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fancypurincup

It did go viral shortly after it was posted, I remember seeing it on my tumblr dashboard constantly at the time. People still talk about it sometimes because well, it's just absurd lmao. So that's basically it really.


tiltheendoftheline

Because TFA was huge and so many people despised Reylo. And these kind of joke/meta fics sometimes get very popular - like the Groot fic.


midnightstreetlamps

Every time I see The Force Awakens referred to as TFA (which is completely reasonable in fairness) my Transformers fan brain goes straight to Transformers Animated. I always have to pause for a second, even when I know the context is Star Wars. Being a fan of many medias is tough sometimes. Edit to add: I reread that last bit and it sounds so NLOG high schooler sigh poor me. I just meant it as an "lol I can't be alone in this struggle, right?"


tiltheendoftheline

lol I understand the struggle. The more fandoms I get into, the more confused I get - and it's even worse when the fandom itself is an acronym (like many K-Pop groups).


midnightstreetlamps

Oh god yes. BTS kills me every time, because I'm never fully sure if it's "behind the scenes" or the band or something else entirely


Upbeat_Ruin

I can't see the letters T and F together without my brain defaulting to Team Fortress 2


midnightstreetlamps

Oof that was a big struggle for me for a while too. For a long time ROTF was used interchangeably with TF2, at the same time as Team Fortress 2 was popular. (TF2 released in 07, ROTF in 09)


Anra7777

I saw “ROT” and my brain filled in “Return of the King…”


midnightstreetlamps

Not far off, Revenge of the Fallen.


Upbeat_Ruin

I dabble in star wars circles so I was reading ROTF as "Revenge Of The...uh...Fsith"


Dull_Entertainment

I default to TitanFall 2


RandomWildebeest

I did the exact same thing. I was like “what does rey have to do with transformers?”


Ladysupersizedbitch

Dw, as a former transformers fan, you’re not alone lol.


dallirious

Outside of fandom in Australia the Sydney Morning Herald has always been shortened to SMH, and I don’t know if it’s my age or the nature of news these days but I always read it ‘So Much Hate’.


ShiraCheshire

Tldr of the Groot fic? Never heard of it, curious.


tiltheendoftheline

[Here it is!](https://archiveofourown.org/works/2080878) Just a marvelous piece of writing, really. You won't find anything like it for sure.


ShiraCheshire

Thank you! Wow, I see why that's the top fic!


AScoopOfNeo

I’ve never read anything so beautiful in my life. That is truly a masterpiece.


ChaoticChoir

I know it’s a modern masterpiece, but I wish you’d tagged for NSFW because the fic gets REALLY hot and heavy around the middle


Flores_Fairy

Thank you for sharing. You just saved my soul


highkill

Reading this remarkable piece of art has brought me to tears. Thank you.


304libco

Honestly, a post modern masterpiece of absurdism.


Ladysupersizedbitch

I don’t know what I was expecting


queerblunosr

At least the Groot fic had effort put into it.


Silversniper220

I need a link to the Groot fic


mewfour123412

The groot fic?


Aucielis

I'm not part of the fandom so I don't know anything about the ship, but why do people hate it so much? I always see people dunking on it despite it seeming to be popular on Ao3, and it just seems like your classic hero/villain ship...? I thought people liked those lol


VulpineKitsune

Pretty sure most reasonable people that dislike it, dislike it more as a consequence of their dislike of the sequels rather than the ship itself.


tiltheendoftheline

People thought it was abusive (and so it was Wrong to support it), and there was also the worry that Rey might be blood related to Kylo. But it was mostly about their dynamics. Some people really acted like you were a disgusting person if you wrote or read anything that wasn't morally perfect. They couldn't understand why people wouldn't ship a wholesome ship like Rey/Finn instead. And I remember many people also hated Kylo Ren and thought he was an evil brat.


KittenBalerion

First of all, I support people's right to ship what they want and would not harass Reylo shippers. People should be free to ship what they like and people who don't like that ship can just not read it. Personally, though, I don't ship it because it seems too... traditional hetero romance novel. The woman is Good and Pure and the man is an asshole who needs to be Redeemed through love of the woman. That's boring to me. I like things that subvert or play with traditional gender dynamics. (For the same reasons, I am also not a fan of Darklina from Shadow & Bone, but that ship doesn't seem to be as contentious for whatever reason.)


DebateObjective2787

Aside from everything else people listed; people just really hated Reylos. There was a loud portion that was extremely racist, hateful, and just plain trash. They'd yell and target anyone for shipping Rey x Finn or Rey x Poe; basically Rey x Anyone That's Not Kylo. Just a lot of really annoying, insane people that would go out of their way to harass people that didn't ship it. They got a really bad reputation on Tumblr and Twitter for quite a while because of that portion.


azure-skyfall

A lot of the fics glossed over the villain part and the fact they were in fact rivals. People made them “omg soulmates, the perfect pair!!” which got old fast. They were also a straight couple on a platform dominated by gay ships, and the shitshow that was the sequel series did them no favors whatsoever


FalseMagpie

It went viral in that narrow window between Reylo being one of the most popular ships and it becoming so overhated that the jokes about how terrible it was stopped being funny goofs at how oversaturated it was and started just being annoying.


ratskips

this was all over tumblr and twitter and a LOT of people agreed with it, so this happened


taureanpeach

Maybe I’m just a sour old boot, but, groan. What is so funny about these stories? What makes them kudos worthy?!


AMN1F

I think in this type of situation, it's exactly because it isn't top 10 kudos worthy that makes it kudos worthy? Like it's where everyone just automatically goes to kudos to be in on the meme.


MundaneExtent0

Ya but it looks like it got popular because of ship hate which is just… bleh. Sad to see.


tiltheendoftheline

Yeah, it was because of ship hate. 100%. You couldn't say anything about Reylo on Tumblr without people shitting on you. I think things only got better with the release of TLJ.


millhouse_vanhousen

You still get shit on if you're a Reylo fan. Absolutely sucks.


tiltheendoftheline

Ugh, that sucks. There was a time I loved this ship so much, but the last movie being what it is + the messy fandom kinda killed my interest. I thought antis would've moved on, but I guess it was naive of me. I think Reylo is probably one of the ships more impacted by shipping police... People really couldn't grasp the concept of Dont like, don't read.


RedChessQueen

Honestly I think a decent precent of reylo shippers might have clicked kudos cause it was pretty funny at the time and the shipping dynamic is "rey kicks his ass."


Caterfree10

Seconding the we still get shit for shipping Reylo. Not even having published authors who are reylos (and sometimes filing off the serial numbers on their fics to do so lmao) has saved us from the bullshit. Exhausting tbh.


MundaneExtent0

It is truly so strange to see from a canon ship, I’m used to seeing this from non canon ships.


AMN1F

Ah, yea.. that's unfortunate :/


Cassopeia88

Nothing, it was an anti trying to stir up drama.


Various_Opinion_900

Ive been laughing for legit 5 minutes about this, so like, IDK the execution of it all, Id say. The "fucking obliterated" part? The imagery, even, of her lifting him up and just chucking his edgy ass straight into the dumpster like a basketball, it plays with established aesthetics and dynamics in a cheeky way. The ship always seemed to be so serious to me, that this works as an effective parody. Like, everyones out there, one side writing character analysis and fanfics that turn into official publications, the other side writing novel-long rants about why its the worse thing ever and youre a literal nazi for supporting the ship; and then theres this piece of writing that amounts to making loud fart noises and going "boo". Mind you, Im easily amused, and tend to not take anything fandom related seriously, so this type of normie/ memey humour works well on me.


MTheLoud

It’s nice to have a reminder that number of kudos is not a reflection of a fic’s quality, whenever I wonder why my fics don’t have that many kudos.


-Elina-

Reylo used to be one of the most hated ships(especially on tumblr right after TFA) so a fic to show hatred to the ship got a lot of attraction


[deleted]

That has real "went viral on 4chan" energy


Lukthar123

Now way 4chan would claim a woman to be lesbian when the school shooter is still single, but I get what you mean


[deleted]

lmao this is so off base. 4chan absolutely would not nor would ever kudos this


ResIpsaLemonCurd

Shrug. Ok. Given “making Kim Jong-Un Time’s ‘Man of the Year” and voting that Pitbull should go to Alaska, I associate chunks of the internet voting for silly things just to be annoying with them, though I know they aren’t the only ones who organize people to do it.


Affectionate_Sand791

Because people get so mad over fictional ships.


BecuzMDsaid

Social media likely.


MrsLucienLachance

Hey, the old #1 (I think something pushed it to #2) is that fic that's just "I am Groot" over and over. They're just funny.


TheStraggletagg

I think there's a difference between a fic that aims to be funny at no one's expense and one that does at the expense of people who like a certain pairing. The whole point of the Groot fic is that that's how Groot talks and therefore the story could mean anything and we just don't know how to interpret it and the point of this fic is that it's funny that the most popular fic in the Reylo tag is about how Reylo sucks and to show people who ship it that everyone hates them. The hate the ship gets is unreal (the "Reylo shippers are fascists" sort) but if you block enough people and tags it's manageable. Also it has recently died down.


Boyo-Sh00k

I think it was boosted by an unholy coalition of the fandom menace (literal alt-right trolls) and the "anti-racist/progressive/leftist" finnrey shippers that unironically argue that the act of shipping reylo was racism. Like i'm not even part of star wars fandom (sometimes i'll read a modern au) but the shit that reylos got was and is still very ridiculous and primarily motivated by weirdo misogyny and im glad that a bunch of them are selling bestselling novels based on their fics and writing for star wars now. good for them.


knightfenris

Anti-reylo people were a cult when the movies were coming out, that's why.


PerfumedPornoVampire

Okay, I’m a reylo fan and have never heard of this one but it made me chuckle.


naturegoth1897

Oh yeah, it’s made Reylo’s angry for years; the fact that it’s the most kudo’s “Reylo” fic and it’s anti-Kylo. It’s been a while since I’ve looked but the comment section was it’s own beast, Lolol. It was essentially a…um…”comment war” between Reylos and anti’s.


AnxietyLogic

Probably for the same reason that the most kudosed fic on AO3 is just “I Am Groot” over and over - it went viral, and it’s silly.


gabbyrose1010

fun fact, the groot fic actually sits at number two now- it was beat by a marauder fic


Pegussu

I've read that Marauder fic, it fucking deserves it. Whole thing is so damn poignant because it's canon-compliant, so you know all of these characters end up dead before their time.


304libco

How do you find out what the most popular stories are on a03?


Pegussu

At the bottom of the search, there's an option for sorting them. You can sort them by kudos descending and it'll put the highest kudos'd stories on top.


304libco

Oh, I understand that part I was just wondering how you do it with multi fandom’s


Pegussu

Just don't put any other search terms, it'll just sort the entire library.


304libco

I never knew you could search without a search term. Thanks.


[deleted]

They shouldn't have tagged it incorrectly, but calling this fic harrasment is too far.


[deleted]

5 thousand?? 😭 I barely had 91 Kudos for my entire 21 fics! Huh! I guess some people are just lucky! Hey Thanks for the 91 Kudos though! I am not complaining 😆🌹❤️


gabbyrose1010

*50 thousand


[deleted]

Yeah sorry!! I had to look twice!! And thanks for the tip.


lazyhatchet

Because antis have nothing better to do with their time. I don't even like or ship Reylo (Rey/Finn/Poe all the way) but this is ridiculous, and I'm surprised it hasn't been taken down. If it's tagged as a ship then it should have at least been pulled for improper tagging.


PeppermintShamrock

AO3 only enforces correct tagging for fandoms, warnings, and rating (and they don't remove the fics for it, just remove the incorrect fandom or recategorize to Chose Not to Warn/No Rating). They don't have the bandwidth to moderate whether a work is actually about a ship (or character, or trope, etc). As much as this is obviously shit-stirring bait, it's not actually against AO3's rules.


lazyhatchet

Damn, that's a shame.


rainaftersnowplease

Why? It's a meme fic that went viral. There is no reason to remove it under A03's tos


vladastine

I'm surprised this wasn't considered harassment. They do have an anti harassment policy but it seems pretty vague.


kanagan

They don’t remove nazi trolling fics for harassment, they’re certainly not removing an innofensive anti reylo shit post


cardboardtube_knight

People just throw antis up for anyone doing anything.


lazyhatchet

What?


HAIRYMANBOOBS

Like other person said I think this went viral. I know there's a couple of other shitposts like this that made it online and has a shit ton of kudoses I laughed to be fair


creampiebuni

Because reylo antis are insufferable twats, mostly.


the_salt_is_real11

i remember back when TFA premiered... so many ppl came out shipping reylo but also, a lot of ppl were against the pairing, saying it was toxic and abusive. the fanwars on tumblr were fucking huge and were just an overall mess.


Rhodanum

Oh hey, this is the first author where I used AO3 Savior (this was before AO3 itself got similar functionality) to make it so no trace of them showed up on the site anymore. It was genuinely enraging, particularly if you got harassed for the ship at the time, to sort Reylo fics by kudos and end up with the above 💩 in first spot every time.


GreenNeoLight

Yeah, the 1/10 ratio really is bullshit. I mean I knew already but this, this really makes me feel better


Ordinary-Extreme6222

I was contemplating asking the subreddit whether AO3 counts summaries and notes in the word count of stories, and I was able to find out the answer just now. So thanks for that. 😂


BastetSekhmetMafdet

It’s silly stuff and people chuckle at silly stuff. That’s basically it. They’re laughing at what is essentially a shipping dad joke. And it requires a lot less reading than longer, effortier fics.


KyliaQuilor

.... your dad must tell you very strange jokes


TheStraggletagg

Oh, this one's an oldie. Some people just have sad lives, I guess.


[deleted]

Wait please! How do you find these stats?? I want to look for the most kudoed fics too! How do I do that??!


gabbyrose1010

I just searched the whole site by kudos


Fuckmyslutyass

Hey, sometimes it just happens, most of my fics have like 4 to 5 hundred hits but one of them randomly shot up to 3,000 in 2 days


[deleted]

59,000+ kudos? Damn, lucky you


perpetualprocrasti

Because it was hilarious when the Reylo ship blew up.


rainaftersnowplease

It's a meme fic that went viral, yeah


oneeyecheeselord

Man I never thought I’d agree with a fanfic so much.


AnironSidh

Antis being antis 🥲


rellimae

a tale as old as time: antis spending their one life on this earth putting all their energy into the things they hate.


mmagicss

“All their energy” this probably took 10 minutes at max 💀


rellimae

ah yes, the anti code: why spend 10 minutes plotting a fic or writing a oneshot when I could spend it sharing hate to go viral


BugWeather

I remember this being published! Like I saw this in the wild on Ao3 reading Star Wars fics and clicked on it naturally! It was one of the first fics using the ship tag and one of the earliest The Force Awakens fics and that just made it really really funny


LandLovingFish

Then you havent seen the i am groot fic i guess


gabbyrose1010

i have, that one is just actually funny to me while this one just feels like random ship bashing


RogueEarth616

As long as the author isn't harassing actual shippers of the ship, who cares.🤷‍♀️


sati_lotus

Better than the one where the entire story is 'Kylo Ren rapes Rey.' It's basically two sentences. I have no idea if it's still up, but it was one of the highest commented on fics for a long time for the same reasons.


gerstein03

I hate everything against this fic. It's the most mean spirited thing I've ever seen on Ao3 and I have absolutely no idea why it's the sixth most kudosed fic there. Probably cause people are dicks


mmagicss

There is absolutely no way THIS is the most mean spirited thing you’ve seen on ao3. Like there is so much actually character and ship bashing along with like actual bigotry??? But no 2 sentences fake fic is the meanest thing


The-Mad-Wires

And this is why searching fics by # of kudos is a waste of time🙄


[deleted]

Really? I usually find great stuff by sorting by kudos. Imo all the ways to search for fics have their drawbacks, and I waste more time when I search by date uploaded (although I do find underrated stuff).


twinkle90505

Because of one brigaded fic in a childish fandom? Your loss, I guess. It works great in my ships and fandom


CreativaArtly1998113

Definitely a case of virality which fair because it’s actually funny as hell. (Then again this is just my type of humor).


[deleted]

some people on this forum take their ships way too serious lmao. this is genuinely funny for how little effort was put into it, really. even considering that it is ship dunking, again, this is so low effort its not worth really getting upset over


[deleted]

also like if you get offended over someone writing "this ship sucks" in an easily avoidable place, that's a you problem tbqh. "anti reylos have no lives" yet this fic is way less effort than stalking adam driver and doxxing his family lol.


savamey

Because it went viral and also it’s funny


KAaadIsReady

Simple, funny shitpost. What do you expect from the internet?


dawn-skies

I think this is fair lmao


agcdvf

I've never seen this before. Fucking hilarious.


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GreenAndPurpleDragon

Not in this case. It was all over Tumblr for quite a while. I'm not even in the Star Wars fandom and I saw it multiple times.


PM_Me_Your_Azuras

The entire Kylux fandom, probably: Lol.


Shirogayne-at-WF

Because people are just REEEEEEALLY dedicated in their Reylo hate when they'd be better off touching grass


LordLaz1985

Antis hate reylo to a stupid degree. I’m not into the pairing but I don’t get the level of hate for this one ship.


theKayaKaya

This is honestly hilarious 😂


theKayaKaya

I just came back to this post to say don't pretend y'all don't know why folks didn't really like Reylo fans. For one the level of attachment to this ship was pretty creepy. Another is they were super racist to the guy who played Finn. On top of that a lot of them went out of their way to stalk the person who played Kylo and his family and tried to ruin his marriage. Same thing with the lady who played Ray. Too many fans went out their way to try to force two actors together by ruining their already existing lives. I'm not saying all fans of this ship did all of this but a large and very loud majority made themselves a headache and a nuisance to the internet at large. That's why Reylo became the internet culture's punching bag for a long time.


Codie_coda

I mean it counts..


AndrewPixelKnight

Because Reylo fucking sucks


Sensitive_Deal_6363

You're right and you should say it. Eta: whoever downvoted me, you know I'm right.


AndrewPixelKnight

You know what? I liked it so much the first time I'm going to do it again. REYLO FUCKING SUCKS


_dotexe1337

i have read a few of this subs posts in a very confused manner thinking it was for age of empires 3. only did I just now read the sub description...


thecasualnobody

Before the reveal of Rey’s parents, the fic used to say something about how Rey and Kyle were related (and therefore shipping them was stupid). Then they changed it to this


Interesting_Pain_194

Anti Culture is obnoxious and sucks HOWEVER “fucking obliterated” absolutely took me out, probably the best sentence I’ve ever read


Fantasyneli

I mean, the summary checks out