What Does This Mean?
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A fan-run event that matches participants to make fanworks for each other, often covering one fandom or a group of related ones with nominated tags, request and offer forms and a reveal date.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
""The fandom exchange matched her with a rare-pair fic for the first time.""
LORE & ORIGIN
Examples include the Danmei Fanworks Exchange, an anonymous AO3 exchange with nominations, sign-ups and matched assignments, and Yuletide, which the Daily Dot dates to 2003. Recent term; no dated source found yet for this exact label.
FIRST SEEN
Unknown (exchanges since 2003 per the Daily Dot)
PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)
2010s-present
CURRENT STATUS
Mainstream Slang
Related To:fic exchangeYuletideAO3gift fic
AURA IMPACT ⓘ
+1 AURA
TREND STATUS
→ STEADY
EDITORIAL ESTIMATE
CULTURE CATEGORY
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RELATED TERMS
MENTIONS OVER TIME
DOCUMENTED SINCE
Unknown (exchanges since 2003 per the Daily Dot)
NOW
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