The stories are based on books, television series, films, and video games. Stories are about recent works and older works. By 2001, almost 100,000 stories were posted on the website. Steven Savage, a programmer who operated a column on FanFiction.Net, described it as "the adult version of when kids play at being TV characters" and that the content posted on the website serves as examples for "when people really care about something" A. S. Berman of "USA Today" said in 2001 that FanFiction.Net "reads like the 21st century successor to the poetry slams of the Beat Generation." In 2011, Ogi Ogas described the website as 'the world's most popular "erotic" site for women'.