What is “Twilight fanfic” & why are we supposed to be so well-verse in it as those whining about another typical Hollywood-culture film?
Fanfic = fiction written in an established “world” by fans of said world. Usually found on the internet these days, usually terrible.
Twilight fanfic = fanfic in the Twilight world.
50 Shades started as fanfic put on Twilight fan sites. It got really popular, extremely popular. Popular enough that publishers approached the author about actually publishing it. So she “scraped off the serial numbers” (changed character names, removed references to the larger copy-written Twilight world) and walla, an incredibly poorly written financial juggernaut was born.
And you should know about it only if you want to actually know what you’re talking about when slamming 50 Shades. If you’re comfortable only knowing it’s awful then that OK too.
Some idiot was a fan of the emo whiner series “Twilight”, so they wrote a horrible fan fiction for it titled “Master of the Universe”.
It was initially “published” online.
Why should we care?
Because, it means that any sap with a poorly written fan fiction can con enough idiots into thinking it is ‘great work’ to the point that an idiotic movie is made about it.