so! the infamous Read by the Author tag - by Elany

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This was shared by Elany/Elany on 20 June 2024 and posted here with permission. I thought it was interesting!

So! The infamous Read by the Author tag, right.

I got curious about whether the state of that tag is really as bad as it seems, so I got some numbers from the past, well, technically past 20 years but past 2006-07 there's no works with that tag and even before then some were very likely backdated. Still, I'm including those also because 2015 marks an interesting shift.

tl;dr it's bad you guys lmao

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