Wattpad’s alleged smut ban sends fan-fiction readers running to AO3
Wattpad readers, cancel the emergency evacuation.
Your mafia bosses, K-pop idols, vampires, and emotionally unavailable fictional boyfriends are safe for now.
Despite the panic spreading across TikTok, X, and Reddit, Wattpad says it has not banned smut .
The storytelling platform updated the language in its Content Guidelines on Aug.
10, prompting users to fear that sexually explicit stories were about to disappear and begin plotting a move to Archive of Our Own , better known as AO3.
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According to Wattpad, however, the rules themselves have not changed.
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