And the reason why unrevealed fandoms don't get canonised in advance? Would you want to go to an Archive (or a library) and find it has a listing for a specific thing you wanted to find, only to discover the listing is totally empty? No.
Fandoms also don't get canonised on works in draft. Until the work is live, there's no real guarantee it'll ever be live and need an index point for people to navigate to. Shroedinger's fandom.
It's much more probable that the fic will go live than otherwise, though. Someone's hypothetical disappointment seems kinda like a silly reason for the actual disappointment many YT participants feel over this non-canonising business...?
Re: Mini-Challenges
Fandoms also don't get canonised on works in draft. Until the work is live, there's no real guarantee it'll ever be live and need an index point for people to navigate to. Shroedinger's fandom.
It's much more probable that the fic will go live than otherwise, though. Someone's hypothetical disappointment seems kinda like a silly reason for the actual disappointment many YT participants feel over this non-canonising business...?
But it's AO3 and I rarely get AO3 logic.