Readers Are Freaking Out Thinking Wattpad's Updated Explicit Content Policy Is A Smut Ban

Did Wattpad ban smut? Its explicit content policy, explained.

Wattpad says it did not ban smut. Here’s what its content rules allow and why readers are talking about moving to AO3.

The internet thought Wattpad was coming for its Harry Styles smut. Here’s what actually happened

For some, One Direction is merely a British boy band that sang “What Makes You Beautiful” and introduced the world to Harry Styles. But for fanfic lovers in the mid-2010s, the band and its members were also their lovers, adoptive parents, and sometimes even their kidnappers. These fantasies often unfolded on Wattpad, an online platform where writers can publish their work directly for readers looking for niche original stories that for decades h…

Readers Are Freaking Out Thinking Wattpad's Updated Explicit Content Policy Is A Smut Ban

It's not, but it the way it does prohibit some forms of explicit content is just as bad