 2000 more hits than anything else so I just discount them from the stats every year since. I think there was a bug that could do that back then.
I expect my Poldark fic is because it's 1975 Poldark, so 2015 fans read it (because it was the first Ross/Demelza fic in existence and naturally got lots of hits and kudos when the series came back and people looked for fic and mine was the only one) but no doubt feel weird about commenting because of it being slightly different versions. And also it's a random AU where they become immortal off a randomiser prompt. I just think that at this point they should stop looking at it now they have loads of 2015 fic that aren't weird immortality AUs about Angharad Rees and Robin Ellis, or if they insist, it's about time one of them commented! I would totally appreciate a comment that told me how weird it is! Just... talk to me.
(Talking of which the other day someone stopped by to tell me they were marking a crossover I'd written for later even though they didn't like the character from the fandom they did know or like the other fandom, but it was so odd they impressed and would have to read it. I'm not sure if I want to hear what they thought when and if they eventually do or not... XD)