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Recently, the term has gained traction due to the mass migration of fanworks from closed or restricted platforms (such as LiveJournal, FanFiction.net, and more recently,Tumblr and Twitter/X) to AO3. This report details the definitions, causes, and implications of this trend.

If you log into a true AO3 mirror, you are logging into the exact same database as the standard site. You will see: The same works. The exact same hit counts and kudos. Your own personal reading history and bookmarks. ao3 mirror exclusive

A popular fanfiction trope (most notably from Star Trek ) involving an alternate, often "evil" reality. Recently, the term has gained traction due to

: Many authors restrict their works to prevent large-scale data scraping by AI training models. Avoiding Harassment and more recently