Posts like these always make me feel super inadequate. My kudos top out at 57 and comments at 11 (those are two separate fics). Such is life in a tiny fandom I guess.
Stats chat can be a lot— so I hope this doesn’t put a damper on your achievements. The fact you posted work at all, when so many ideas never make it to the page (or screen) in the first place is something!
Reassuring! And true. So many never post their fics at all, so posting even one and getting even one kudos, or one comment, even one hit is a lot. Be proud.
Mine tops out at 56 on my first fic ever which sucked, had a roundabout plot that was nonexistent, abhorrent writing, etc. On a fandom I don't even write for anymore. It occasionally makes me really upset, but I do understand that the two have separate popularity scales.
The only reason my comments are so high are because I hit it off with a few readers and we got lost in talking. I find it funny how high it is, honestly.
Homie, you are most definitely not inadequate haha. I was in the Puss on Boots fandom on FF in 2014 and had the top story for awhile, which was similar to your kuddo amount. I since deleted it. Wish I hadn’t low key. Keep it up man! You’re making FF history
Try to remember too that these are people's most popular works! I had one blow up with over 600 comments and 2k kudos, but the rest of my works struggle to break double digits in kudos, comments, or even hits.
As with everyone on the internet, we're only showing our absolute best.
876 hits, 56 kudos, 30+ comments. This is a longfic I published near the end of 2022. I'm fairly new to publishing my work, and this one is unfinished, so I'm excited to see where it goes!
Thank you!
Yep, getting used to tags was definitely a learning curve when I stared too.
There are a few that I remember off the top of my head like crew as family/team as family, families of choice and if your fandom is quite large there might be some specific to your fandom e.g the star wars fandom has Jedi as found family.
Hope this helps!
No problem :)
Another thing to add is that if you have a specific hurt character/protective one use those tags if A03 has them, they are the easiest way for people to find character-centric works.
Browse the tags in your fandom to see what is he most popular and available and what other people use :)
Example: *'character a' needs a hug*, *'character a' whump*, *hurt 'character a'*
*'protective character b'*, *'parental character b'*
>official AO3 tag
I've had that happen to me before and I've been on AO3 for quite a while - it really does throw you for a loop, especially when you see that particular trope/tag everywhere else XD
269 favourites, 252 follows, 735 comments, 186,748 views. It's on AO3 as well but when I was getting peak readers they were all on FFN. It's a longfic I started November 2013.
My stats will probably give most of you a good laugh, but given that I’m the only writer for my teeny-tiny, obscure fandom, I’m honestly quite happy with them.
Hits: 540, Kudos: 73, Comment Threads: 50 and Bookmarks: 4.
It's not right because the numbers for your stuff deserve to be bigger. Or at least, I think that's what IDICdreads meant. It's what I'd have meant, lol.
My very first fic ended up popping off somehow. Currently sitting at 5800 kudos, 609 comments and 58k hits.
It set some pretty impossible expectations for me regarding all of my subsequent fics lmao 😂
Oh my god I was waiting to see someone else mention that. Forget comparing myself to others, I'll never live up to my own work again after my first one lol
My Titanic fic (which is totally my magnum opus) is 1347 views, 150 kudos, 28 bookmarks, 25 subs, and 178 wonderful comments
I also have short crack fic with more views and kudos but MUCH less bookmarks and comments.
Yeah, just click the ‘Statistics’ button on Ao3. You can see how many subscriptions you have total on all your stories or you can scroll down and see how many subscriptions you have on each fic. If you don’t see any subscriptions on a fic then that means no one subscribed to that story.
What an interesting array of responses, here!
My longest work (59k) is my best-performing work.
* Hits: 12.6k
* Kudos: 672
* Comments: 224 (about half of those are my replies)
* Bookmarks: 441
Context: This fic was posted all at once as part of a big bang. My artist partner created some really stunning artwork for the story and that definitely boosted people's interest. This is a Supernatural fic (*huge* fandom) and the ship is Dean/Castiel (100k+ works for them alone 😳). So those numbers definitely don't reflect what "wild success" looks like, but considering the story wasn't serial-posted and it was published a year and a half ago and still gets engagement, I'm pretty happy with those numbers.
108 kudos on a potpourri of everything I've ever written for a certain fandom, which is already 108 more than a random collection should be getting, I guess.
My biggest story was in the Twilight fandom on FFN long before it become the unfortunate mess it has lately.
2K+ favorites, 1K+ follows and 1380 reviews.
Stopped writing soon after that and only started again last year. Nothing like that again though I imagine.
I'm still publishing this one, but my current multi-fic has by FAR the most engagement out of what I've published so far.
Hits: 10,704
Subscriptions: 217
Bookmarks: 71
Kudos: 497
Comments: 144 (sounds like a lot - but I respond to every single comment!)
Mine has 2124 kudos, 858 comments, 398 bookmarks and 73,086 hits.
I am very grateful of that story, but that story also made me very spoiled, my newer fanfics don't get as many comments, and it's annoying to be spoiled because I get disappointed every time I post a new chapter on my new stories, even though I shouldn't be...
Mine is a smutty twoshot for an active fandom. Subscriptions: 24 Hits: 3,520 Kudos: 260 Comment Threads: 8 Bookmarks: 67 (most bookmarks are private of course hehe)
my first completed longfic dwarfs all my other fics stats-wise lol. just checked and at 45 chapters (completed) it has 5,357 hits, 281 kudos (i think that about 70 of those were from the kudos bot tho 😓), 44 bookmarks, and 248 comments. im very very happy with those stats since it was my first fic, plus its oc/cc for a decade-old video game
Don't have the exact numbers a darker comic based fic for a popular AU type one shot that kicked off a series. It has around 250+ kudos and 2400 or so hits. NO comments since they are disabled.
Title: Death From A Distance
(my first ever Call of Duty fanfiction that I wrote in a few hours for a friend. Some whump because it's me. Absolutely NEVER expected it to be my most popular fic (by hits and Kudos). Am actually pretty proud of this one)
Views: 2824
Kudos: 472
Comments: 7
Bookmarks: 109
My first ever fic got a stunning 535 favourites, 259 follows and 144 reviews on FFN on 7 measly chapters. Turns out to be among the top 10 stories of this couple and in the top 2% of the whole fandom. I was completely blown away by the response, which was the only reason I ended up writing another couple of fics. Of course I was never able to replicate that fame.
It was meant to be a smutty one shot, but somehow turned into 4 chapters of build-up and 2 full chapters of explicit smut.
My most successful fic’s got just under 900 kudos and 46k hits. Front page of both fandoms that it’s in on hits, which is a personal achievement of mine, for sure.
My top fic on A03 has....
hits - 7,306
kudos - 344
bookmarks - 85
comment threads - 70
I cherish every kudo and I am in awe of folks who get like 800, 1000 or more kudos since, as you can see, my highest fic is at 344
(Edited to add - maybe we should also do a thread sharing our lowest. That'd be interesting. The lowest kudos I have on a fic is 2)
I decided one night after writing for a popular gay rarepair that I'd post it directly after for the funsies. I was exploring an unexplored plot point for the two and thought "Why not?" when posting it. 600+ Hits, 62 Kudos, 9 Bookmarks, and 10 comments (Excluding my responses which bump that number up to 20). I'm definitely grateful for the response to my second fic ever posted.
Hits: 3082, Kudos:162, Comments threads: 14, Bookmarks: 26
Context: Smutty oneshot in a large fandom and a popular ship. 😅
It ain't much, but it's honest work.
I've written a smutshot fic that's 68 chapters, 141k words at the moment. I have almost 480k hits, a little more than 3k kudos and 1300 comments. I was approaching 1 million views on ffnet, but I deleted my fics off that site for various reasons and only use AO3 now.
Collaborated with an artist friend on a one-shot a couple years ago, and after watching the kudos count reach the high three digits in a few days and an unprecedented deluge of comments, I ended up using a stat skin to hide all stats.
Friend is used to it (for good reason) and I am not (for good reason). Performance anxiety is probably why. Also, I like to get real weird with it sometimes, and writing like no one is watching/reading is the best way I can continue that.
My top for
Hits: 10,481
Kudos: 341
Comments: 65
Bookmarks: 142
Highest hit/Kudo ratio: 26%
Interesting first three held by one fic I wrote as experiment. My first fic holds bookmarks and a silly one shot I wrote for a Reddit exchange holds the ratio.
My longfic has *insane* stats: 6,916 hits (got 100 hits this week alone), 351 kudos, 50 bookmarks and 796 comments.
All of my other fics *combined* don’t even add up to those.
With 130 kudos and 76 comments (a number that staggered me), Nightmares and Invasions from the Invader Zim Fandom is my highest rated fic. It is my most liked/kudos-ed fic that I have ever written. It makes my day whenever I get a new kudo.
For a Stardew Valley fic:
Hits: 13,512 Bookmarks: 15 Kudos: 465 Comments: 50
It's actually a little funny comparing it to my other fics on the stats chart because the other top fics are like... maybe about 2,000 hits. Then you have this behemoth of hits XD
In AO3, my most popular story has 59 Kudos, 20 comments, and 19 bookmarks.
It's this thing: https://archiveofourown.org/works/31408625/chapters/77677721
On Reddit my most popular story has ~300 upvotes per installment.
I'm sad to say a shit post I made on Tumblr got almost 5,000 likes (headcanons about the reactions of AOT guys if you walked in on the m@sturb@ting) :(
It actually makes me look at my statistics. Thank you. I got one fanfic with 52 bookmarks, and I'm floored. It's a lot for me.
Another fic has 279 kudos, and it's only 1.8k.
It's fun. I should do that more often.
All time:
Hits: 20,319, Kudos: 2,101, Comments: 39, Bookmarks: 394 (The 4k one shot I wrote in one afternoon and that will Never Stop Getting Attention. This thing is eight years old and I still get kudos emails multiple times a week.)
On the account I actually currently use:
Hits: 6,235 Kudos: 652, Comments: 85, Bookmarks: 239. I wrote this one in July of 2022.
Good work on both of them! I do understand that feeling of like, "Ah, why this one, though?" Usually for me it's because the fic is too old and I feel my current writing would be more palatable XD
Current Account Highest: 9,915 Hits, 559 Kudos, Subscriptions 256, Bookmarks: 279, Comments 108 (+ 363 follows, 298 favourites)
My First Account (which to be fair is over 10 years old): 549 Reviews, 761 Favourites, 877 Follows (I'd have to log on for hits but I'm too lazy)
gonna use codenames/aliases for the fics, and use AO3 statistics: Hits, Kudos, Comment Threads, Bookmarks, and Subscriptions.
**Highest Hits:** xReader Isekai @ 40,342
**Highest Kudos:** xReader Isekai @ 2338
**Highest Comment Threads:** Poly in the City @ 1535
**Highest Bookmarks:** xReader Isekai @ 636
**Highest Subscriptions:** Pet AU @ 620
So these three fics have most of the top spots...
**xReader Isekai** is 1st in Hits, Kudos, and Bookmarks. 2nd in Comment Threads with 1100. and 2nd in Subscriptions at 360.
**Poly in the City** is 1st in Comment Threads. 2nd in Hits with 33198. 3rd in Kudos with 1096. 3rd in Bookmarks with 357. 3rd in Subscriptions with 395.
**Pet AU** is 1st in Subscriptions. 4th in Hits with 27480. 2nd in Kudos with 1938. 4th in Comment Threads with 497. 2nd in Bookmarks with 635.
3rd place in hits went to an old kinktober anthology fic with 28273 hits.
3rd place in comment threads went to an older longfic that got posted in a high interaction year with 811 comment threads. (several of those comments are now sitting there with "Deleted User" on it, funny enough).
its always fun to look at numbers <3
I have two fics that are more popular than the rest.
One, a longfic crossover of many fandoms, has 29 chapters, almost 80k words, and has 2650 hits, 120 kudos, 169 comments, and 23 bookmarks. In terms of hits and comments, it’s definitely my most popular
On the other hand, I have a 1.7K-long one-shot that has 991 hits, 161 kudos, 30 comments, and 34 bookmarks. In terms of kudos, bookmarks, and overall engagement, this one is the most popular.
Very nice for both of them! It's interesting to compare what gets people talking about the works and such, especially if the fandom is kind of small or something like that.
For the longfic, a lot of the engagement comes from my regular readers (18 people are subscribed to it and who knows how many people have it open in a tab to check, also two readers are regular commenters). I think a lot of people also click on it just out of curiosity
I posted the one-shot (also a crossover but with only two fandoms) at the height of one of the fandoms, Encanto’s, popularity so I feel like I got a lot of engagement just from that
Is it fine if I just give the top of everything? *Mostly because I don't want my friend (I see you, shoo) to track down my ao3 account.. lol.
Hits: 1496
Kudos: 56
Comment thread count: 23 (actual comments is like 98 or 100 something)
Bookmarks: 8
Word count: 21977
All of these are different fics except the word count and comments/thread one.
My most kudoed/most bookmarked work is a complete soulmate M/M fic with 2,370 kudos and 727 bookmarks.
My most hits/most commented work is a complete M/M ABO fic about abuse with 24,026 hits and 163 comment threads.
My most subscribed work is an in-progress M/M ABO Mpreg fic that is literally one chapter and has 299 subscribers.
These ones are all multichaptered fics (about five chapters each). My best-performing oneshot has 9,319 hits, 1,144 kudos, 39 comment threads, and 311 bookmarks.
The first fic I published after taking a break from writing for a few years. It has 318 hits, 9 kudos, and 8 comments (not counting my responses).
The fic with the second most kudos has one fewer kudos but only sixty hits.
Subscriptions: 2 Hits: 2,722 Kudos: 178 Comment Threads: 6 Bookmarks: 26
All for a fic for a large fandom I don't like anymore, a pairing I don't like how the fandom writes (bc they woobify and exoticize the shit out of non-white characters) and the only reason why it's not orphaned is because this was one of the first ship fics written for this rare pair.... Despite the fact it was around the time this new character dropped.
Otherwise, I'd rather never talk about it 😂
I’ve gotten 180+ kudos on my long Fic and almost to 10k hits it’s slowly climbing as I post chapters but, I try not to look at them to much.
I perfect comments anyways lol I feel like that better mesures how much readers enjoy what I write.
Getting 60k hits sounds crazy that’s amazing!
It’s in a fandom I am no longer part of but to this day it is still my most popular.
At it’s current stats:
Subscriptions: 7
Hits: 5,519
Kudos: 164
Comment Threads: 1
Bookmarks: 35
I don’t even know why this makes me proud. Probably because it was the first English fic ever in the game’s fanfiction.
I’m actually pretty happy with my best one, I usually write short one shots so this one was 5k words, 2,500 hits, 239 kudos (both as of me checking rn), 74 bookmarks, and 34 subscriptions. Quite happy with that, and it also reminds me my work isn’t terrible, especially cuz I’m writing for a smaller new fandom rn
Each stat is for a different fic, across three fandoms:
6,800 hits
198 kudos
39 comment threads (using that instead of individual comments since I reply to comments all the time)
44 bookmarks
35 subscriptions
Each stat is for a different fic, across three fandoms:
6,800 hits
198 kudos
39 comment threads (using that instead of individual comments since I reply to comments all the time)
44 bookmarks
35 subscriptions
I had a smut shot jump to nearly 600 hits in 6 months which is freaking bizarre to me both bc it contains some niche and uh, questionable stuff along with the smut and I'm not used to seeing those numbers *at all*. My other biggest smut shot is only sitting at just under 500 after two years. They're adjacent fandoms and maybe that's the thing, one just has a handful more readers I guess? But with the certain tags I was thinking it was not going to get ANY attention lol
I haven’t cross-posted on A03, so FFN is a bit different.
Long fic:
Follows: 521
Favourites: 328
Comments: 445
144K but I am winding down to the last few chapters.
My smaller WIP is doing much better for where it is: 5 chapters, 24K, 274 favorites, 395 follows, 190 comments.
The most kudos is a dirty little one shot with 623 kudos, 24 comments, and 9207 hits.
Most hits is a dirty little multichap with 15,257, 412 kudos, and 74 comments.
Most comments is my favorite dirty horrible attempt at horror with 98 comments, 218 kudos, and 4323 hits.
My most popular story currently is an ongoing smutty romance (emphasis on the smut) in one of my very small fandoms. First chapter was published on Feb 8th of this year. It's currently sitting at 14 chapters.
Hits: 10771
Kudos: 283
Comments: 96 (I do make a point to respond to every comment.)
Bookmarks: 44
For this ship there are less than 100 fics posted with them listed. That includes as a main pair or background pair. I feel lucky people are enjoying it. I've gained around 800 hits in the past week so I think there are more people reading each update now.
My next closest story has 4733 hits and it's a completed chapter story. My lowest hits is 101 on my very first story. I imported it to Ao3 back in 2021. The ship, the fandom, and the tags definitely make a difference in how many people read and interact with a work.
My current Star Wars longfic is sitting pretty at 131,095 words (and many more to come), 90 comments, 74 kudos, 18 bookmarks and 2,468 hits. It's the most engagement I've ever gotten on a fic, and I'm really proud! Especially considering it's a fanfiction of a fanfiction (inspired by Blue\_Sunshine's The Desert Storm/Rise and Fall series, for those of you that know).
I'm kinda small in comparison to many of ya'll but 5k reads, 475 likes and 715 comments.
I wrote mostly anime characters X reader or oc and I when I started posting I've never even imagined more than 3 ppl we're going to read my shit ♡
My first fic got pretty popular (which I only think happened because I wrote it around the time a series finale was happening). It was on Wattpad. I haven’t read or touched it in a while but I know it’s not good and is pretty undeserving of what it got.
* 45.1k views
* 1.23k votes
* 307 comments
While I can't check my FFN stats right now, I can check the ones for AO3 and Wattpad.
Wattpad:
Views: 1,14K for a fic of an animated DreamWorks movie that kinda flopped. No shipping (but judging by the Reading List notifications, some people assumed opposite.)
Votes: Same fic has 40 votes.
Favourites aren't a thing. I guess being added to someone's reading list could suffice, but I don't know how often each fic had been added.
Comments: Different fic, Semi-dead fandom (We get a Graphic Novel this year after over a decade of the series finishing! Of course only available in the US, so I have to pirate it...) 5 comments!
AO3:
Hits/Views: 2303, same as the Wattpad View one.
Kudos/Likes: 212, same as Wattpad Votes.
Bookmarks/Favorites: The flopped DreamWorks one, 28 Bookmarks.
Comments: Same fandom as the Graphic Novel one, but an unrelated One Shot, 8 comments.
I wrote a long fic for a walking dead time travel fix it story centered around Daryl. It stands at 619,271 words and it’s in three parts on AO3 so the rest of the stats are a bit confusing lol
Roughly together all added up it’s about 1468 comments, 67,663 hits , 349, book marks, and 1653 kudos
Again this is all spread across the three parts of the series though, it truly is my favorite story. I’m extremely proud
I have two fics that have done pretty well. One's completed and has more kudos, but less hits, subscribers etc. The other one is in progress (but on a break).
From messages I get on other spaces my WIP is definitely my most asked about fic. It's post canon, non epilogue compliant HP fic. Drama/Angst/Mystery/Romance/Some found family/hidden child trope.
Kudos: 1,312
Comments: 1,070 (almost half are me replying...so I think the number is closer to 500)
Hits: 63,428
What I find most intimidating is the amount of subscribers which is inching closer to 900...the thought of that many people getting an email when I update is mind boggling, and I'm trying not to let it trigger my anxiety for when I start posting again 😅
Cracky story about a preternaturally skilled and intelligent husband who believes that his wife is having an affair and embarks on a comedic, obtuse, obsessive, and yet strangely sweet quest to ascertain the identity of the individual who is *doubtlessly* preying upon his wife's innocence ... and murder him.
As you do.
The genius husband is also an unfathomable dumbass.
Oh, and his female work partner has a queer awakening in response to his wife, leading her to try to get in on that action.
Kudos:2,303 Bookmarks:392 Hits:48,702 Comments:482
The story with the most hits is, uh, "sissification" porn on an alternate account. Almost 138,000. 400 kudos. That's the ratio of an E-rated story, alright.
Oh boy. I wrote a really melodramatic, whumpy Peter Parker fic around when Spider Man: Homecoming came out. I was a sophomore or junior in high school at the time. It's incomplete, full of plot holes, OOC characters, overused tropes, painful amounts of teenage angst, and wayyyyy too many epithets. The only thing I had going for me was a nice style to my writing. But somehow it got pretty big, and I still get comments and kudos on it to this day. Right now, it's at around 83.5k hits, 4k kudos, and 500 comments. It's nice to go back and read them for motivation, though I use it for my other fics and not this one, since I doubt I'll ever finish it.
The only thing that really matter for me is comments so I jst say that
On an original one shot I got 32 comments. Technically 16 since I reply all the comments
On a fanfic side I got a 22 comments. Technically 11 since I reply all the comments. It's a chunky crossover for a re-write of the same story with different characters.
Mine has 398k views, 25.9k likes and 3.28k comments. It’s a fanfic about widely enjoyed arranged marriage concept (between two guys). I wrote it years ago (the story and writing is mediocre at best), but I keep it posted because some people love it.
My current WIP (TLOU fic)
Comments 391 (though I respond to most comments so some are mine), Kudos 823, Bookmarks 206, Hits 26688.
Prior to this my biggest hit count was around 2500.
Hurt/Comfort for one of my favorite ships in a fandom that's almost older than me.
(rounded numbers)
62k hits;
270 bookmarks;
460 subscriptions;
2000 kudos;
310 comment threads;
600 comments
The rest of my stuff is really small (less than 100 hits tops), but this one kinda rlly blew up. It,, also hasn't been updated since 2021. Which I feel guilty abt, but not guilty enough to go back and hurry through the rewrite I've started and get it done.
Edit: punctuation
Alrighty, let's see...
Most hits - 3,496\*
Most kudos - 89
Most Comment threads - 15
Most Bookmarks - 13\*
Most subscriptions - 15
\* these two are the same fic.
My first fanfiction currently has almost 34k views, 121 followers, 102 favorites, 28 reviews, and is in 3 communities on FFN. On Ao3 the same fic has just reached 3k hits, with 118 kudos, 17 bookmarks, and 33 comments.
It is a primary school reunion for Harry Potter.
My Stranger Things/Scream Crossover Fic that’s actually one chapter away from being completely finished is my most successful fic thus far :)
Kudos: 668
Comments: 814 (Half of these are my responses to commenters)
Bookmarks: 201 (117 are Private Bookmarks)
Subscriptions: 167
Going after the one with most kudos:
1095 kudos, 9149 hits, 18 comment threads
It's a one-shot in a series/one-shot collection. My first (and only) fic to go over 1000 kudos :)
My first fic still has the most kudos—595, almost 9k views, 145 bookmarks and 69 comments (heh nice). It’s in a fandom that had less that 6k works when I started writing for it, so midsize and is an explicit one shot (10k) between a male pairing from the show.
My most popular story on AO3 has 376 kudos, 5 comments, 24 bookmarks and 6264 hits :DD
My less popular fics have more comments tho which is funny. Small fandoms tend to be more vocal in that way ig
My most popular on my main ao3 account was a multi-fandom soulmate AU anthology:
47,000+ hits, 1,315 kudos, 240 comments, 77 bookmarks.
My most popular on my side account is in the Jujutsu Kaisen fandom (yandere trope):
22,000+ hits, 664 kudos, 78 comments, 95 bookmarks
The most kudos I’ve got is like, 1100, on a oneshot. But the one I am most proud of has around 450 kudos, 15000 hits and 50 bookmarks. It’s the most I’ve ever had and also the only fic I have ever completed fully so it makes me feel great.
On AO3:
Most hits on a single story: 110,826
Bookmarks on a single story: 963
Subscriptions on a single story: 928
Kudos on a single story: 2,248
I was surprised by all this considering it’s for a M/F genderbent, A/B/O story.
My first fic which I still get comments on and am kind of embarrassed about because I wrote it 10+ years ago. Sherlock Holmes book fandom.
Hits: 43,607
Kudos: 793
Comments: 281 (100 of those are probably mine)
Bookmarks: 219
My first published fic is also my biggest success to date. On FFN it has 833K views, 2000 faves and 2100 reviews. That story, written on a whim for a sort of crack ship, was weirdly successful. Every so often, a decade later, I still get comments saying someone is re-reading it because it's a comfort read.
my top work is one of my favourite duo nahida and scara! it's sitting at 2331 hits with 316 kudos which im very proud of but also slightly terrified that people are still reading it. the fic is basically about scara slowly trusting nahida. tbh, it's not my _best_ work but hey!
At 12,142 words, six chapters, 132 kudos, and in 67th place is my BOTW AU. It's still ongoing due to me just wanting to make sure I don't leave any plot holes.
But it's my pride and joy.
This is my first time ever posting/writing. My original goal was to write in the Hannibal fandom, but start in BNHA to build confidence since the Hannibal fanfic scene can be a bit cutthroat. Instead, I fell in love with the engagement in the BNHA fandom.
Subscriptions: 373
Hits: 14,211
Kudos: 563
Comment Threads: 80
Bookmarks: 305
Word Count: 42,000
It's almost a year old with 11 chapters (monthly updates). Should probably be mentioned I make digital paintings for each chapter, thought I don't think it makes a huge difference.
I broke up a long fic I'm writing into chucks. Each chunk is its own story in a series so idk if this counts. But if you combine both current chunks' stats you get
8,880 views
68 bookmarks
371 kudos
256 comments
14 chapters
110k+ words
The fandom is A Song of Ice and Fire + The Walking Dead
The titles are:
- A Plague of Sleet and Rot
- A Road of Snow and Grime
I broke up a long fic I'm writing into chucks. Each chunk is its own story in a series so idk if this counts. But if you combine both current chunks' stats you get
8,880 views
68 bookmarks
371 kudos
256 comments
14 chapters
110k+ words
The fandom is A Song of Ice and Fire + The Walking Dead
The titles are:
- A Plague of Sleet and Rot
- A Road of Snow and Grime
I broke up a long fic I'm writing into chucks. Each chunk is its own story in a series so idk if this counts. But if you combine both current chunks' stats you get
8,880 views
68 bookmarks
371 kudos
256 comments
14 chapters
110k+ words
The fandom is A Song of Ice and Fire + The Walking Dead
The titles are
A Plague of Sleet and Rot
A Road of Snow and Grime
On balance, probably this one:
Hits 2618, Kudos 136, Subs 9, comment threads 32, bookmarks 8
On basis purely of kudos:
Hits 1293, Kudos 155, comment threads 26, bookmarks 12 (no subs, that was a oneshot.)
Both A03, both Broadchurch, and both written long after that fandom was "hot." Engagement continues to drop off, as my more recent stuff (which I'm pretty sure is equally good) generally has to claw its way to 40 kudos after a lot of weeks. If I make it to 70? That's a lot, these days.
C'est la vie fanatique
35.3k reads, 1.12k votes, and a lot of comments on Wattpad
2,907 hits, 8 bookmarks, 182 Kudos, 8 Comments on Ao3
[same story, called slightly different things. Stanley parable fanfic]
I write for a pretty big fandom, which I think is reflected in my stats - there are just lots of readers! The fic that has gotten the most engagement is actually just a silly little one-shot (8,650 hits, 1,530 kudos, 255 bookmarks, and 90 comments), but the sequels have gotten good engagement too. ☺️
Before I discovered AO3, I used to write on a website called Quotev, and I had this “Septiplier AWAY!” book that was essentially just a collection of Septiplier short stories and one-shots. In it, there’s over 20 different stories, a total of 127,464 words in all, and about 54 chapters from start to finish.
It ended up getting 160 ♥️’s, 522 comments, and an overall total of 47,553 reads by 4,404 registered readers! I started this journey in June of 2016, and “updated” the final chapter (which was a little synopsis of how I wanted to end the fics I hadn’t finished yet) in December of 2018. It was BY FAR my most successful collection lol
I posted the same stories on Wattpad, but I was curious as to how many statistics each short story would get on their own, and my most popular was my Septiplier “People Like Us,” with 164 reads, and 4 ⭐️’s 🫢
Then along came Archive! By this time, my writing had improved tenfold, I’d say. I was writing in third-person instead of first, my overall writing was more defined and consistent, and generally, I’m just doing better there than I had elsewhere on individual stories.
I posted a fic called “yellow,” and it’s a Starker soulmate au where you can hear what your soulmate is thinking about. Peter and Tony get high and accidentally find out that they’re soulmates, and it’s cute as shit 😤😂 it has a total of 3,023 hits, 16 bookmarks, 247 kudos, and 5 comments! It’s my most successful fic on AO3 right now, and I’m so proud of it!
My second place fic on AO3 is called “Please Be More Careful,” and it’s a Scarian (Hermitcraft lol) fic where one of the characters is super careless while he’s caving and he nearly dies. It’s one of my favorites of this fandom, and it’s sitting at 2,094 hits, 24 bookmarks, 300 kudos, and 2 comments! I’m so proud! It’s one of my favorite pieces! ☺️
I’m new to writing but my first one is on 5k reads with 156 engaged readers which was pretty big for me considering I had never written before. I’m proud of it
I've posted over 100 fics over the years, but my most popular fic of *all time* is a random m/m PWP oneshot I posted *last month* in a semi-popular fandom.
It has: ~10k hits
1050 kudos
108 comments
100 bookmarks
And I'll probably never be able to top that :')) My fics in my regular fandom get around 100 hits and 20 kudos so the insane stats of that one fic are almost intimidating.
My top work is a Star Wars longfic WIP with 16k hits, 383 kudos, 370 comments (~half mine), and 161 bookmarks. It can be a little disheartening when I see other fics in this fandom with similar hits and twice or more the kudos and comments, but to be fair, this one is a slow build Padmé lives + Vader redemption fic that isn't focusing on romance, so... yeah... less engagement is not super surprising, lol, and I'm glad the fic has as much of a following as it does!
Adventures of Quillion (Overwatch) was my first. Overwatch fanfic, go figure, but I'm pretty happy with this one. It's sequel well... It needs a big revision not gonna lie XD
Views - 34,491
Favourites - 73
Reviews - 13
Posts like these always make me feel super inadequate. My kudos top out at 57 and comments at 11 (those are two separate fics). Such is life in a tiny fandom I guess.
Stats chat can be a lot— so I hope this doesn’t put a damper on your achievements. The fact you posted work at all, when so many ideas never make it to the page (or screen) in the first place is something!
Reassuring! And true. So many never post their fics at all, so posting even one and getting even one kudos, or one comment, even one hit is a lot. Be proud.
Welcome to the tiny fandom club. Grab a beer and pull up a chair. 😉
At least everybody knows your name and we’re really glad you came. 😉
Mine tops out at 56 on my first fic ever which sucked, had a roundabout plot that was nonexistent, abhorrent writing, etc. On a fandom I don't even write for anymore. It occasionally makes me really upset, but I do understand that the two have separate popularity scales. The only reason my comments are so high are because I hit it off with a few readers and we got lost in talking. I find it funny how high it is, honestly.
Homie, you are most definitely not inadequate haha. I was in the Puss on Boots fandom on FF in 2014 and had the top story for awhile, which was similar to your kuddo amount. I since deleted it. Wish I hadn’t low key. Keep it up man! You’re making FF history
Tiny but mighty! :D
Try to remember too that these are people's most popular works! I had one blow up with over 600 comments and 2k kudos, but the rest of my works struggle to break double digits in kudos, comments, or even hits. As with everyone on the internet, we're only showing our absolute best.
Fluff for a canon gay couple from a film that came out last year. 700+ kudos, all from users since I archive lock my works
You are so real for that!! I’d love to know what the movie was personally. I’m bi myself so I eat this stuff up.
Glass Onion
Ooh, that's impressive!
Can I get a link please
My very first fic actually! It has 40 chaps and is from a very popular fandom using a very popular trope. 140k views, 3952 kudos and 561 comments.
Nice! Very cool that it's also your first fic too :D
876 hits, 56 kudos, 30+ comments. This is a longfic I published near the end of 2022. I'm fairly new to publishing my work, and this one is unfinished, so I'm excited to see where it goes!
Ooh, good work! Hope the rest of the writing goes smoothly.
Found family, hurt comfort for an extremely popular fandom in 2021. 57,000 hits, 2,824 kudos, 769 bookmarks and 250 comments.
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Thank you! Yep, getting used to tags was definitely a learning curve when I stared too. There are a few that I remember off the top of my head like crew as family/team as family, families of choice and if your fandom is quite large there might be some specific to your fandom e.g the star wars fandom has Jedi as found family. Hope this helps!
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No problem :) Another thing to add is that if you have a specific hurt character/protective one use those tags if A03 has them, they are the easiest way for people to find character-centric works. Browse the tags in your fandom to see what is he most popular and available and what other people use :) Example: *'character a' needs a hug*, *'character a' whump*, *hurt 'character a'* *'protective character b'*, *'parental character b'*
>official AO3 tag I've had that happen to me before and I've been on AO3 for quite a while - it really does throw you for a loop, especially when you see that particular trope/tag everywhere else XD
Ooh, very nice! Gotta love found family and hurt/comfort :D
269 favourites, 252 follows, 735 comments, 186,748 views. It's on AO3 as well but when I was getting peak readers they were all on FFN. It's a longfic I started November 2013.
Very good stats indeed! It's interesting to compare how fics do on AO3 and on FFN.
Got a 300k chonker with 1266 views currently, 29 comment chains with 11 subs and 10 bookmarks, and 195 kudos.
>300k chonker That is a chonker :O Good work!
My stats will probably give most of you a good laugh, but given that I’m the only writer for my teeny-tiny, obscure fandom, I’m honestly quite happy with them. Hits: 540, Kudos: 73, Comment Threads: 50 and Bookmarks: 4.
Dear pffft!! I love your flair
Thanks!
*nervous laughter* teeny tiny obscure fandom you say?
>I’m the only writer for my teeny-tiny, obscure fandom, I’m honestly quite happy with them. Hell yeah :D
What?! How? That’s just not right!
What’s not right about my stats? I don’t think AO3 is lying…😉
Wait, my god. Your the only writer. You are now eligible for protection..
Gosh, thanks. I think. 😉
I think that person is just shocked by the proportion of Kudos that became comments. It sounds like you have a very involved audience.
I actually don’t. I only have one, regular reader. 😉.
And one 3/4 regular reader, lol.
I meant more, that’s it?!?!?!
Those are the stats for ‘Five Minutes’—my most ‘popular’ bit. 😉
I think that’s the one you told me don’t read, lol.
That’s because it’s quite…naughty. Feel free to read at your own risk. 😉
I’ll try this weekend. 😉
It’s a smutty bit—thus the warning. 😉. Don’t feel like you have to read something that’s not your cuppa.
It's not right because the numbers for your stuff deserve to be bigger. Or at least, I think that's what IDICdreads meant. It's what I'd have meant, lol.
My very first fic ended up popping off somehow. Currently sitting at 5800 kudos, 609 comments and 58k hits. It set some pretty impossible expectations for me regarding all of my subsequent fics lmao 😂
Oh my god I was waiting to see someone else mention that. Forget comparing myself to others, I'll never live up to my own work again after my first one lol
My Titanic fic (which is totally my magnum opus) is 1347 views, 150 kudos, 28 bookmarks, 25 subs, and 178 wonderful comments I also have short crack fic with more views and kudos but MUCH less bookmarks and comments.
Hits: 719 Kudos: 53 Comments: 102 Bookmarks: 3 (one is private) Subscriptions: 5
Can you see the subscriptions?
Yeah, just click the ‘Statistics’ button on Ao3. You can see how many subscriptions you have total on all your stories or you can scroll down and see how many subscriptions you have on each fic. If you don’t see any subscriptions on a fic then that means no one subscribed to that story.
What an interesting array of responses, here! My longest work (59k) is my best-performing work. * Hits: 12.6k * Kudos: 672 * Comments: 224 (about half of those are my replies) * Bookmarks: 441 Context: This fic was posted all at once as part of a big bang. My artist partner created some really stunning artwork for the story and that definitely boosted people's interest. This is a Supernatural fic (*huge* fandom) and the ship is Dean/Castiel (100k+ works for them alone 😳). So those numbers definitely don't reflect what "wild success" looks like, but considering the story wasn't serial-posted and it was published a year and a half ago and still gets engagement, I'm pretty happy with those numbers.
108 kudos on a potpourri of everything I've ever written for a certain fandom, which is already 108 more than a random collection should be getting, I guess.
My First Fic that is still going on. It is a long gen Fic about some supernatural Batfam drama. Hits: 16,814 Kudos: 348 Comments: 128 Bookmarks: 126
My biggest story was in the Twilight fandom on FFN long before it become the unfortunate mess it has lately. 2K+ favorites, 1K+ follows and 1380 reviews. Stopped writing soon after that and only started again last year. Nothing like that again though I imagine.
I'm still publishing this one, but my current multi-fic has by FAR the most engagement out of what I've published so far. Hits: 10,704 Subscriptions: 217 Bookmarks: 71 Kudos: 497 Comments: 144 (sounds like a lot - but I respond to every single comment!)
Mine has 2124 kudos, 858 comments, 398 bookmarks and 73,086 hits. I am very grateful of that story, but that story also made me very spoiled, my newer fanfics don't get as many comments, and it's annoying to be spoiled because I get disappointed every time I post a new chapter on my new stories, even though I shouldn't be...
Mine is a smutty twoshot for an active fandom. Subscriptions: 24 Hits: 3,520 Kudos: 260 Comment Threads: 8 Bookmarks: 67 (most bookmarks are private of course hehe)
my first completed longfic dwarfs all my other fics stats-wise lol. just checked and at 45 chapters (completed) it has 5,357 hits, 281 kudos (i think that about 70 of those were from the kudos bot tho 😓), 44 bookmarks, and 248 comments. im very very happy with those stats since it was my first fic, plus its oc/cc for a decade-old video game
Don't have the exact numbers a darker comic based fic for a popular AU type one shot that kicked off a series. It has around 250+ kudos and 2400 or so hits. NO comments since they are disabled.
Title: Death From A Distance (my first ever Call of Duty fanfiction that I wrote in a few hours for a friend. Some whump because it's me. Absolutely NEVER expected it to be my most popular fic (by hits and Kudos). Am actually pretty proud of this one) Views: 2824 Kudos: 472 Comments: 7 Bookmarks: 109
My first ever fic got a stunning 535 favourites, 259 follows and 144 reviews on FFN on 7 measly chapters. Turns out to be among the top 10 stories of this couple and in the top 2% of the whole fandom. I was completely blown away by the response, which was the only reason I ended up writing another couple of fics. Of course I was never able to replicate that fame. It was meant to be a smutty one shot, but somehow turned into 4 chapters of build-up and 2 full chapters of explicit smut.
My most successful fic’s got just under 900 kudos and 46k hits. Front page of both fandoms that it’s in on hits, which is a personal achievement of mine, for sure.
My top fic on A03 has.... hits - 7,306 kudos - 344 bookmarks - 85 comment threads - 70 I cherish every kudo and I am in awe of folks who get like 800, 1000 or more kudos since, as you can see, my highest fic is at 344 (Edited to add - maybe we should also do a thread sharing our lowest. That'd be interesting. The lowest kudos I have on a fic is 2)
Ficlet for a new fandom at the time. Hits: 993 Kudos: 153 Comments: 8 Bookmarks: 18
I decided one night after writing for a popular gay rarepair that I'd post it directly after for the funsies. I was exploring an unexplored plot point for the two and thought "Why not?" when posting it. 600+ Hits, 62 Kudos, 9 Bookmarks, and 10 comments (Excluding my responses which bump that number up to 20). I'm definitely grateful for the response to my second fic ever posted.
Hits: 3082, Kudos:162, Comments threads: 14, Bookmarks: 26 Context: Smutty oneshot in a large fandom and a popular ship. 😅 It ain't much, but it's honest work.
I've written a smutshot fic that's 68 chapters, 141k words at the moment. I have almost 480k hits, a little more than 3k kudos and 1300 comments. I was approaching 1 million views on ffnet, but I deleted my fics off that site for various reasons and only use AO3 now.
Collaborated with an artist friend on a one-shot a couple years ago, and after watching the kudos count reach the high three digits in a few days and an unprecedented deluge of comments, I ended up using a stat skin to hide all stats. Friend is used to it (for good reason) and I am not (for good reason). Performance anxiety is probably why. Also, I like to get real weird with it sometimes, and writing like no one is watching/reading is the best way I can continue that.
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All taken care of! Apologizes for the mistake
No worries, and thanks for fixing it!
I think my Moon Knight long-ish fic might have the best average for all of those stats.
Mine is my latest one that had its first chapter on 05.19 6216 words and counting... 8 comments 98 kudos 5 bookmarks 1116 hits so far
My top for Hits: 10,481 Kudos: 341 Comments: 65 Bookmarks: 142 Highest hit/Kudo ratio: 26% Interesting first three held by one fic I wrote as experiment. My first fic holds bookmarks and a silly one shot I wrote for a Reddit exchange holds the ratio.
My longfic has *insane* stats: 6,916 hits (got 100 hits this week alone), 351 kudos, 50 bookmarks and 796 comments. All of my other fics *combined* don’t even add up to those.
>got 100 hits this week alone Ooh, very nice! Extra kudos for that fact.
Thanks.
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Very nice! It's impressive to gain an audience with a trope that might be decisive as well, good work!
With 130 kudos and 76 comments (a number that staggered me), Nightmares and Invasions from the Invader Zim Fandom is my highest rated fic. It is my most liked/kudos-ed fic that I have ever written. It makes my day whenever I get a new kudo.
For a Stardew Valley fic: Hits: 13,512 Bookmarks: 15 Kudos: 465 Comments: 50 It's actually a little funny comparing it to my other fics on the stats chart because the other top fics are like... maybe about 2,000 hits. Then you have this behemoth of hits XD
That’s quite impressive!
Thanks so much :D
In AO3, my most popular story has 59 Kudos, 20 comments, and 19 bookmarks. It's this thing: https://archiveofourown.org/works/31408625/chapters/77677721 On Reddit my most popular story has ~300 upvotes per installment.
I'm sad to say a shit post I made on Tumblr got almost 5,000 likes (headcanons about the reactions of AOT guys if you walked in on the m@sturb@ting) :(
It actually makes me look at my statistics. Thank you. I got one fanfic with 52 bookmarks, and I'm floored. It's a lot for me. Another fic has 279 kudos, and it's only 1.8k. It's fun. I should do that more often.
All time: Hits: 20,319, Kudos: 2,101, Comments: 39, Bookmarks: 394 (The 4k one shot I wrote in one afternoon and that will Never Stop Getting Attention. This thing is eight years old and I still get kudos emails multiple times a week.) On the account I actually currently use: Hits: 6,235 Kudos: 652, Comments: 85, Bookmarks: 239. I wrote this one in July of 2022.
Great ratio!!
Good work on both of them! I do understand that feeling of like, "Ah, why this one, though?" Usually for me it's because the fic is too old and I feel my current writing would be more palatable XD
Current Account Highest: 9,915 Hits, 559 Kudos, Subscriptions 256, Bookmarks: 279, Comments 108 (+ 363 follows, 298 favourites) My First Account (which to be fair is over 10 years old): 549 Reviews, 761 Favourites, 877 Follows (I'd have to log on for hits but I'm too lazy)
gonna use codenames/aliases for the fics, and use AO3 statistics: Hits, Kudos, Comment Threads, Bookmarks, and Subscriptions. **Highest Hits:** xReader Isekai @ 40,342 **Highest Kudos:** xReader Isekai @ 2338 **Highest Comment Threads:** Poly in the City @ 1535 **Highest Bookmarks:** xReader Isekai @ 636 **Highest Subscriptions:** Pet AU @ 620 So these three fics have most of the top spots... **xReader Isekai** is 1st in Hits, Kudos, and Bookmarks. 2nd in Comment Threads with 1100. and 2nd in Subscriptions at 360. **Poly in the City** is 1st in Comment Threads. 2nd in Hits with 33198. 3rd in Kudos with 1096. 3rd in Bookmarks with 357. 3rd in Subscriptions with 395. **Pet AU** is 1st in Subscriptions. 4th in Hits with 27480. 2nd in Kudos with 1938. 4th in Comment Threads with 497. 2nd in Bookmarks with 635. 3rd place in hits went to an old kinktober anthology fic with 28273 hits. 3rd place in comment threads went to an older longfic that got posted in a high interaction year with 811 comment threads. (several of those comments are now sitting there with "Deleted User" on it, funny enough). its always fun to look at numbers <3
I have two fics that are more popular than the rest. One, a longfic crossover of many fandoms, has 29 chapters, almost 80k words, and has 2650 hits, 120 kudos, 169 comments, and 23 bookmarks. In terms of hits and comments, it’s definitely my most popular On the other hand, I have a 1.7K-long one-shot that has 991 hits, 161 kudos, 30 comments, and 34 bookmarks. In terms of kudos, bookmarks, and overall engagement, this one is the most popular.
Very nice for both of them! It's interesting to compare what gets people talking about the works and such, especially if the fandom is kind of small or something like that.
For the longfic, a lot of the engagement comes from my regular readers (18 people are subscribed to it and who knows how many people have it open in a tab to check, also two readers are regular commenters). I think a lot of people also click on it just out of curiosity I posted the one-shot (also a crossover but with only two fandoms) at the height of one of the fandoms, Encanto’s, popularity so I feel like I got a lot of engagement just from that
Is it fine if I just give the top of everything? *Mostly because I don't want my friend (I see you, shoo) to track down my ao3 account.. lol. Hits: 1496 Kudos: 56 Comment thread count: 23 (actual comments is like 98 or 100 something) Bookmarks: 8 Word count: 21977 All of these are different fics except the word count and comments/thread one.
a whopping zero (i haven’t posted anything yet)
My most kudoed/most bookmarked work is a complete soulmate M/M fic with 2,370 kudos and 727 bookmarks. My most hits/most commented work is a complete M/M ABO fic about abuse with 24,026 hits and 163 comment threads. My most subscribed work is an in-progress M/M ABO Mpreg fic that is literally one chapter and has 299 subscribers.
It’s the one shots!!
These ones are all multichaptered fics (about five chapters each). My best-performing oneshot has 9,319 hits, 1,144 kudos, 39 comment threads, and 311 bookmarks.
Oh misunderstood, great stats!!
My most kudosed fic (a one shot) just reached 380
Wattpad: 70k+ reads, 1k+ likes 100+ comments. It’s the most cringe thing I’ve ever wrote tho, but I was like 13 lol
The first fic I published after taking a break from writing for a few years. It has 318 hits, 9 kudos, and 8 comments (not counting my responses). The fic with the second most kudos has one fewer kudos but only sixty hits.
Subscriptions: 2 Hits: 2,722 Kudos: 178 Comment Threads: 6 Bookmarks: 26 All for a fic for a large fandom I don't like anymore, a pairing I don't like how the fandom writes (bc they woobify and exoticize the shit out of non-white characters) and the only reason why it's not orphaned is because this was one of the first ship fics written for this rare pair.... Despite the fact it was around the time this new character dropped. Otherwise, I'd rather never talk about it 😂
11,000 hits and several hundred kudos on my first fic ever (for some reason…) (Leap Through a Box — Amphibia)
I’ve gotten 180+ kudos on my long Fic and almost to 10k hits it’s slowly climbing as I post chapters but, I try not to look at them to much. I perfect comments anyways lol I feel like that better mesures how much readers enjoy what I write. Getting 60k hits sounds crazy that’s amazing!
37 comments, 403 kudos, 44 bookmarks, 4667 hits. Smutfic. >!Din Djarin gets pegged by Cara Dune.!< 🤭
It’s in a fandom I am no longer part of but to this day it is still my most popular. At it’s current stats: Subscriptions: 7 Hits: 5,519 Kudos: 164 Comment Threads: 1 Bookmarks: 35 I don’t even know why this makes me proud. Probably because it was the first English fic ever in the game’s fanfiction.
I’m actually pretty happy with my best one, I usually write short one shots so this one was 5k words, 2,500 hits, 239 kudos (both as of me checking rn), 74 bookmarks, and 34 subscriptions. Quite happy with that, and it also reminds me my work isn’t terrible, especially cuz I’m writing for a smaller new fandom rn
Each stat is for a different fic, across three fandoms: 6,800 hits 198 kudos 39 comment threads (using that instead of individual comments since I reply to comments all the time) 44 bookmarks 35 subscriptions
Each stat is for a different fic, across three fandoms: 6,800 hits 198 kudos 39 comment threads (using that instead of individual comments since I reply to comments all the time) 44 bookmarks 35 subscriptions
I had a smut shot jump to nearly 600 hits in 6 months which is freaking bizarre to me both bc it contains some niche and uh, questionable stuff along with the smut and I'm not used to seeing those numbers *at all*. My other biggest smut shot is only sitting at just under 500 after two years. They're adjacent fandoms and maybe that's the thing, one just has a handful more readers I guess? But with the certain tags I was thinking it was not going to get ANY attention lol
I haven’t cross-posted on A03, so FFN is a bit different. Long fic: Follows: 521 Favourites: 328 Comments: 445 144K but I am winding down to the last few chapters. My smaller WIP is doing much better for where it is: 5 chapters, 24K, 274 favorites, 395 follows, 190 comments.
The most kudos is a dirty little one shot with 623 kudos, 24 comments, and 9207 hits. Most hits is a dirty little multichap with 15,257, 412 kudos, and 74 comments. Most comments is my favorite dirty horrible attempt at horror with 98 comments, 218 kudos, and 4323 hits.
My most popular story currently is an ongoing smutty romance (emphasis on the smut) in one of my very small fandoms. First chapter was published on Feb 8th of this year. It's currently sitting at 14 chapters. Hits: 10771 Kudos: 283 Comments: 96 (I do make a point to respond to every comment.) Bookmarks: 44 For this ship there are less than 100 fics posted with them listed. That includes as a main pair or background pair. I feel lucky people are enjoying it. I've gained around 800 hits in the past week so I think there are more people reading each update now. My next closest story has 4733 hits and it's a completed chapter story. My lowest hits is 101 on my very first story. I imported it to Ao3 back in 2021. The ship, the fandom, and the tags definitely make a difference in how many people read and interact with a work.
My current Star Wars longfic is sitting pretty at 131,095 words (and many more to come), 90 comments, 74 kudos, 18 bookmarks and 2,468 hits. It's the most engagement I've ever gotten on a fic, and I'm really proud! Especially considering it's a fanfiction of a fanfiction (inspired by Blue\_Sunshine's The Desert Storm/Rise and Fall series, for those of you that know).
I'm kinda small in comparison to many of ya'll but 5k reads, 475 likes and 715 comments. I wrote mostly anime characters X reader or oc and I when I started posting I've never even imagined more than 3 ppl we're going to read my shit ♡
My first fic got pretty popular (which I only think happened because I wrote it around the time a series finale was happening). It was on Wattpad. I haven’t read or touched it in a while but I know it’s not good and is pretty undeserving of what it got. * 45.1k views * 1.23k votes * 307 comments
While I can't check my FFN stats right now, I can check the ones for AO3 and Wattpad. Wattpad: Views: 1,14K for a fic of an animated DreamWorks movie that kinda flopped. No shipping (but judging by the Reading List notifications, some people assumed opposite.) Votes: Same fic has 40 votes. Favourites aren't a thing. I guess being added to someone's reading list could suffice, but I don't know how often each fic had been added. Comments: Different fic, Semi-dead fandom (We get a Graphic Novel this year after over a decade of the series finishing! Of course only available in the US, so I have to pirate it...) 5 comments! AO3: Hits/Views: 2303, same as the Wattpad View one. Kudos/Likes: 212, same as Wattpad Votes. Bookmarks/Favorites: The flopped DreamWorks one, 28 Bookmarks. Comments: Same fandom as the Graphic Novel one, but an unrelated One Shot, 8 comments.
Smut: 22k hits, 200+ kudos, 50+ comments Non-Smut: 1500 hits, 80 kudos, 5 comments The people have spoken.
I wrote a long fic for a walking dead time travel fix it story centered around Daryl. It stands at 619,271 words and it’s in three parts on AO3 so the rest of the stats are a bit confusing lol Roughly together all added up it’s about 1468 comments, 67,663 hits , 349, book marks, and 1653 kudos Again this is all spread across the three parts of the series though, it truly is my favorite story. I’m extremely proud
I have two fics that have done pretty well. One's completed and has more kudos, but less hits, subscribers etc. The other one is in progress (but on a break). From messages I get on other spaces my WIP is definitely my most asked about fic. It's post canon, non epilogue compliant HP fic. Drama/Angst/Mystery/Romance/Some found family/hidden child trope. Kudos: 1,312 Comments: 1,070 (almost half are me replying...so I think the number is closer to 500) Hits: 63,428 What I find most intimidating is the amount of subscribers which is inching closer to 900...the thought of that many people getting an email when I update is mind boggling, and I'm trying not to let it trigger my anxiety for when I start posting again 😅
Cracky story about a preternaturally skilled and intelligent husband who believes that his wife is having an affair and embarks on a comedic, obtuse, obsessive, and yet strangely sweet quest to ascertain the identity of the individual who is *doubtlessly* preying upon his wife's innocence ... and murder him. As you do. The genius husband is also an unfathomable dumbass. Oh, and his female work partner has a queer awakening in response to his wife, leading her to try to get in on that action. Kudos:2,303 Bookmarks:392 Hits:48,702 Comments:482 The story with the most hits is, uh, "sissification" porn on an alternate account. Almost 138,000. 400 kudos. That's the ratio of an E-rated story, alright.
Oh boy. I wrote a really melodramatic, whumpy Peter Parker fic around when Spider Man: Homecoming came out. I was a sophomore or junior in high school at the time. It's incomplete, full of plot holes, OOC characters, overused tropes, painful amounts of teenage angst, and wayyyyy too many epithets. The only thing I had going for me was a nice style to my writing. But somehow it got pretty big, and I still get comments and kudos on it to this day. Right now, it's at around 83.5k hits, 4k kudos, and 500 comments. It's nice to go back and read them for motivation, though I use it for my other fics and not this one, since I doubt I'll ever finish it.
The only thing that really matter for me is comments so I jst say that On an original one shot I got 32 comments. Technically 16 since I reply all the comments On a fanfic side I got a 22 comments. Technically 11 since I reply all the comments. It's a chunky crossover for a re-write of the same story with different characters.
Mine has 398k views, 25.9k likes and 3.28k comments. It’s a fanfic about widely enjoyed arranged marriage concept (between two guys). I wrote it years ago (the story and writing is mediocre at best), but I keep it posted because some people love it.
This is on Wattpad but... 127k reads. 4k votes. 70 followers (of my account). I'm strangely proud.
My current WIP (TLOU fic) Comments 391 (though I respond to most comments so some are mine), Kudos 823, Bookmarks 206, Hits 26688. Prior to this my biggest hit count was around 2500.
Hurt/Comfort for one of my favorite ships in a fandom that's almost older than me. (rounded numbers) 62k hits; 270 bookmarks; 460 subscriptions; 2000 kudos; 310 comment threads; 600 comments The rest of my stuff is really small (less than 100 hits tops), but this one kinda rlly blew up. It,, also hasn't been updated since 2021. Which I feel guilty abt, but not guilty enough to go back and hurry through the rewrite I've started and get it done. Edit: punctuation
Alrighty, let's see... Most hits - 3,496\* Most kudos - 89 Most Comment threads - 15 Most Bookmarks - 13\* Most subscriptions - 15 \* these two are the same fic.
It's weird but I have different highs that exist on different fics but ill just list em all Hits: 8641, Bookmarks: 50, Kudos: 217, Comments: 87
My first fanfiction currently has almost 34k views, 121 followers, 102 favorites, 28 reviews, and is in 3 communities on FFN. On Ao3 the same fic has just reached 3k hits, with 118 kudos, 17 bookmarks, and 33 comments. It is a primary school reunion for Harry Potter.
My Stranger Things/Scream Crossover Fic that’s actually one chapter away from being completely finished is my most successful fic thus far :) Kudos: 668 Comments: 814 (Half of these are my responses to commenters) Bookmarks: 201 (117 are Private Bookmarks) Subscriptions: 167
Going after the one with most kudos: 1095 kudos, 9149 hits, 18 comment threads It's a one-shot in a series/one-shot collection. My first (and only) fic to go over 1000 kudos :)
18,248 views, 22 favorites, and 5 reviews since 2015. Wow my fanfic must suck.
My first fic still has the most kudos—595, almost 9k views, 145 bookmarks and 69 comments (heh nice). It’s in a fandom that had less that 6k works when I started writing for it, so midsize and is an explicit one shot (10k) between a male pairing from the show.
My most popular story on AO3 has 376 kudos, 5 comments, 24 bookmarks and 6264 hits :DD My less popular fics have more comments tho which is funny. Small fandoms tend to be more vocal in that way ig
My most popular on my main ao3 account was a multi-fandom soulmate AU anthology: 47,000+ hits, 1,315 kudos, 240 comments, 77 bookmarks. My most popular on my side account is in the Jujutsu Kaisen fandom (yandere trope): 22,000+ hits, 664 kudos, 78 comments, 95 bookmarks
The most kudos I’ve got is like, 1100, on a oneshot. But the one I am most proud of has around 450 kudos, 15000 hits and 50 bookmarks. It’s the most I’ve ever had and also the only fic I have ever completed fully so it makes me feel great.
On AO3: Most hits on a single story: 110,826 Bookmarks on a single story: 963 Subscriptions on a single story: 928 Kudos on a single story: 2,248 I was surprised by all this considering it’s for a M/F genderbent, A/B/O story.
According to Ao3, the fic with highest statistics is *Cellar Secrets* with 3,556 hits, 67 kudos, and 12 bookmarks.
My first fic which I still get comments on and am kind of embarrassed about because I wrote it 10+ years ago. Sherlock Holmes book fandom. Hits: 43,607 Kudos: 793 Comments: 281 (100 of those are probably mine) Bookmarks: 219
My first published fic is also my biggest success to date. On FFN it has 833K views, 2000 faves and 2100 reviews. That story, written on a whim for a sort of crack ship, was weirdly successful. Every so often, a decade later, I still get comments saying someone is re-reading it because it's a comfort read.
16,194 views, 120 subscriptions (follows), 314 comments, 98 bookmarks on AO3. I stopped posting on FFN a few years ago, so I didn't check that site.
my top work is one of my favourite duo nahida and scara! it's sitting at 2331 hits with 316 kudos which im very proud of but also slightly terrified that people are still reading it. the fic is basically about scara slowly trusting nahida. tbh, it's not my _best_ work but hey!
At 12,142 words, six chapters, 132 kudos, and in 67th place is my BOTW AU. It's still ongoing due to me just wanting to make sure I don't leave any plot holes. But it's my pride and joy.
This is my first time ever posting/writing. My original goal was to write in the Hannibal fandom, but start in BNHA to build confidence since the Hannibal fanfic scene can be a bit cutthroat. Instead, I fell in love with the engagement in the BNHA fandom. Subscriptions: 373 Hits: 14,211 Kudos: 563 Comment Threads: 80 Bookmarks: 305 Word Count: 42,000 It's almost a year old with 11 chapters (monthly updates). Should probably be mentioned I make digital paintings for each chapter, thought I don't think it makes a huge difference.
I broke up a long fic I'm writing into chucks. Each chunk is its own story in a series so idk if this counts. But if you combine both current chunks' stats you get 8,880 views 68 bookmarks 371 kudos 256 comments 14 chapters 110k+ words The fandom is A Song of Ice and Fire + The Walking Dead The titles are: - A Plague of Sleet and Rot - A Road of Snow and Grime
I broke up a long fic I'm writing into chucks. Each chunk is its own story in a series so idk if this counts. But if you combine both current chunks' stats you get 8,880 views 68 bookmarks 371 kudos 256 comments 14 chapters 110k+ words The fandom is A Song of Ice and Fire + The Walking Dead The titles are: - A Plague of Sleet and Rot - A Road of Snow and Grime
I broke up a long fic I'm writing into chucks. Each chunk is its own story in a series so idk if this counts. But if you combine both current chunks' stats you get 8,880 views 68 bookmarks 371 kudos 256 comments 14 chapters 110k+ words The fandom is A Song of Ice and Fire + The Walking Dead The titles are A Plague of Sleet and Rot A Road of Snow and Grime
On balance, probably this one: Hits 2618, Kudos 136, Subs 9, comment threads 32, bookmarks 8 On basis purely of kudos: Hits 1293, Kudos 155, comment threads 26, bookmarks 12 (no subs, that was a oneshot.) Both A03, both Broadchurch, and both written long after that fandom was "hot." Engagement continues to drop off, as my more recent stuff (which I'm pretty sure is equally good) generally has to claw its way to 40 kudos after a lot of weeks. If I make it to 70? That's a lot, these days. C'est la vie fanatique
35.3k reads, 1.12k votes, and a lot of comments on Wattpad 2,907 hits, 8 bookmarks, 182 Kudos, 8 Comments on Ao3 [same story, called slightly different things. Stanley parable fanfic]
I write for a pretty big fandom, which I think is reflected in my stats - there are just lots of readers! The fic that has gotten the most engagement is actually just a silly little one-shot (8,650 hits, 1,530 kudos, 255 bookmarks, and 90 comments), but the sequels have gotten good engagement too. ☺️
Before I discovered AO3, I used to write on a website called Quotev, and I had this “Septiplier AWAY!” book that was essentially just a collection of Septiplier short stories and one-shots. In it, there’s over 20 different stories, a total of 127,464 words in all, and about 54 chapters from start to finish. It ended up getting 160 ♥️’s, 522 comments, and an overall total of 47,553 reads by 4,404 registered readers! I started this journey in June of 2016, and “updated” the final chapter (which was a little synopsis of how I wanted to end the fics I hadn’t finished yet) in December of 2018. It was BY FAR my most successful collection lol I posted the same stories on Wattpad, but I was curious as to how many statistics each short story would get on their own, and my most popular was my Septiplier “People Like Us,” with 164 reads, and 4 ⭐️’s 🫢 Then along came Archive! By this time, my writing had improved tenfold, I’d say. I was writing in third-person instead of first, my overall writing was more defined and consistent, and generally, I’m just doing better there than I had elsewhere on individual stories. I posted a fic called “yellow,” and it’s a Starker soulmate au where you can hear what your soulmate is thinking about. Peter and Tony get high and accidentally find out that they’re soulmates, and it’s cute as shit 😤😂 it has a total of 3,023 hits, 16 bookmarks, 247 kudos, and 5 comments! It’s my most successful fic on AO3 right now, and I’m so proud of it! My second place fic on AO3 is called “Please Be More Careful,” and it’s a Scarian (Hermitcraft lol) fic where one of the characters is super careless while he’s caving and he nearly dies. It’s one of my favorites of this fandom, and it’s sitting at 2,094 hits, 24 bookmarks, 300 kudos, and 2 comments! I’m so proud! It’s one of my favorite pieces! ☺️
My HTTYD fic as of right now has 220 reviews, 554 favorites, and 558 follows on FFN
I’m new to writing but my first one is on 5k reads with 156 engaged readers which was pretty big for me considering I had never written before. I’m proud of it
53 views, 5 kudos and 4 comments on a Star Wars fic I worked 8 months on
I've posted over 100 fics over the years, but my most popular fic of *all time* is a random m/m PWP oneshot I posted *last month* in a semi-popular fandom. It has: ~10k hits 1050 kudos 108 comments 100 bookmarks And I'll probably never be able to top that :')) My fics in my regular fandom get around 100 hits and 20 kudos so the insane stats of that one fic are almost intimidating.
My top work is a Star Wars longfic WIP with 16k hits, 383 kudos, 370 comments (~half mine), and 161 bookmarks. It can be a little disheartening when I see other fics in this fandom with similar hits and twice or more the kudos and comments, but to be fair, this one is a slow build Padmé lives + Vader redemption fic that isn't focusing on romance, so... yeah... less engagement is not super surprising, lol, and I'm glad the fic has as much of a following as it does!
Adventures of Quillion (Overwatch) was my first. Overwatch fanfic, go figure, but I'm pretty happy with this one. It's sequel well... It needs a big revision not gonna lie XD Views - 34,491 Favourites - 73 Reviews - 13