The great unknown

[elz]

Fanfiction.net has sorting and filtering on their fandom pages now! They may have for a while and I just hadn't noticed. But I love me some numbers.


the top 30 tv show fandoms on ff.net

1. Buffy: The Vampire Slayer (38,388)
2. Supernatural (34,899)
3. CSI (24,556)
4. Stargate: SG-1 (22,523)
5. Doctor Who (19,399)
6. NCIS (18,174)
7. House, M.D. (17,423)
8. Stargate: Atlantis (15,639)
9. Gilmore Girls (15,117)
10. Bones (12,491)
11. One Tree Hill (12,114)
12. Charmed (11,567)
13. Power Rangers (11,189)
14. Smallville (11,162)
15. Hannah Montana (10,868)
16. CSI: New York (8,911)
17. Lost (8,879)
18. Angel (8,500)
19. X-Files (8,374)
20. Grey's Anatomy (8,299)
21. Law and Order: SVU (8,078)
22. Torchwood (7,509)
23. Criminal Minds (6,487)
24. O.C. (6,415)
25. Dark Angel (6,306)
26. Heroes (6,200)
27. StarTrek: Voyager (6,196)
28. Degrassi (5,977)
29. CSI: Miami (5,694)
30. General Hospital (5,638)

the top 15 fandoms from all categories

1. Harry Potter (451,278)
2. Naruto (232,685)
3. Twilight (141,289)
4. Inuyasha (92,849)
5. Kingdom Hearts (51,513)
6. Yu-Gi-Oh (51,292)
7. Lord of the Rings (43,132)
8. Gundam Wing/AC (40,356)
9. Bleach (39,478)
10. Buffy: The Vampire Slayer (38,388)
11. Supernatural (34,899)
12. Digimon (33,255)
13. Dragon Ball Z (31,977)
14. Sailor Moon (31,851)
15. Fullmetal Alchemist (30,995)

It's easy to assume that fandoms we don't see don't exist; it's good to examine that periodically.

(I was reading the comments to a post about television shows that pass the Bechdel Test, and there is so much awesome there and so much I agree with, but Gilmore Girls isn't a show I'd tag as having a small fandom or insufficient fannish love - the TWOP GG forums were a scary place. And I know that because I was there, but there are a lot of other fandoms that exist on my periphery - do I think of Power Rangers or One Tree Hill as big fandoms? Do I even really know what Kingdom Hearts is?)

Comments

[zellieh]

I know it's hard to give tone via text, so I'm not trying to be rude. I agree with you that stats are fascinating, but I would like to know more of the context of these numbers so I can understand them better.

Can you tell me these numbers are for? Are they stories, authors, pageviews? Are they numbers for just today, or over time, i.e. since the first fandom thing appeared on ff.net? (Which would give older fandoms an advantage over younger ones.) And why are there two lists? Why are some fandoms on both lists?

This may be clear to people who use FF net more than I do, so I'm sorry if I'm asking obvious questions. ::g::

[elz]

Having the explanations in the cut tags doesn't work very well when something gets linked to externally, does it? *g* They're story counts - the first list is the most active TV fandoms and the second list is the most active fandoms overall.

And they're the current cumulative totals, yeah. I imagine it will be quite some time before anything knocks Harry Potter off the top of the list.

[zellieh]

"Having the explanations in the cut tags doesn't work very well when something gets linked to externally, does it? *g*" -- Aha! I see the problem now. ::g::

Thanks for explaining that! ::re-reads::

Ah, Harry Potter. I wonder if anything will ever beat that fandom?