Fandom Etiquette 101
If you don't like a fic, don't read it. Don't hate read it, don't bookmark it to write hateful comment in the bookmark description, don't leave hateful comments, don't post hateful reviews online (tiktok, goodread*, tumblr...), don't bully the author, don't go ruin someone else's experience, don't hate people that like that fic...
Just leave the fic, and if you don't like the author's work in general, you can mute the author so as to not have them anymore in your research result on AO3, you can also use the filter on Ao3 to set what you want and do not want to read. If you hate a fic because it has Jegulus and PandaLily instead of Jily, BakuDeku instead of IzuOcha, Wenclair instead of Wyler, or whatever are the ships you hate for your OTP, then filter out the ship!
Because you are not entitled to anything from the author. They write because they like it, they write because it's a hobby, because it's bring them joy, because it's cathartic. They don't gain anything by writing. They don't gain money, authors that are "famous" are a very small minority. And just because they are well known, doesn't make you entitled to anything. They are still human. Think Zar, Crimson Rivers author. They were gone for so long atp because of the pressure.
We write because we want to. Not because we HAVE to. fanfictions are not professional books, most of them are not even edited by the author, less are beta-ed by someone else. By being hateful and having high expectancy, by demanding high quality texts, you are driving away people that find true joy by sharing writings that can be really personal. Writings that they are sharing because they want to.
A fic that you hate is someone else's favourite fic that they read every night before going to sleep. And the contrary exist.
*DO NOT put a fic on Goodread either!!
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