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 - "Society is craving communal experiences amid increasing isolation"
 - Tour as "cultural touchstone" where "audiences see themselves reflected in Swift's evolution"
 
+
+### Additional Evidence (confirm)
+*Source: [[2026-03-18-synthesis-collaborative-fiction-governance-spectrum]] | Added: 2026-03-18*
+
+SCP Foundation with 9,800+ objects and 6,300+ tales demonstrates that protocol-distributed authorship (standardized format + peer review + voting) produces coherent worldbuilding at massive scale without centralized editorial authority. The emergent canonical clusters form organically through community consensus rather than top-down coordination. This confirms that worldbuilding can scale through structural constraints rather than editorial control, though it does NOT produce linear narrative (which requires concentrated authority per the tradeoff claim).
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 ## Content
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 ## Curator Notes
 PRIMARY CONNECTION: community governance and narrative quality (Sessions 5-6 research thread)
 WHY ARCHIVED: This is the synthesis source for Session 6. It resolves the central gap from Session 5 ("no community-owned IP has demonstrated qualitatively different stories") by identifying the structural tradeoff that explains WHY. It also extends the four-tier governance model to a six-point spectrum with historical cases.
+
+
+## Key Facts
+- AO3 has 17M+ works, 94M daily hits, 700 volunteers
+- SCP Foundation has 9,800+ SCP objects, 6,300+ tales, 16 language branches, 18 years of operation
+- SCP uses CC-BY-SA 3.0 licensing
+- SCP deletion threshold is -10 votes
+- SCP requires greenlight by 2 experienced reviewers pre-publication
+- Critical Role is #1 Twitch channel and has spawned animated series, novels, comics
+- Dropout/Dimension 20 generates $80-90M revenue at 40-45% EBITDA
+- Pudgy Penguins (Tier 1) delegates to production partner with no community narrative input
+- Claynosaurz (Tier 2) uses informal co-creation with team retaining editorial authority
+- Azuki/Bobu (Tier 3) uses formal on-chain voting bounded to secondary character
+- Doodles/DreamNet (Tier 4) uses protocol-level distributed authorship, pre-launch