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| The Buzz Log - Search Spikes and Trends |
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Fun With Fan Fiction
Saturday January 15, 2005 9:00PM PT
Creating your own story for familiar characters from TV and movies is an Internet staple. Queries on "Fan Fiction" usually keep the term hovering around our top 1,000 searches. Fan fic searches were up 147% yesterday, a decent and unexpected spike for a term that's already popular. The writers and readers of fan fic are mostly women -- 80% of searches are from females. It's also a young person's game -- with those under-24 dominating searches including a stunning 38% from 13-to-17 -year-olds. What inspires these writers? We decided to take a look at the top fan fiction searches over the past week, and here are the subjects near and dear to devoted fans.
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