How Did Sherlock Holmes Pave the Way for 50 Shades of Grey? | Idea Channel | PBS

You've probably heard of the risque novel "50 Shades of Grey" since it's now the best selling paperback of all time. But you may not know that it's Twilight fan fiction! It seems shocking that a fan fiction novel has become so popular, but 50 Shades isn't the first book to break through the fan community boundaries into mainstream culture. Over 100 years ago, Sherlock Holmes' popularity created a profusion of well received fan fiction. It allowed authors from amateur to professional to explore the world originally created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and pave the way for other future fan fiction canons, including Star Wars, Harry Potter, and yes, 50 Shades of Grey.

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[namejawa]

"50 shades of gray is a well written work of art ner ner ner" its porn, its porn, its porn, dont even fucking pretend, its porn.

[w0joshcbrln0w]

Coming soon to a pornhub near you!!!

[Arieda Gardner]

I agree with most of the stuff yous aid about fanfiction, but 50 Shades of Grey is one of the fanfictions that give the whole community a bad rep.

[chocolateandbroadway]

Fifty Shades is badly written in my opinion and the relationship was not BDSM, it was abuse... Only trouble with fanfiction is you have to weed through the bad to find the good and some is really really bad

[Zanoscar]

Beards.

The bigger, the smarter the person with it is.

[damn.it.nappa]

It legitimately is porn. Pretty badly written porn that glorifies abusive relationshps, too

[arajuiojuo]

Ok after this I wanna die.

[MrDahacker305]

why do all science channel's producers always have a big beard for example thepbschannel or even vsauce and all the other guys. did you ever think of is it a relationship thing. or is it just for fun.

[Ulquiorra Kurosaki]

i never read 50 shades of gray is it really that close to porn?

[Billevine]

0:54 A little surprising?

Take a look at that picture and tell me you don't get it.

[jerrid carter]

if you look at a mlp there are a great amount of fanfiction one of the greatest is fallout equastria

[Liam McLain]

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