Original sentence: This form of AU is popular among some new writers, who tend to move the characters of a series into a setting more familiar to the author (as in the "high school fic")
Edited sentence: This form of AU is popular among some new writers, who tend to move the characters of a series into a setting more familiar to the author (as in the much-maligned "high school fic").This terminology was largely created to avoid the negative stigma that labelling a story AU might bring