i think its really annoying that people saw like 5 teenagers complain about the download feature and started spewing hatred about how authors are entitled when most people were annoyed at the public gdrivesβ which resulted in that weird ass website (they themselves admitted to+
my main point about all of this has been about basic decency and respecting the tiniest boundaries like simply asking for consent or at least not being mean to people you're publicly sharing the works of but its whatever lol
the nerve to profit off of people's writing and then offer them their share as if you're doing them a favor when you made that profit without consent in the first place im genuinely so irritated
just found out two of my fics are put on that stupid fucking website where they offer a paid audiobook version thats just beautiful
ive been ia over here bc im lowkey not interested in anything rn and started grad school and need to *** but anyways let this ao3 shutdown be my official comeback statement which is that please do not put people's writings on public drives without their consent :D
you're not too woke and people creating PUBLIC drives and put other people's (esp the archive locked ones!!! they're locked for a reason!!!!) fics on there for everyone to have access to is very fucked as an author if anyone did this to me i'd be pissed off
