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Didn't Fifty Shades of Grey start out as a Twilight fanfic?

• tialaramex 3y ago
  Yes, interestingly it's not even notably good fan fic. So this suggests that there was an underserved audience. That is to say there were a lot of people (mostly women, statistically) who wanted to read about this messed up romance where the very rich guy with mummy issues treats our heroine poorly and she's ok with that because of the money. In some larger cultural sense that's not great, but nobody else was writing the stories they wanted to read.