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life_wo_fanlibA trade website, broadcastnewsroom.com, picked up the press release FanLib issued July 10th (I've been tracking the press release; it bombed).
It's mostly about the new The L Word contest, but Broadcastnewsroom.com put a slightly different spin on it, leading off with Ilene Chaiken of The L Word.
Chaiken says of the contest, "I can't wait to see where the fans take their favorite characters."
Since the fan-written scene is only a tiny snippet of a fictional book written by a fictional character, and the tiny snippet has to be based on a scene from season one or two, I think it is safe to say the fans aren't going to be taking their favorite characters all that far.
Oh, fuck! I just took a peek at OurChart.com, the L Word FanLib site operated by Hilary Rosen. You remember her, right?
There is a section labeled Guestbians. Guestbians. You can't make shit like this up.
We know where bryson went now.
Ah, FanLib. Marketing to lesbians. But not to women.
It's mostly about the new The L Word contest, but Broadcastnewsroom.com put a slightly different spin on it, leading off with Ilene Chaiken of The L Word.
Chaiken says of the contest, "I can't wait to see where the fans take their favorite characters."
Since the fan-written scene is only a tiny snippet of a fictional book written by a fictional character, and the tiny snippet has to be based on a scene from season one or two, I think it is safe to say the fans aren't going to be taking their favorite characters all that far.
Oh, fuck! I just took a peek at OurChart.com, the L Word FanLib site operated by Hilary Rosen. You remember her, right?
There is a section labeled Guestbians. Guestbians. You can't make shit like this up.
We know where bryson went now.
Ah, FanLib. Marketing to lesbians. But not to women.
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Date: 2007-07-28 10:17 am (UTC)I wonder if they've gotten the message that fanfiction draws a primarily female audience.
I did see that ff.net lists their male/female ratio as around 40/60, which is pretty high. I'm wondering how ff.net got those figures. If it's based on what people tell them when they sign up (it's been so long I don't recall what I was asked), well, when I'm asked a survey question for Yahoo! or some online form, I usually give them a fake name, say I'm male (I'm female), a birthdate that has nothing to do with my own, and a random career selected from their list. I usually pick something high tech. ;) They like that.
I would have done the same for ff.net.
A fan survey, now, those I answer honestly bcause I know how they're going to use the information.
I wonder if other people do the same.
Icarus