2016, Lucy Bennett, Bertha Chin, Bethan Jones, “Between Ethics, Privacy, Fandom, and Social Media: New Trajectories That Challenge Media Producer/Fan Relations”, in Amber Davisson, Paul Booth, editors, Controversies in Digital Ethics, page 109:
Can fans who write fanfic and post it to websites such as AO3, really complain when it is used elsewhere?
She has accumulated influences ranging from her mom's collection of Christian inspirational romance novels to 2AM shame-browsing on AO3 kink tags and everything in between.
2017, Judith May Fathallah, Fanfiction and the Author:How Fanfic Changes Popular Cultural Texts, page 39:
LiveJournal and AO3 rely largely on tags, whilst Fanfiction.net has genre and character filters as well as a keyword search.
2020, Milena Popova, “How Tumblr's Temporal Features Shape Community Memory and Knowledge”, in Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Stein, Indira Neill Hoch, editors, A Tumblr Book: Platform and Cultures, page 89:
The effect of Tumblr's ephemeral timescape was further exacerbated by many Hockey RPF fans' decision to delete works from the AO3.
2021, Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown, unnumbered page:
Gosh. Where on earth had that come from? She really needed to read less AO3 smut before bed.
