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If we take fanfiction as indication of how younger people produce and consume content then the effect is that chapters get shorter while books get longer. Of c
by wongarsu 2y ago
If we take fanfiction as indication of how younger people produce and consume content then the effect is that chapters get shorter while books get longer.
Of course take that with a grain of salt because *waves wagely at the statement full of issues*. But it tracks with other trends in social media. Many people will be able to tell you more about their favorite tik-toker than their favorite long-form-content producer. The length of the snippets doesn't dictate the depth of the story
You could even draw a comparison to the rising popularity of series over movies. People now prefer 6 45 minute segments over one 3 hour installment.
- camel-cdr 2y ago> If we take fanfiction as indication of how younger people produce and consume content then the effect is that chapters get shorter while books get longer. Except, that assumption might not be true. To set a baseline I looked at LOR statistics: 62 chapters 1255 pages 381103 words 7759 words/chapter 20 page/chapter Then I looked at the 100 most bookmarked fanfics on AO3 in one of the most popular fandoms (Harry Potter): 218401 average word count 33 average chapters 9435 average words/chapter Now 15 of the 100 fanfics are one-shots with only one chapter, if we exclude those we get the following numbers: 253386 average word count excluding one-shots 39 average chapters excluding one-shots 7544 average words/chapter excluding one-shots For reproduction, I used the following for scraping and processed the data further in vim: lynx -dump 'link to ao3 filter page' | grep -A2 'Words\|Chapters' | tr -d '\n,-' | sed 's/\[[0-9]*\]//g;s/ */ /g;s/Words/\nWords/g'