FIMFiction features thousands of user groups that cover topics from proofreading to character discussions that serve as a "writing school".[6] Academic studies have identified a system of "distributed mentoring" (in which writers receive feedback from various members across different channels) within the My Little Pony fan fiction community.[7][8]
Unlike many fan fiction communities that tend to mostly be female, FIMFiction has a predominantly male audience.[6]
^Yin, Kodlee; Aragon, Cecilia; Evans, Sarah; Davis, Katie (2017). "Where No One Has Gone Before: A Meta-Dataset of the World's Largest Fanfiction Repository". Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. pp. 6106–6110. doi:10.1145/3025453.3025720. ISBN978-1-4503-4655-9.
^ abCampbell, Julie Ann; Aragon, Cecilia; Davis, Katie; Evans, Sarah; Evans, Abigail; Randall, David P. (2016). "Thousands of Positive Reviews: Distributed Mentoring in Online Fan Communities". Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing. pp. 691–704. arXiv:1510.01425. doi:10.1145/2818048.2819934. ISBN978-1-4503-3592-8.
^Evans, Sarah; Davis, Katie; Evans, Abigail; Campbell, Julie Ann; Randall, David P.; Yin, Kodlee; Aragon, Cecilia (2017). "More Than Peer Production: Fanfiction Communities as Sites of Distributed Mentoring". Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. pp. 259–272. arXiv:1611.01549. doi:10.1145/2998181.2998342. ISBN978-1-4503-4335-0.
^Aragon, Cecilia Rodriguez; Davis, Katie (2019). Writers in the Secret Garden: Fanfiction, Youth, and New Forms of Mentoring. The MIT Press. pp. 107–108.
