Fanfic community craves familiarity much more than novelty—but reports greater enjoyment from novelty.
reallykindasorta @slrpnk.net - 5mon
Does someone feel like accessing the research article’s supplemental information and pasting here on how they operationalize “novelty” for the analysis? It’s formatted in .tex and I’m on my phone with no .tex reader but I’m curious!
squirrel in ghazi
Fanfic study challenges leading cultural evolution theory
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/07/what-fanfic-can-teach-us-about-cultural-evolution/Does someone feel like accessing the research article’s supplemental information and pasting here on how they operationalize “novelty” for the analysis? It’s formatted in .tex and I’m on my phone with no .tex reader but I’m curious!
Here is a (slightly broken) PDF: https://files.catbox.moe/il992g.pdf
Thank you!