Hold up, I always thought James wrote the shitty fanfic, then rewrote so it wasn't a Twilight thing anymore. Curious as to the actual story.

Real question: what do you call art?

I've seen plenty of art here. Subjective quality/technical prowess certainly varies, but art nonetheless.

Fifty Shades started out as a shitty Twilight fanfic (and I use that term loosely here), rather unfortunately named, Master of the Universe, while EL James was going under 'Snowqueens Icedragon,' and she changed some things around before publishing to prevent from getting sued for copyright.

(I use the term 'fanfic' loosely because she pretty much just ripped off Twilight, but replaced vampire references with badly-misinterpreted BDSM references)

I put more effort and care into my Pokemon fanart than EL James put into her shitty Twilight fanfic.

No, but you're on the money with your assumption, EL James writing the shitty fanfic, and then changing it to remove Twilight references before publishing is pretty much the actual story.

mostly why i've increasingly turned to forums like this for that kind of stuff (if i've ever needed). I think that it's in part to a new AI suggestions thing that Google implemented. It also does the videos too i believe. Still a shame it's happening though.

I've also seen some channels I loosely follow start using/ producing AI content unfortunately. All this AI slop on YT has greatly turned me off the platform as of late.