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About
Fan art is artwork that is based on a character or story that was created by someone other than the creator, or a fan of a specific thing. It comes in a large variety of designs and styles, such as alternate universes, ponification, rule 34 and 63, and lots more.
History
Pre-Internet History
Fan art grew popular between the 60’s and the 70’s, at the time where Star Trek and Star Wars Fandoms started to grow,
Online
The fan art online grew with the creation of deviantART
Reception
Impact
Fandom
Sub memes
Rule 63
Rule 63 revolves around flipping the gender of someone or something specific, often giving them an anime-like appearance. The characters are often designed to show some form of sexual activity, similar to rule 34.
Rule 34
Rule 34 revolves around pornographic fan art depicting virtually anything. This has seen modest spread since its inception in October 2004.
Remenber this,if exist there is porn, doesn’t matter if the source is “friendly” there will be art of it
Alternate universe
Alternate Universe are stories in which the author deliberately alters the original canons of the story, thus creating an entirely new world with the original characters. for example, you can take a simple character such as Finn from Adventure time and put him inside the Death star, or take Hommer Simpson and put him in the doctor who universe.
untoons
Untoons are where cartoon characters are designed to be lifelike, as if they were a real person.
Grimdark
Grimdark is where characters are modified and edited to show a dark and negative appearance, usually these kind of fan art are created after some fan fictions or creepypastas, such as pokemon lost silver or mythical creature, like Slenderman.
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Shipping / Crack Pairing/Crossover
Shipping represents a love between two characters in any series that doesn’t exist in the actual series itself.
Crack Pairing are considered o be a normal shipping but depending on what is being used,the results are sometimes bizarre.
Crossovers are the encounter of two characters in any series that don’t represent a love between them.