The AO3 Stats

[the-ao3-stats]

just another ao3 stats blog ✨

feel free to request any sort of specific stats you're curious about!

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Average total AO3 stats

Inspired by various posts showcasing people's stats, I wanted to get a base average for user stats. If you wish to contribute, please fill in the following form!

Average total AO3 stats

This form intends to gather data in order to establish the baseline of what are the overall stats for the average AO3 writer. If you wish to

The data obtained will be fully anonymous and only used as a part of a whole dataset. If you know someone who would be interested in filling it in, feel free to share it around! Thank you <3

[the-ao3-stats]

i've gotten a decent amount of responses, so i'm going to start crunching the numbers soon; last chance to have your stats included!

[the-ao3-stats]

in the face of some comments on the latest survey post, i'd just like to say: yes, your statistics page DOES count private bookmarks. that's the whole point why i ask for the data from your statistics page, which ONLY YOU, THE AUTHOR has access to.

also, works you've put on anon are also counted in your stats tab; works you've orphaned/deleted aren't

i feel like some people either have a misinformed idea of how the statistics page work, or are thinking of something else entirely 😔

[the-ao3-stats]

Average total AO3 stats

Inspired by various posts showcasing people's stats, I wanted to get a base average for user stats. If you wish to contribute, please fill in the following form!

Average total AO3 stats

This form intends to gather data in order to establish the baseline of what are the overall stats for the average AO3 writer. If you wish to

The data obtained will be fully anonymous and only used as a part of a whole dataset. If you know someone who would be interested in filling it in, feel free to share it around! Thank you <3

[the-ao3-stats]

still cleaning up the data for what i actually gathered it for, but it looks like october this year had the most fics posted on ao3 in any given month BY FAR

(also it's pretty funny how you can see when october hits practically every year xD)

[naryrising]

A claim I often see sensible people make is that AO3 is not representative of fandom as a whole. And I agree with this! I think that fandom encompasses a lot of different groups and AO3 is merely one segment of a much broader spectrum of fannish activity. Lots of fandom activity doesn't revolve around fanfiction at all, and even in the segments of fandom where it does, not all fanfiction is on AO3. People like to generalize about fandom based on AO3, partly because it's what they are personally most familiar with, and partly because AO3 makes it very easy to see stats, while other sites often obscure that information or don't make it available at all. If you see a claim that "fandom always prefers M/M ships" for instance, that's a claim based on someone looking at AO3 and no further, and it's therefore an inaccurate (or at the very least, unproven) claim.

So, I have no desire to push back against the notion that AO3 isn't representative of all of fandom. I think that it's correct! But it often goes hand-in-hand with another claim that I do want to question. That is the claim that not only is AO3 not representative of fandom more broadly, but that it is in fact the smallest of the 'big 3' fanfic sites (the other two being fanfiction.net and wattpad).

This used to be true! But I don't think it's true anymore. I think in terms of number of posted works, it probably falls in between the two, and in terms of traffic, it's probably the biggest.

Now, I will say up front that I have absolutely no way to determine how many of wattpad's works are fanfiction. I have no REAL way to determine how many works there are on wattpad at all, because they don't make this information available anywhere that I can find. Googling for 'how many stories are there on wattpad' gets claims of 665 million works. It might be true, I have no way to prove or disprove it. It sounds like a lot to me, but who knows. (For instance, it actually says '665 million uploads' but how many of those are later deleted?) But even if that number is accurate for the site, a lot of what is on wattpad is original fiction. So trying to guess how much of that alleged total is fanfic is pretty impossible. If someone has an idea, feel free to try it and see how that goes, and let me know!

But fanfiction.net, while it doesn't make it easy to get overall numbers for the entire site, does at least provide numbers for works per category, like this:

These numbers are, to be clear, inaccurate. If you click through to the fandom, you will see a much lower number - sometimes as low as half the displayed number on the category page. For instance, if you open the Supernatural page, there are 96.2K stories listed, not 127K. You might say, ah, but Nary, fanfic.net also includes crossovers separately from the other fics in a fandom, and maybe those totals include the crossovers! They might, but the numbers still don't add up even when crossovers are included (I spot checked this across several fandoms to be sure). I can only assume that the 127K number is something like 'all Supernatural works ever posted, including ones that later got deleted'. It certainly doesn't represent the current actual total of works available in that fandom.

So to get somewhat more accurate numbers, you have to look at each fandom's individual page. Today (November 16, 2025) I did this for the top 100 fandoms in each category (Anime/Manga, Books, Cartoons, Comics, Games, Misc, Movies, Plays, TV) with the following exceptions: in Comics, Plays, and Misc there weren't 100 fandoms to go through, or before I got to 100 I was down into very small numbers of works, like double digits. In those cases, I stopped before reaching 100 fandoms because I didn't feel like counting up a lot of fandoms with ~50 works. In TV, conversely, there was a longer tail of fandoms with ~2000 or so works, so I kept going up to 150 fandoms to capture most of those.

I added up the totals for each set of top fandoms, and then the totals across the board. I got 5,553,596 works.

This is certainly leaving out a lot of works - a ton of fandoms that have triple digit or lower counts of works wouldn't have been counted by this method. I'm not claiming this is the accurate total of works on ff.net - just that this method covers the big fandoms there.

AO3, as of today (November 16, 2025), has 16,260,000 works. I do believe this is a relatively accurate number reflecting works currently actually available on the site (obviously it's rounded but other than that).

I think there's no way that fanfiction.net has 10 million more works that I didn't count using my quick and dirty method. I think that sometime in the last several years, AO3 passed it in terms of number of works on the site. Again, I can't compare it to wattpad, but that would put AO3 at least in the middle of the three sites, not at the bottom.

And then there's traffic, which is another measure of what people can mean when they talk about 'how big' a site is. And here, I think it can be shown that AO3 is far in the lead of the other two. This data was taken from similarweb, a service that compares website traffic (and other things, but traffic is what I'm interested in here).

This is a comparison with what similarweb thinks are the websites most like AO3 - it correctly figures it's closest to fanfiction.net and wattpad.com (and tvtropes which is interesting, if not really relevant here). The traffic to each site over the last 3 months (August 2025-October 2025) shows AO3 with over 2x the traffic of wattpad, and 7x the traffic of fanfiction.net.

Wattpad still has more unique visitors, according to the further breakdown of info similarweb provides on engagement.

AO3 has nearly double Wattpad's page views, however, and nearly 10x as many page views as fanfiction.net.

I don't know how really useful this is, but I wanted to share it so that people who like to think about fandom stats can take it under consideration (or tell me I'm wrong if they see a mistake I made!) and so that more generally, we can consider reframing our view of AO3's relative size and popularity compared to other big fanfic sites, so (especially those of us who have been around AO3 for a comparatively long time) aren't still operating under our impressions of what things were like 5-10 years ago.

Hope you enjoyed, let me know if this is helpful at all, or if you can think of things I overlooked!

[zz9pzza]

We see from our metrics that we do about 3.3 billion page views a month. With Sunday's hitting about 120million page views a day.

[destinationtoast]

Thanks, both of you, for these really interesting numbers! <3

@naryrising I concur about Fanfiction.net vs. AO3. There's a Fanfiction.net search hack that I think (but have not verified) probably returns most of the results on the site. Using this hack, I'm currently getting nearly 8.2M results for Fanfiction.net, which is just over half the size of AO3. It could also be an overestimate; I don't know whether some deleted works are still being counted in that total. But between this and the numbers you gave above by surveying the biggest fandoms, I would agree that it seems quite likely that AO3 is bigger than fanfiction.net.

And according to a search I just did on their site, Wattpad.com has a total of 704 Fanfiction stories:

😂😂😂🤦🤦🤦 Wattpad's native search is worse than useless!

I tried to estimate the size of Wattpad, FFN, and AO3 back in 2018 based on sampling a bunch fanworks and extrapolating. A few highlights:

The numbers Wattpad gives publicly about number of uploads are almost certainly number of chapters, not number of stories (and chapters on that platform tend to be quite short and numerous).

In Nov 2018, I estimated that Wattpad might have around 8M fanfics and seeemed to be growing fast. I thought at that time it was probably bigger than and growing faster than both other sites. (It also had a bigger spam problem, though.) I had to do a lot of guessing, so my confidence was relatively low.

In Nov 2018, I estimated 7.7M for Fanfiction.net -- which would mean it hasn't grown much since then; that's consistent with the trends at the time that showed it slowing down a lot.

Based on the sizes and growth trends I saw then, I would not be at all surprised if Wattpad (still) has more fanfic than AO3. But I also don't think the number of stories is anywhere close to those huge numbers of uploads that they've officially given. But also, their search basically doesn't work at all, so there's a lot of guesswork.

Re traffic, I do wonder whether SEO tools more substantially underestimate Wattpad traffic than AO3 traffic because Wattpad has an app. (I assume a lot of AO3 visitors also go directly to AO3 rather than clicking through from search results, but if you're in an app there's not even a chance that you'll accidentally search for "wattpad" rather than going to the site directly.) But even if Wattpad traffic is probably more underestimated, AO3 gets 3.3B pageviews/month of actual traffic, which is enormous!

So I think your overall point stands. regardless of the size of Wattpad: AO3 is hardly the scrappy underdog among the biggest fanfic sites, these days! :)

I also really appreciated your thoughtful intro about all the people saying that AO3 is not representative of all of fandom, as someone who makes such statements. :) I started making caveats about my own analyses when AO3 was much tinier, when it was obvious that it was a tiny subset of fannish activity. I still think it's probably true that there's a huge amount of variation between fannish activity the various platforms (both for the reasons you mentioned, and based on my own experience -- I haven't done any big comparisons since 2019, but I always saw large differences when I compared platforms). There's also a huge amount of variation in fannish experiences between different fandoms and sometimes between different ships. It's worth remembering that when doing any analysis, and being very cautious about overgeneralizing. But it's also worth noting when drawing data from AO3 that AO3 does capture a very large amount of fanfic-related fandom attention these days, and we shouldn't dismiss it as just a weird outlier!

Anyway, thanks for the data dive & thoughtful writeup!

[ao3-anonymous]

Fastest Growing Fandoms on AO3 This Week (09/16/2025)

Every week I pull data on how many fics are in each fandom and compare to the previous week, then calculate the percentage increase to determine fastest growing fandoms.  Since this naturally skews towards smaller fandoms, I have included the same data filtered to Over 1k, 5k, & 10k fics.

Overall:

Over 1,000 Fics:

Over 5,000 Fics:

Over 10,000 Fics:

Source: AO3 Fandom Dashboard

[ao3statss]

I am obviously about to comment on it but just saw a wenclair fic @safics-with-0-comments spreadsheet with 251 kudos and not single comment and that's genuinely insane. Sorry it is.

And exactly what all of us have been going on about.

[safics-with-0-comments]

Yup!!! Leave comments, please!

[nomorezerocomments]

ive seen fics with as many as 350 kudos with no comments. pre-2020 too, so you cant even use the "covid ruined fandom" excuse

[the-ao3-stats]

interesting thing with high-kudosed commentless fics is that some have comments disabled! there's no easy way to tell before clicking on the fic, but when sorting commentless fics by kudoes, you have to go down to the 36th one before you find the first one you even could comment on (and even that one is moderated)

i've done some random sampling and it seems that the vast majority of commentless fics above 600 kudos either doesn't allow comments or moderates them (so they won't show up until the author approves them). In other words - it was only around page 30 of results where regular commenting started being more common

it's not really an issue and nothing can be done about it, but it definitely startled me the first time i saw works with thousands of kudos and no comments on them 😂

[the-ao3-stats]

Poor Little Meow Meow: Who Are The Sad Wet Cats of AO3

There are twenty characters with canonized tags declaring them "Sad Wet Cats"; Here's the list in descending order of usage!

Pomni Acts Like a Sad Wet Cat: ( 136 works)

Dream of the Endless Acts Like a Sad Wet Cat: ( 70 works)

Ángel Missael Castañeda Vega Acts Like a Sad Wet Cat: ( 70 works)

Wilbur Soot Acts Like a Sad Wet Cat: ( 53 works)

Bruce Wayne Acts Like a Sad Wet Cat: ( 37 works)

Wang Yixiang | Nicholas Acts Like a Sad Wet Cat: ( 35 works)

Technoblade Acts Like a Sad Wet Cat: ( 35 works)

Aoyagi Touya Acts Like a Sad Wet Cat: ( 31 works)

Alhaitham Acts Like a Sad Wet Cat: ( 17 works)

Yoisaki Kanade Acts Like a Sad Wet Cat: ( 14 works)

Clorinde Acts Like a Sad Wet Cat: ( 9 works)

Kamishiro Rui Acts Like a Sad Wet Cat: ( 8 works)

Neuvillette Acts Like a Sad Wet Cat: ( 8 works)

Shinonome Akito Acts Like a Sad Wet Cat: ( 8 works)

Branzy Acts Like A Sad Wet Cat: ( 7 works)

EthosLab Acts Like a Sad Wet Cat: ( 6 works)

Celine Acts Like a Sad Wet Cat: ( 4 works)

Solas Acts Like a Sad Wet Cat: ( 4 works)

Tim Drake Acts Like a Sad Wet Cat: ( 4 works)

TommyInnit Acts Like A Sad Wet Cat: ( 3 works)

[the-ao3-stats]

Sifting Through The Tags (1)

AO3 tags bring forth a wealth of enjoyment (which blogs like @ao3screenshots @ao3screenshotss and @dear-ao3 certainly show) so I've decided to have a look through the last-canonized freeforms to see what's hiding in there!

These are by no means all recently canonized tags, merely those I found in some way entertaining

Steve Rogers Never Becomes Captain America (7 works) - it's interesting how it took until now to get it canonized, despite the oldest work being dated at 2015!

Bad Parent Van Hohenheim (12 works) and Parent Van Hohenheim (17 works)

Don't Forget 03 Oct 11 (52 works) - I find it a bit ironic that it had been canonized sometime in September

No Spoilers for Game: Hollow Knight: Silksong (6 works) - A very vital tag to have /genuine

Pianist Uchiha Sasuke (4 works) - no notes

H. P. Lovecraft Is Rolling In Their Grave (10 works) and I'm Not Sorry H. P. Lovecraft (4 works)

A couple dozen tags earlier, the tag I'm Sorry H. P. Lovecraft (5 works) has also been canonized

Celine Acts Like a Sad Wet Cat (4 works) [😂 there are currently 20 such tags canonized with various characters and i will be making a post listing them all right after this one]

The Honmoon Ships It (6 works)

Inappropriate Use of the Honmoon (12 works)

[the-ao3-stats]

Chicken Or The Egg? - This Is How It Started

(this is mostly caused because i misclicked when sorting some tags and i decided to go down this rabbit hole 🥰)

The Oldest Works

AO3 has been created in October 2008 and entered open beta in November 2009 - so then, why are some works dated as being older than that? The reason is that AO3 is, as the name says, an archive, which allows users to backdate their works. That would make finding out the oldest works difficult - if it weren't for the fact that each work is numbered in the url, in ascending order.

The oldest work, which would have had the number 1 is unavailable - likely due to being deleted or the number having been used up for a test - but we do have the others!

(2) All You Had to Do Was Ask by Élizabeth (watersword) Fandoms: Dead Poet's Society (1989) 13 Sep 2008

(3) Analysis of the Obvious by Élizabeth (watersword) Fandoms: Lord of the Rings RPF   13 Sep 2008

(5) Dense Like Chocolate Cake by Ice is Blue (ice_is_blue) Fandoms: Yami No Matsuei   13 Sep 2008

(6) Dedication by Ice is Blue (ice_is_blue) Fandoms: Gravitation (Anime) 13 Sep 2008

(7) Dedication by Ice is Blue (ice_is_blue) Fandoms: Gravitation (Anime) 13 Sep 2008

(8) His Place In the Universe by Ice is Blue (ice_is_blue) Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender 13 Sep 2008

(9) Life With Terrans (Five Things Ronon Notices) by Kass Fandoms: Stargate Atlantis   13 Sep 2008

(11) Are You Happy Now? by Kass Fandoms: Stargate Atlantis   13 Sep 2008

(13) An Ordinary Grown-Up Lady by Élizabeth (watersword) Fandoms: Chronicles of Narnia   13 Sep 2008

(15) Written by the Victors by Speranza Fandoms: Stargate Atlantis 05 Sep 2007 <(backdated work)

(16) Proximity by astolat Fandoms: American Idol RPF (Season 7)   13 Sep 2008

(17) Decline and Fall by orphan_account <(oldest orphaned work) Fandoms: Harry Potter - Rowling 13 Sep 2008

The Oldest Tags

According to the tag search feature, the tags canonized first were, in this order, the Media tags (categories like "TV Shows", "Movies" etc, to which all fandoms belong), Ratings, Archive Warnings, and Categories (interestingly, those consisted only of Gen, F/M, M/M and Other at the time; F/F had been added on later, when "Closer" (23) by zvi needed to use it)

The first "regular" tags (as in: belonging to the four main categories) canonized had been:

Character: Sam Winchester ‎

Character: Dean Winchester ‎

Character: John Winchester

Relationship: Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester ‎

Relationship: Jessica Moore/Sam Winchester ‎

Character: Sean Bean

Character: Viggo Mortensen

Character: Orlando Bloom ‎

Freeform: Romance ‎

Freeform: Drama ‎

Freeform: Humor

Freeform: Pre-Slash ‎

Character: Ronon Dex

Fandom: Stargate Atlantis ‎

Relationship: Ronon Dex/Jennifer Keller ‎

Freeform: Complete ‎

Character: Rodney McKay

Character: John Sheppard ‎

Character: Susan Pevensie ‎

Character: David Archuleta ‎

Character: David Cook ‎

Fandom: American Idol RPF ‎

Character: Harry ‎

Freeform: Hogwarts ‎

Relationship: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter ‎

[magsintherain]

fanfic loves to follow current events, especially ones where certain leftists on tumblr have very strong opinions about them. as the saying goes, "the devil works fast but ao3 writers work faster."

in the days following the unitedhealthcare ceo shooting, dozens of fics popped up, the vast majority of which were explicit shooter x reader or shooter x self-insert OC. in contrast, following the shooting of charlie kirk, fics also popped up rapidly, but these were much more focused on crossover characters shooting kirk or even works that were not really fanfic but simply clowning on kirk's death.

given that this contrast can be seen even before the release of images of the respective shooters, it speaks to a deeper difference in the way the shootings were glorified: the unitedhealthcare shooting was portrayed as an act of resistance against a corrupt system, thus putting the focus on the shooter, while the kirk shooting was portrayed as an act of political violence justified only by sheer hatred against the subject, thus putting the focus on the shot.

in this essay i will-

[winterwatcherxx]

the devil works fast but ao3 writers work faster.

[the-ao3-stats]

the work in question is the blood on your hands is shared with mine by Anonymous!

Additionally, the following freeforms had since been canonized:

Charlie Kirk Dies - 6 works

Charlie Kirk Shooting - 10 works

There has been a number of characters put forward as the doers of the deed in the tags: Jason Todd (2), Sangihun (1), Light Yagami (1), Jay Ferin (1), Wednesday (1), Inhun (1), Dick Grayson (1), Mike Wheeler (1), and Natalie Scattorcio (1), with more used for fics but not tagged

Out of the 118 works in the Charlie Kirk character tag, only fifteen had been posted prior to the assassination (103 posted since September 10th, 2025)

[the-ao3-stats]

Curious abt my story now aren't ya.

-Candy anon (hi chat, I'm traversing blogs now XD)

very much so! 👀

hi there 👋 welcome to my little slice of ✨ ao3 statistics ✨ 🥰

as a fun fact: the tag "Candy" is used on 4,361 fics! 🍬 Most commonly in the Supernatural fandom (352 uses, 8% of total uses), with the runner-ups being Harry Potter (171), Marvel Cinematic Universe (150), Original Work (141), Teen Wolf (141), and The Avengers (103)

[nomorezerocomments]

i think it's important to note that not all our success stories are about people getting comments. we also have people leaving more comments, making friends, finding wonderful fics they never would have found otherwise, candy anon. joy is contained in the comment, but the comment has many aspects. its about community, and it's about love

[the-ao3-stats]

I'm curious about the Candy Anon story 👀

[the-ao3-stats]

Omnia Græce! - The Languages Listed on AO3

While the majority of works on AO3 (a whooping 87%) are written or marked as being in English, there is a total of 152 languages listed on the archive. This is a small overview of stats related to that data

1. MOST USED LANGUAGES

1 . English (en): 13,600,000 works 2 . 中文-普通话 國語 (zh): 1,091,000 works 3 . Русский (ru): 318,900 works 4 . Español (es): 207,800 works 5 . Français (fr): 75,280 works 6 . Português brasileiro (ptBR): 50,120 works 7 . Bahasa Indonesia (id): 46,000 works 8 . Italiano (it): 42,070 works 9 . Deutsch (de): 33,110 works 10 . Українська (uk): 25,800 works 11 . Polski (pl): 20,490 works 12 . Tiếng Việt (vi): 19,540 works 13 . Filipino (fil): 14,900 works 14 . 中文-广东话 粵語 (yue): 11,450 works

(english omitted from the chart for the following reason:)

>1mil works: 2 languages 100k-1mil works: 2 languages 10k-100k works: 10 languages 1k-10k works: 12 languages 100-1k works: 30 languages 10-100 works: 45 languages 2-9 works: 31 languages 1 work: 9 languages 0 works: 11 languages

The languages with zero works are: Finuʼ Chamorro (cha), Furlan (fur), Хальмг Өөрдин келн (xal), kreyòl ayisyen (ht), Nawat (ppl), O’odham Ñiok (ood), لسان عثمانى (ota), Pulaar (fuc), RRomani Ćhib (rom), Slověnьskъ Językъ (sla), ትግርኛ (tir).

A third of the languages (29.6%) have between 10-100 works. Nearly two-thirds (69.7%) have between 2-1k works. Only 9.21% have more than 10k works, and 1.32% has more than 1mil works.

2. TOP TAGS IN VARIOUS LANGUAGES

In 中文-普通话 國語 (zh), the top fandoms are:

Men's Football RPF (21,093 works, 1.93%) 声入人心 | Super-Vocal (18,762 works, 1.72%) 全职高手 - 蝴蝶蓝 | Quánzhí Gāoshǒu - Húdié Lán (16,940 works, 1.55%) Original Work (16,124, 1.48%) Slam Dunk (15,882 1.46%)

The top freeforms used are:

Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics (18,607 works, 1.71%) Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot (14,676 works, 1.35%) Hermaphrodites (13,105 works, 1.20%) Oral Sex (11,500 works, 1.05%) Alternate Universe (11,441 works, 1.05%)

In Русский (ru), the top fandoms are:

Original Work (16,258 works, 5.10%) Harry Potter (13,904 works, 4.36%) 原神 | Genshin Impact (8,339 works, 2.61%) 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù (7,806 works, 2.45%) Marvel Cinematic Universe (7,202 works, 2.26%)

The top freeforms used are:

Romance (50,597 works, 15.87%) Alternate Universe (40,441 works, 12.68%) Drama (35,806 works, 11.23%) Angst (35,046 works, 10.99%) Humor (33,053 works, 10.36%)

In Español (es), the top fandoms are:

Harry Potter (12,922 works, 6.22%) Boku no Hero Academia (7,312 works, 3.52%) Naruto (5,094 works, 2.45%) Módào Zǔshī (4,984 works, 2.40%) Bangtan Boys (4,392 works, 2.11%)

The top freeforms used are:

Fluff (20,344 works, 9.79%) Romance (18,352 works, 8.83%) Angst (16,127 works, 7.76%) Alternate Universe (15,334 works, 7.38%) Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence (11,286 works, 5.43%)

It's very interesting seeing how the top used tags vary between languages! If you wish to do some independent looking, check out the AO3 page of available languages - clicking on any language name will bring you to the multi-fandom search page of all works in that language!

[the-ao3-stats]

can't include boxplots in posts yet (tho i really wanna work up to that!! but i'm not shilling out for the software i used in uni LOL so i'm looking around for a workable solution) but i did the calculations for kudos and:

red is the minimum value of 0. blue line is at 16 kudos and it marks 25% of all fics. green line is the median at 46 kudos and it marks 50% of all fics. purple line is at 136 kudos and marks 75% of all fics.

the black line is the end of the whisker, marked at 319* which is the max value it can take in this specific dataset.

*It's actually marked at 339 because that's where the top 10% begins, but close enough for the purposes of this

That distance? That's about 15% of fics, bringing it to a total of 90%. Wanna know why the other 10% was omitted here?

THIS is how far one would need to zoom out to reach the red line. The red line marks where the top 1% kudoed fics start

and THIS is how far away the top kudoed fic is XD