{"id":91225,"date":"2025-07-19T09:40:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T14:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=91225"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:40:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T14:40:53","slug":"the-fanfic-community-seems-to-overwhelmingly-prefer-more-of-the-same-consistently-choosing-familiarity-over-novelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=91225","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe fanfic community seems to overwhelmingly prefer more of the same, consistently choosing familiarity over novelty\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2025\/07\/what-fanfic-can-teach-us-about-cultural-evolution\/\">https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2025\/07\/what-fanfic-can-teach-us-about-cultural-evolution\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is NOT generalizable to mass culture. But it is suggestive. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a good overview of fanfic for those who do not know it AND it is an example of data driven sociology-anthropology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201creally is a mystery how we evolve at all culturally; it&#8217;s not happening by gradual movement. We can see that there&#8217;s novelty. We can see that when people encounter novelty, they enjoy it. But we can&#8217;t quite make sense of how these two competing effects work out.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2025\/07\/what-fanfic-can-teach-us-about-cultural-evolution\/ This is NOT generalizable to mass culture. But it is suggestive. It\u2019s a good overview of fanfic for those who do not know it AND it is an example of data driven sociology-anthropology. \u201creally is a mystery how we &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=91225\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-91225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91226,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91225\/revisions\/91226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}