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It appears that Wattpad is going through (apparently another) purge.
Now I don't use Wattpad, only visited once when someone uploaded an fan translated version of a cnovel that I found elsewhere, and I'm rather confused at the site in general and have avoided it for many reasons, however despite my own personal feelings about the place it really does suck especially for younger fans who discovered fanfiction there and posted their own works. Purges of fanworks is an unfortunate thing regardless of what is being targeted, and judging from the history and timeline of fandom purges it seems that Wattpad isn't unfamiliar with having purges and censorship of works that are posted on there. This is just the most recent one. Obviously this is why places such as Archive Of Our Own is important since its entire creation was built on not having shit like this happen. Basically, the best thing for Wattpad users is to backup their works and go elsewhere, be it AO3 or somewhere else.
Now I don't use Wattpad, only visited once when someone uploaded an fan translated version of a cnovel that I found elsewhere, and I'm rather confused at the site in general and have avoided it for many reasons, however despite my own personal feelings about the place it really does suck especially for younger fans who discovered fanfiction there and posted their own works. Purges of fanworks is an unfortunate thing regardless of what is being targeted, and judging from the history and timeline of fandom purges it seems that Wattpad isn't unfamiliar with having purges and censorship of works that are posted on there. This is just the most recent one. Obviously this is why places such as Archive Of Our Own is important since its entire creation was built on not having shit like this happen. Basically, the best thing for Wattpad users is to backup their works and go elsewhere, be it AO3 or somewhere else.
