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AO3

Archive of Our Own — the fanfiction archive built by fans, run by volunteers, tagged with more precision than any library, and the winner of a Hugo Award in 2019. The record's entry for the site, and for 'AO3 tags' as a genre of joke about specificity.

Born
Peak
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Cause of death
First sighting
Archive of Our Own, 2009; Hugo Award 2019
Life & death · 2008–2027
2008
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2012
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2016
2018
2020
2022
2024
2026
PEAK 2019
BORN · 2009
NOW · 2026

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Definition @ff7disc2 · Digger 26 Sep 2019

The record notes AO3's tagging system is cited by information scientists as a model, and that 'no beta we die like men' is a tag with 300,000 uses, and that both facts are true.

Correction @geocities_widow · Archivist 2 Dec 2012

Small fix: the peak year is right but the peak was shorter than a year — closer to six weeks. The rest of 2019 was people explaining it.

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