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and even fewer fans will publish what they have written. The enormous
success of the Harry Potter series ensures a huge HP fandom with pairingspecific,
genre-specific, and character-specific subsets of fandom. This is the
case, even if we conservatively estimate that only 20% of all fans (who in
return are only a specific percentage of all audiences) will write. The number
of people involved in the Harry Potter English-speaking trans-national online
fandom (let alone in cyberspaces utilizing languages other than English)
would still be large enough to account for the plethora of fanfiction available
on the net. MAX’s fandom is by far smaller, given its decrease in popularity in
Japan, and the Japanese-only songs which somewhat limit an Englishspeaking
target audience. Thus, when the active fans are singled out, they are
of a much smaller number.
It is interesting, in any case, that Eiko is a lurker in some fandoms but
active in others. As one of the reasons why she only lurks in her slash
fandoms (both HP and popslash) at the moment, she explained that it was a
question of what she feels she can contribute to the fandoms: for the MAX and
other Japanese pop fandoms, she could actively bring something to the
community as she had been several times in Japan and had access to
information about the groups before that information became accessible on the
English speaking net; she also held the role of a translator. The Harry Potter
fandom is so established and big that she feels as if there is nothing new or
insightful that she could bring to different fan groups that has not been said
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