"Why Teen Wolf?" is a plaintive question many people have asked. I don't think it was particularly hard to find? I think the fanon just diverged from the canon very, very fast to the point that most of the people reading the fic weren't the kind of people who were interested in the canon? It's certainly not the only fandom that's ever done that but it's one of the largest recent ones.
The 'work' being the existing body of fic would cover that though, and I think there is some kind of useful definition somewhere in "Fanfiction includes all work created in the conversation with previous works of fanfiction". But it doesn't allow for the fic written in notebooks by 12-year-olds in the 90s.
(This is also a definition that requires you to come up with some kind of defined "work" an RPF author is working from, which is also difficult to do.)
A definition that relies on what audience the author was thinking of requires that the author be thinking of the audience at all, and there are a lot of people who would say part of the experience of writing fanfic for them is being able to write for an audience of just themself.
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The 'work' being the existing body of fic would cover that though, and I think there is some kind of useful definition somewhere in "Fanfiction includes all work created in the conversation with previous works of fanfiction". But it doesn't allow for the fic written in notebooks by 12-year-olds in the 90s.
(This is also a definition that requires you to come up with some kind of defined "work" an RPF author is working from, which is also difficult to do.)
A definition that relies on what audience the author was thinking of requires that the author be thinking of the audience at all, and there are a lot of people who would say part of the experience of writing fanfic for them is being able to write for an audience of just themself.