I think once people caught on to the fun, tons of kinkmeme's popped up with varying levels of participation, quality, and moderation. And the main reason this one got shut down with the angry message up top that there is now. I point that out only because it's interesting that such a fandom zeitgeist like this just popped up totally organically in someone's lj who was nerding out with their friends.this is also the reason it, and many of the other proto-kinkmemes were hosted in individual's ljs before they became more of an anon-comm thing. It is safe to say that for this meme, at least the first several pages of it, are all Lys and her lj friends because while it was a public post, this wasn't cross-posted to fic comms or Bleach comms to drum up participation. In 2013, someone on fail_fandomanon commented,
There appears to have been some wank surrounding the moderation of the first kink meme not only did ketsumetsu update their post with references to entitled commenters, but also a later Bleach meme opened their first round with "The Bleach Anonymous Kink Meme finally has a permanent home! Now without wankerific mods who take the internet srsly!", though this could be a reference to another Bleach kink mod in the interim who failed to live up to expectations. Its first six years were hosted on a personal LJ account, only moving in 2013 to a dedicated comm on Dreamwidth. It had its first post on Octo and has been running continually ever since, billing itself as the longest running kink meme on the internet.
A good example is The Phoenix Wright Kink Meme, based on the series of Japanese games. Many of the memes in that masterlist were hosted in one post of an LJ community or LJ user's personal account, rather than having a dedicated LJ comm, as many later kink memes did. By October 2007, evergrnterrace started compiling a huge masterlist of kink memes, mostly anime fandom.
Within a few weeks the idea had already spread to several other anime and video game fandoms, plus a Spanish-language Harry Potter community. The earliest kink meme was started by ketsumetsu in Bleach fandom on May 7 or 8 the post was rewritten and dated July 1, but the first comment, a request, was dated May 8. Kink memes began in 2007 in anime fandom and spread like wildfire. Popularity of new fandoms can often be gauged by how fast a kink meme shows up for the fandom. Some kink memes have their own official delicious lists that allow readers to search by pairing, kink or character, and to find unfilled prompts. Other fans prefer the culture of anonymity that a kink meme fosters and use sites like delicious to organize their favorite fills for future reference. Some fans have raised concerns about the large amount of fic that is only ever posted in comments on Livejournal communities and never archived elsewhere.
Some fans do claim their work, either immediately or after the run of a particular meme, but much work remains forever anonymous. Fans may use the tracking features of Livejournal to monitor when new parts to their favorite stories are posted.
Many fills start out as WIPs, and many of those are abandoned and remain unfinished. Pairing: Pendragon/Merlin was begun on the kinkme_merlin meme in 24 parts and was moved to a consolidated set of posts on a related journal by the mod when it was finished. Even though the structure favors commentfic-length fic, some very long stories have been written, which requires posting in multiple parts. The anonymous nature of the meme permits both prompters and fillers to have fewer inhibitions in making and filling requests, and may be a way for new fans to feel more comfortable about participating. Most kink memes will have content that meets either or both fannish definitions of kink, and not all fills are sexually explicit. Some run continuously, others have set times where posting is allowed.įans post prompts, which can range from the very vague to so exact they are nearly story outlines, and other fans fill the request by responding with custom-made fan works, usually fanfic, but sometimes with fan art. Most are fandom- or even pairing-specific, and they are nearly always anonymous. Kink memes are commentfic fests found usually on Livejournal, Dreamwidth, or other journaling services with similar threaded comment capability.