— ships
This year's ship stats are not all that surprising if you've been around the BTS ficdom for a while (or have followed these stats over the years). Taekook still steadily takes the lead, with jikook and yoonmin close behind. Vope, jinmin and vmon close the ranking.
— ships
This year’s ship stats look like this. It comes as no surprise that taekook takes the lead once again, followed as usual by jikook and yoonmin. In the tail end, most notably 2seok has made quite a jump up (second to last in 2020) and vmon sinks to the very last.
Now, Let's look at relative growth!
2seok has known the biggest increase, jumping by 9%- visible in the ship ranking as well, where they jumped up to
#15
, higher than ever! The biggest loss goes to vmin, who get bumped to
#7
.
— overall
as somewhat expected, the numbers of bts fic on ao3 keep dropping. we wrote 28.245 fics, which brings us back below 2018 levels. on a more cheery note though, we finished about 19.032 of those, which is 67.4%.
congrats to everyone who contributed!
Biggest relative growth this year goes to taejin! For the record, you read this chart as “we wrote x% more/less of this ship this year”. Note that this percentage will always look higher on small numbers.
— overall
In 2022, the BTS fandom updated 35.106 fics. A lot has happened in the past year, and so it's not that surprising that less fic was written compared to previous years! Here’s the overall progress of the total amount of fics.
But, of these 35.106 fics, 24.176 were finished, which is just shy of 69% (nice). Like every year, I have to congratulate everyone who contributed to this, both writers and readers! 🎉
Alright, with that, I am once again bidding you goodbye. Thank you for reading, thank you for continuing to write and read and kudos and comment on fic, and see you next year, perhaps!
Another chart without surprises: ot3 ships! As always, maknae line leads the chart by a huge amount. Yoonminhope (?) follows, and rapline completes the top three.
And to complete the not very surprising triad of charts, here's what I call "harem" fics or, member/everyone fics. We all still love to put the maknae in the center.
— overall
In 2021, in total, 42.915 fics were written in the BTS fandom. For the first time, we have written less fics than last year, when the count was 47.573. Here’s the overall progress of the total amount of fics.
— ships
i know you're all eagerly waiting for me to tell you taekook and jikook top the charts again this year, so fear not: they do still hold the first and second spot with, dare i say, a sizeable advantage.
Reducing all ship data per member (the number of fics where this member is part of the pairing) gives us the next chart. No surprises here; this chart looks about the same any other year.
— tags and ratings
for tags, ao3 gives us this top ten. noteably, there is about a whole percent more of hurt/comfort than last year, and "happy ending" is a new tag in this list soooo... are we doing okay, guys?
Of the 42.915 fics, 30.064 were finished, which is just shy of 70% - a record percentage since I’ve started compiling these stats (2017). Great job, writers!
— the Overview
I compiled the absolute and relative amount of fics per ships over every year (2014 to now). For these, I highly recommend going to the website (linked above or in bio) because screenshotted, they are quite unreadable...
that's all i got! thank you so much for reading, and please continue to write and read whatever it is you love writing and reading. support your authors!
goodbye ~
The usual disclaimers apply: this is focused on member x member ships. If that’s not your thing, lovely, great, I respect that, and so with all that due respect: this isn't for you. I suggest doing anything else with your time.
what i do have a chart for is how many time one member was a part of the ship in a fic, and if youve been here for like five minutes you can also predict exactly what this chart is every year:
relative growth is a chart I personally have mixed feelings about every year, so i decided not to include it here. it's always quite skewed, and the differences were extremely small this year, and i never like it. so instead, have this table.
new this year is that rapline isn't part of the ot3 top three! their spot is bumped by jin/namjoon/jungkook, by exactly three fics. we also wrote 1.005 OT7 fics!
— big charts!
I have two charts left, which is the absolute and relative amount of fics per ships over every year (2014 to now). I can screenshot them, but they're rather.. unreadable:
(For the record, you read this chart as “we wrote x% more/less of this ship this year”. Note that this percentage will always look higher on small numbers.)
Reducing this data per member (where this member is part of the pairing) gives us the next chart, which also isn’t much different than any other year. Jungkook is the most popular member in fic, and Hoseok is the least.
With that out of the way: all fics are dated as the last time they were updated, not the time they were posted, so this may skew the stats a little bit; also, all relationship tags are counted, as I have no way to account for mistagging.
i think they are fun to check out, really. like, you can see when the sope ficdom peaked, or idk, when jinkook passed yoonjin in terms of relative popularity.
You can find all charts from this and last year on this fancy little website if you want to (and if you're on a machine bigger than a cell phone). The graphs there are interactive :)
and without further ado, let's go!
— the Overview
what's left? well, everything together. as ive been doing this for a while, i can graph all the data for ships over time in one big chart, but truth be told, they're not the most readable. i do recommend going to the website if you wanna play around with these.
Also, extra as I am, I made a website this year. You can view the whole analysis here OR there, with the added bonus that the graphs on the website are interactive (and one bonus pie chart).
The website is live at .
these are actually the main reason i made a website! they're interactive over there, so you can click ship datasets on or off as you wish. say for example you only want the top 5 ships, or you wanna see namjoon ships only: you can play around with them as you wish!
anyway, on to the usual disclaimers: fics are counted if they were updated in the year 2023, all ships are counted, and if you don't care for rpf, please skip this thead and go do whatever else it is you do. i'm literally old and i do not care. god bless!
ADDENDUM 1:
the ranking with otp:true filter. in total these count for around 26k fics (a bit over half of all fics) and i think it makes the most sense stacked with the total amount (chart 2), as with the comparison i guess it's a bit of an indicator of the amount of mistagging
hello hello and welcome to this year's overview of ao3 BTS fic stats data. sorry i'm late as well, i have good excuses, but let's be real. you don't care about those.
First things first: I didn’t use my scraping scripts this year, because, frankly, it’s tedious and I fell sick for a bit and also I didn’t want to. You won’t miss out on too much data though, so no worries.
once again, all the stats are available on this website: . you can change years in the tabs at the top. i didn't put a lot of effort in changing the copy this year (sorry) but hey, that's what this thread is for.
due to the state of the fandom my personal dwindling interest in bts, this will probably also be the last time, but who knows. maybe next year nostalgia strikes and i whip up a chart or two :)
Up front, a few disclaimers:
1. this is primarily focused on member x member ships. If that’s not your thing, that’s fine and great, and this thread probably isn’t for you, I suggest just clicking away now.
I highly recommend viewing on at least a tablet, as large graphs are a bit hard to do on phone screens. It's responsive, it kind of works, but it's not great.
Anyway, let's get into it!
3. I count all relationship tags.There’s no way for me to account for mistagging here: I know the “otp:true” filter exists, but this filter will only return fics with *just* that pairing, so it would throw out a lot of fics that are actually relevant as well.
(i.e the smaller the blue bar is compared to the red one, the more disconnect there is between "tagged as this ship" and "the fic is mainly about this ship")
A point I don't see in the qrts: locked fics. Locked fics aren't scraped for data vis like this and the concern about AI data scraping definitely coincides with the drops. (Forgive me if this is covered in ops methods)
by the way, feel free to follow this account - might interact with a few people about this years stats, but then im logging off til next year, so i wont bother ya
new this year is that rapline isn't part of the ot3 top three! their spot is bumped by jin/namjoon/jungkook, by exactly three fics. we also wrote 1.005 OT7 fics!
And to complete the not very surprising triad of charts, here's what I call "harem" fics or, member/everyone fics. We all still love to put the maknae in the center.
@theeverknowing
it's possible but i think, if you look at this linearly, it's kind of in line with the last years, maybe just a tad lower. but maybe it's also just that 2020 was unexpectedly high bc there were lockdowns and people were home with a lot of time to write
@fiddleyoumust
oh, well, i can probably do that. it's also not the most accurate, as i explained above, but i guess u can look at it in comparison. give me a minute!
@sussyseok
thank u, tbh been copy pasting these names in my excel sheets since 2017 and im not deep into the bts fandom on twt honestly. which ones should i edit