We analyzed thousands of lines of data to figure out the most popular web series on Tumblr. It includes not one but two digital versions of a book published in 1897. Great job.
It's Critical you take a moment to see what else topped the list this year. ⤵
TOP 10 WEB VIDEO SERIES ON AO3 FOUND IN FANDOMS > OTHER MEDIA (2010-2023)
To make this ranking, all series titles in the Other Media category on November 29 (or the closest date to it) of every year were copy-pasted to Google Sheets, rearranged according to number of fanworks, and then manually filtered since not all web video series were marked as such.
Locked fanworks aren't included in the count because Wayback Machine can’t view those, only Ao3 users can.
Many authors started locking their works starting December 2022. It's most likely the reason the number of fanworks decreased or slowed down in 2023.
Bar chart starts at 2010 because there were no web series in Other Media in 2009.
The Dream SMP tag was only considered an Additional Tag in 2021-early 2022, which is why it's not listed in Other Media earlier than that.
Please refer to this post for more bar chart races.
Dedicating this post to @vsrobotjulie who requested this bar chart race.💕
Thanks for understanding and hopefully I didn’t mess up anywhere! 🙏
Monkey Wrench guys. If you haven't yet, go watch it. There's 3 episodes, and they're all amazing. It's worth your time, trust me.
Funny thing, @zeurelart (That guy behind a LOTS of youtube animation and creator of this superb series) was one of the many cartoonist I got inspired to try out animations myself back in the day.(...I'm more a Storyboarder/Comic book artist than an animation guy in the end, but that's not the point.)
His use of line, and exaggerated expressions is a pure delight to see. It's super hard to reach this kind of level in animation. He's good, like super good.
Anyways, you should watch this show if you haven't already, the character are great with a super detailed design, (Which is something rarer in animation nowadays) and even the universe built around it seems promising. I want to watch more of that !
Monkey Wrench (c) Joshua Palmer
Artwork made by me