RaraeAves argued that “the creeps” are depending on fanfic writers to not fight back when their labor and creativity are being exploited. It was a collective essay she’d co-authored with 11 other writers to raise awareness about the threat of AI to fandom and uploaded to AO3. And to give things to each other and make work in community,” Nikki says. As for fanfic writers themselves, she thinks Nikki’s strategy of whack-a-mole is the way to go. Nikki and Em, the fanfic writers, had a more heated response to nyuuzou’s explanation for the scrape.