The Internet Forgot What Fiction Is — A Deep Dive

Fanfiction used to be fun.
Messy. Chaotic. Full of unhinged creativity.
Then Tumblr happened.
In this 15-minute deep dive, I break down how Tumblr culture reshaped the entire online writing world—from fanfiction tagging drama to purity culture, content warnings, moral policing, BookTok discourse, and even how major publishers approach “sensitive” themes today.
We’re talking:
⭐ The migration from LiveJournal → Tumblr
⭐ How Tumblr rewired fandom with moral purity tests
⭐ Problematic vs. unproblematic ships
⭐ The rise of tagging-as-moral-performance
⭐ How content warnings replaced self-responsibility
⭐ How all of this bled into BookTok, Twitter, indie publishing, and trad publishing
⭐ Why writers now fear being “problematic”
⭐ And how the internet forgot what fiction even is
If you’ve ever been yelled at for forgetting a tag… this video is for you.
Let’s talk about how fanfiction culture got here—
and how we can get creativity back.
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