#it’s hard to get data off of ffn and wattpad so I couldn’t do like graph thru time

[diatomaceous-worth]

2009 ended with 21 USUK fan fictions posted to AO3. As of July 21st 2021, there are 6,282 USUK fics, with 406 being posted (or updated) in 2021 so far. (While the title says fics posted, it also counts multichapter fics that were posted or updated that year, meaning if a single fic was updated each year over three years, it would be counted each year instead of just once in the year it was posted.)

[*update for July 2023* I originally posted this in July of 2021. I've since then realized that the wattpad search functions are pretty bad and therefore the number of usuk fics was most likely highly inflated. Meaning while there is probably a good amount of usuk fic on wattpad, the search results showed a lot of fic that wasn't actually usuk. Because tagging and searching sucks on that site, idk the real number and idk how to figure it out. Anyways, everything besides this paragraph and the updated graph images I'm leaving unedited for history purposes. Conclusion: wattpad is no longer based.]

AO3 and fanfiction.net have similar percentages of USUK fics out of all Hetalia fics, with 14.8% and 16.8% USUK respectively. On Wattpad, surprisingly half of all fan fictions posted are USUK. (Note: I counted ‘ukus’ as usuk one in the same. So usuk is really usukus, but I just went with the default ship name most commonly used.) Left out sites were LiveJournal and Dreamwidth bc the forum/blog like posting format is hard to get numbers on, but should be considered as fanfic posting sites.)

Here’s the same data, as a side by side comparison.

Note: As you can see while the percentages of USUK are similar for AO3 and fantiction.net, fanfiction.net dominates all other sites in the number of Hetalia fics in general, with ~118,000 total Hetalia fics as of July 2021. Archive of Our Own has 42,341 Hetalia fics total and Wattpad has ~43,100.

And that’s all for this mini analysis. I didn’t check with any other ships to compare which ships are the most popular, but the most surprising thing I learned was that Wattpad has the most USUK fics out of any site.

Final note: If you are a Hetalia fanfic writer (esp usuk) you rock! Thanks for being the heart and soul of the fandom, seriously.

#usuk #ukus #hetalia #hetalia fanfiction #hetalia fandom #hws #hws america #hws england #also my thoughts after browsing some of the wattpad usuk fics are...quantity is not the same as quality #I mean it’s wattpad so we already knew that...not saying it’s all bad but AO3 def is where the quality is at #it’s hard to get data off of ffn and wattpad so I couldn’t do like graph thru time #also fic writers are the heart and soul and fan artists are the heart and soul in the mirror universe