Move in slow motion for me

move in slow motion for me, by an anonymous AO3 user, is a Sidney Crosby/P. K. Subban slash fanfic written to fill a prompt at the dreamwidth hockey RPF kinkmeme The Sin Bin. It has been criticized for being a racist trollfic and used as an example of the OTW's failure to handle racist comments, racist tagging, and/or racist fanfic on AO3. 
The author's use of racial slurs in replies to comments may have left a greater impression in the long term than the fic itself.
==The Fic==
On August 26, 2014, the following prompt was posted at The Sin Bin:
Less than an hour later, someone responded to the prompt with "super quick and dirty fill!" and a link to an AO3 fic. The AO3 fic is rated Explicit and tagged with "interracial kink" and "No Archive Warnings Apply". (This fic appears to be the first use of the interracial kink tag, which as of 2023 has 24 uses and has never been filterable.) The fic was posted to an anonymous collection, so the author is unknown. The fic summary reads as follows:
==2014 Fan Reactions==
Fans reacted to and discussed the fic on several platforms: in the comments on the AO3 fic itself, on dreamwidth and livejournal anonmemes (hockeyrpfanon, dekedangle_rpfanon, fail_fandomanon), and on fans' personal accounts on tumblr, twitter, and dreamwidth. Topics mentioned during these discussions included: Your Kink Is Not My Kink, whether "interracial kink" was racist, whether it's ok to like a racist kink, whether the fic itself is racist or just the author's comments, whether the author was a troll, comparisons with other "problematic" kinks, comparing racial fetishization to fetishizing hockey players by writing fic about them, the "interracial kink" tag itself.
Discussion also took place on the dreamwidth community for the kinkmeme, but was limited due to the kinkmeme's rules against policing kinks, thesinbin, 2014-08-27.:
===The Sin Bin Comments===
Comments on thesinbin dreamwidth community are required to be anonymous.
===AO3 Comments===
Several fans left comments on the fic criticizing it for being racist:
Other fans spoke in defense of the fic:
The fic has over 100 comments, including arguments between commenters and a fair amount of what looks like anonymous trolling. 
===Author's Response===
The author made several statements about their motivation in writing the fic. They also went on to write two more fics tagged "interracial kink". From the author's notes:
The author also replied to some AO3 comments. These comments have since been deleted, but according to other fans included racial slurs, causing many other fans to decide that the author was not simply ignorant but had intended to troll the fandom all along. This comment by the author was quoted and discussed on anonmemes:
===Troll?===
Both The Sin Bin and hockey rpf fandom at large had a troll infestation in 2014. Some anon memes discussed whether or not the author was another troll (or one of the known trolls). 
Fail_fandomanon:
dekedangle_rpfanon:
hockeyrpfanon: 
Fail_fandomanon again, in 2016:
===Kinks, Tagging, and Racism===
marina also explained in the comment section of her post that the term "interracial kink" itself "has mostly been used in racist contexts"., 2014-09-03. stewardess compared the current situation to a 2007 incident where a Harry Potter community ran a challenge with the prompt "miscegenation"., 2014-09-01.
==Abuse Reports and AO3's Response==
Fans reported the AO3 fic and/or the tag and/or the author's comments to the AO3 Abuse team, but were told that what they reported did not violate AO3's terms of service. It is not clear how many people reported something or what each of them reported. Famously, AO3's terms of service states that the archive's goal is maximum inclusiveness of content and that "[u]nless it violates some other policy, we will not remove Content for offensiveness, no matter how awful, repugnant, or badly spelled we may personally find that Content to be." (Accessed 1 July 2023.) However, the terms of service also prohibits harassment.
stopthatimp shared the Abuse team's reply email to their report on August 31. The email explained why no action would be taken:
bossymarmalade wrote a dreamwidth post saying they wouldn't donate to the OTW anymore due to the AO3's response to the abuse reports, implying but not stating outright that they believed that taking down the fic would have been the right thing to do. "the least AO3 could do is get rid of that fucking awful tag, since it's not technically 'content'! I'm really aggravated with how they've been handling this." by bossymarmalade, 2014-09-02.
In 2023, fans on fail_fandomanon discussed whether the Policy & Abuse Committee (PAC) would still respond to the 2014 reports in the same way:
A comment by an anonymous former PAC volunteer a month later broadly confirms this view:
==Later Discussions==
AO3's handling of abuse reports on "move in slow motion for me" has been mentioned in several later discussions about fandom racism, institutional racism at the OTW, and AO3 content policy. Some fans disagreed with AO3's goal of maximum inclusiveness of content and wanted some racist content to be restricted. Others were concerned with AO3's inability to address harassment. Some argued that racist content was itself harassment. Others felt that it was important to uphold AO3's content policy with respect to the fic itself, but that the author's comments should have been handled differently.
During the 2016 AO3 content policy discussions, themardia wrote,
Comments at fail_fandomanon:
During the 2020 AO3 racism discussions, pearwaldorf argued:
fail_fandomanon responded to pearwaldorf's post: 
In September 2021 stitch wrote a blog post critiquing the OTW's lack of progress since its 2020 promise to do anti-racism work. stitch referenced "That time in 2014 when a Hockey fandom writer used slurs at people in the fandom who called them out for their purposefully racist fic and how… that deliberately racist fic was not something that got any consequences from the Abuse Team.", stitchmediamix, 8 September 2021.
In May 2023, the End OTW Racism campaign mentioned the fic in their call to action as an example of how AO3 lets users "harass others through fanworks, comments, and tags." They linked to themardia's post and highlighted the fact that the writer used "racial slurs against commenters who pointed out racism in their hockey fic"., tumblr post by end-otw-racism, May 10, 2023.
==Meta/Further Reading==
*original prompt (and discussion thread) (August 26, 2014)
*hockeyrpfanon discussion (August 26, 2014)
*dekedangle-rpfanon discussion (August 27, 2014)
*another hockeyrpfanon discussion (August 29, 2014)
*fan discussion at fail_fandomanon (August 31, 2014)
*untitled post by stopthatimp (August 31, 2014)
*ao3's response to my abuse complaint re: the 'interracial kink' fic/comments by stopthatimp (August 31, 2014)
*AO3 & Censorship by stopthatimp (October 22, 2016)
*AO3 and Abuse: A Story About the AO3 Abuse Team by themardia (October 30, 2016)
==References==
Category:Hockey RPF
Category:Slash Fanfiction
Category:2014 Fanfiction
Category:Scandals