Study Highlights Repeated AI Fanfiction Requests Around Doki Doki Literature Club

A research project analyzing public ChatGPT conversations found one anonymous user repeatedly generated a similar Doki Doki Literature Club fanfiction scenario thousands of times. The finding appeared within a broader study of how people use AI tools for fiction, fan works, and recurring story prompts.

According to the reported study, researchers from the University of Washington and Colorado Boulder reviewed the WildChat dataset, which includes roughly 500,000 English-language ChatGPT conversations from 2023 and 2024. The article says about one-third of those conversations were fiction-related, with fanfiction making up around half of that subset.

The repeated Doki Doki Literature Club thread became notable because it fit a pattern the researchers described as “infinite story demanders”: users who return to the same premise or type of scene again and again. The source also reports that a small share of users drove most fiction conversations in the dataset.

For esports and gaming communities, the story is less about one strange prompt pattern and more about how AI is changing fan culture. If a handful of users can generate huge volumes of franchise-based stories, editors and communities may need clearer norms for discussing AI-made fandom content, especially when it involves sensitive themes or characters.