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Arctic Monkeys' twitter fandom is as clueless as tiktok right now lol
Back from the ashes you will come
Back from the ashes you will grow
AM fandom I want to see your daughters running free...
This brought me back to tumblr
I miss AM so much
Jeunesse Arena, Rio de Janeiro April 3, 2019, By sel_usava
TBHC was released one year ago today! 🧡🖤💛
hey ao3 can you like give the extra $38k you made from this month’s funds drive to charity
You know it legally is a charity, right?
If x charity aims for £10, but gets £15, would you expect then to give back the extra five or give it then to another charity? No. Any extra costs go into the “rainy day” fund; sometimes servers crash or break, sometimes false reports are made that require the legal team, sometimes you need to hire coders or what not to implement new features or fix bugs or deal with broken code …
The money they aimed for is the bare minimum, which goes towards things like basic server costs and domain names and legal advice and so forth, but they don’t just “pocket” the rest (as people claim). It’s not a business. It has no advertisements. It needs some “rainy day” cash to function.
You can’t ask a charity to give money to another charity.
It needs what it gets to function and improve.
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They don’t “pocket” excess money. They have a publicly accessible budget - waaaay more info than most charities, in fact. In it, you can clearly see where each dollar goes. (Also, you are vastly underestimating either how much traffic AO3 gets or how much servers/hosting costs.)
In my experience, people who don’t work in web design and hosting just have no concept of how heavy a load something like AO3 would have. Not only is the traffic absolutely buck wild, but the quantity of data that archive needs to store is fuckoff crazy. I’m talking “more than the library of congress” crazy. The only reason it doesn’t require Netflix levels of data serving is that it’s text based rather than video.
AO3 is in the top 300 websites in the world, and the top 100 in the US. It is the number 2 literature website.
Number 2 in the entire world. JSTOR is 20.
It sees about 6 million people a day. About 250k an hour. Each of those people is loading multiple pages, many are running searches that execute on literally hundreds of potential variables per search. The demands involved are astronomical.
JSTOR, btw, makes 85 million dollars a year.
It’s 18 ranks below AO3′s traffic, and takes in 650 times the amount of money.
But let’s say you think that’s an unfair comparison. Would you say that the Project Gutenberg Literature Archival Group- another text based archive that handles literature operating outside traditional copyright requirements- is more similar?
Because it sees all of 4% of the traffic that AO3 handles.
Care to guess its budget?
Double that of AO3.
AO3 is doing shit on the kind of shoestring budget that I fully, 100% cannot comprehend. And that’s just the archival service.
The 130k also pays for the OTW’s legal team, which they use to defend the right of fandom to fucking exist.
It’s absolutely batshit fucked up that people are fighting to have the OTW defunded and AO3 shut down. They are the only organized group that actually stands directly between fandom- all the art and the fics and the vids and the music and the chats and the memes and everything we love about interactive, transformative work- and an incalculable amount of lawsuits.
The number of people on this blue hellsite who apparently do not understand how nonprofits work is mind-boggling (pro tip: by definition, THEY DON’T MAKE A PROFIT), as is the number of people with no idea about the cost of running something that gets that much traffic.
Good education here for everyone.
yurickgraphs: Alex Turner - @ArcticMonkeys 03.04.2019 🇧🇷 Jeunesse Arena - Río de Janeiro.
Wow, it has been an exciting afternoon today! Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino will be out in about a month from now, 11th of May 2018 ❤ I’m so excited! And the tour is exactly one month away… See you very soon boys! 😍
I normally hate my hyperfocus, cause it normally is geared towards bands and whatnot, but recently it has been work and goodness gracious, I am just so glad
Jeunesse Arena, Rio de Janeiro April 3, 2019, By Alessandra Tolc
now that the tour is over i just wanted to throwback to this beautiful moment back in 2012 when the crowd was so loud that matt took his earpieces off and casually started recording the crowd
Today is the end of TBHC era, it was a damn good one.
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Alex was combing his hair sm, at least twice at each gig, he pulled out a comb.
Thank you Monkeys Sheffield
You have made my life positively better.
Arctic Monkeys in Rio de Janeiro April 3, 2019, By _cesarmesmo