The Illegal Fanfiction Death Games Of 2011, still drawing a crowd for Sarah Z
The 66-day-old essay has passed 400,000 views, on a week when no new video went up.
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The Illegal Fanfiction Death Games Of 2011
"The Illegal Fanfiction Death Games Of 2011" is a video essay about an online fandom that turned its writers against each other. It is two months old now, and on Sarah Z's channel it is still the one people keep finding. It has passed 400,000 views and draws about twice as many each day as anything else in her library.
Sarah posted nothing new over the week, and the channel ran a little quieter than usual. Her catalog kept turning anyway. Behind the fanfiction essay sits "The Rise and Fall of Misery Memoirs," her spring look at the publishing boom in harrowing childhood memoirs, now past three quarters of a million views. Further back is "The Narcissist Scare," a two-year-old essay on how the internet learned to diagnose its exes and coworkers. It passed a million views long ago and still picks up a steady trickle.
The description of the fanfiction video is mostly a music list, and it carries one of Sarah's asides: a running joke about how often the composer Ludvig Moulin turns up in her credits, enough, she writes, to give Kevin MacLeod some competition.
Among the internet commentary channels close to her size, it was a slow stretch for nearly everyone. Kat Blaque is the exception, running well above her usual pace, while Rachel Louise drew by far the most views of the group. Sarah, with her long essays and no new upload, gathered the fewest of the channels with a full week to compare. For a channel whose videos are built to be found months later, that is a pause.
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The videos drawing views on Sarah Z right now
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- Sarah Z
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- Channel views, last 7 days
- 61,891
- Videos published this week
- 0
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Sarah Z's essay looks at misery memoirs. Which 1995 memoir by Dave Pelzer became one of the best-known books of the genre?
Dave Pelzer's A Child Called "It", about severe abuse in his childhood, became one of the defining bestsellers of the misery memoir boom.
