today, they uploaded a video, a new (discussing interesting contemporary slang).  it was this video that they intended to use the fanfics for.  it's not actually ex. english teachers simon and martina (seriously did anyone remember that) who talked in these videos, it's their employee/intern soozee and leigh.  in the video, they talk about fanfiction slang like OTP, slash, oneshot, etc.  in the blogpost that goes along with the video, they said this.  (i will copy paste to get the actual content but ill link it below)

Hey guise. Martina here. Remember when we asked you this:

We wanted to share some of your favourite kpop fanfics for this post, which we thought would be appropriate given the topic. I am an avid fanfic reader myself, and I know that it can take a loooong time to scan, read, and flip through various fanfic communities in search of a favourite author or story. So, I thought I could enlist your help in finding some of the best kpop fanfics.

We got a lot of excited tweets and emails from fans of fanfic sharing their fav stories, as well as actual authors who wanted to share their stories with us. Oddly, though, there was an explosion of people that did not share in the excitement. For example:

Yup. The kpop fanfic community freaked out, shut down, and imploded over one tweet. People panicked over their assumptions about what we would create, over a video of ours that didn’t actually exist, since we were never going to made a review of fan fiction. All this fear and anger coming out of misconstrued conclusions formed in the rumour mill and passed along Tumblr. LET THIS BE A LESSON ON THE DANGERS OF GOSSIP!

We even got emails and tweets from people demanding that we must first ask permission before we use any fan fiction, as if they knew what we were going to do to begin with. When we responded to these people and linked them to our tweets, they had various responses like, “Oh, I don’t have twitter so I didn’t see that” or “I don’t follow you on twitter” or “oh I read about your filming in a forum”. Whut? So you didn’t even see our tweets, but you form conclusions and thought the worst without even looking into it?

After that we realized there was clearly no point of putting up another tweet explaining our actual intentions since:
A) Angry people don’t seem to listen to what we say anyway. They just like being angry and wading through Outrage
B) This video was coming out soon and would just explain it all away.

So if you’re one of the people who freaked out at us over the implosion of the Kpop Fanfic world, do some research first before you come to conclusions from secondhand accounts. And for those of you that locked up your once totally public fanfic accounts, be freeeeee knowing that we have zero interest in making a video reviewing your fanfic writing skills. We simply wanted to share your work with other readers. Now, everyone take a deep breath and put your stories back up online because you have fans that really want to read your stories. Or, more importantly, if online privacy is important to you, take more steps to ensure your privacy and the protection of your work, or – well – just don’t post stuff online if you’re afraid of online commentary.

cr. eyk

ok well if you want my personal opinion on this, i was never afraid they would criticize anyone's fic.  i think they're experienced enough in the interwebs to know what's going a bit far, and what will cause an uproar that could ultimately end their online careers. 

that said, i don't blame the authors for shutting down their fics, but those hate tweets were a bit out of hand.  some of those just make the tweet writers look immature and like they don't think things through. well.  im sure some of them are and didn't.  but lets not get into that.  im thinking now people will start getting mad at eyk for using their tweets without permission. jfc.

granted, we didn't know what they wanted to do with our fics, but making assumptions is never the way to go.  jfc it's like the people here move in a herd.  if one person thinks something, everyone starts thinking it. 

i mean yeah, eyk criticizes mvs and singers, but it's mostly for entertainment, yk.

i think this incident was just a miscommunication on both sides

edit:

im in the eatyourkimchi blog tag here and thank ing god there are people who agree with this being a complete overreaction

go read some

they're quite good

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plus people shouldn't be getting angry over their favorite authors and fics being removed because

well

they, we, don't write for you.

it really is kinda a privilige for you guys that we put them up for you to read anyways

so