Fan fiction

Okay, let me be honest here.  I'm a fan girl.  As an example, I love Star Trek.  I loved it so much as a kid that I learned Klingon with several tiny flashcards while my Mom was learning a much more useful Spanish.

So....

While I was growing up, fan fiction was all books.  You had to come up with a story and meet the qualifications of a publisher before actually getting to sell your fiction to the mainstream.  I read every Star Trek fan fiction novel in the Noble public library before I was 10, and we had to start ordering in books from out of town.

Here's a good example of fan-dom:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0MAT1IuHWg

Anyway, I wonder, with the advent of YouTube, if we're transitioning into a phase where my kids won't go to a library to find fan fiction for their favorite sci fi universe, but will instead turn to homemade videos on youtube or whatever the equivalent is in a decade or two.  There are already Hunger Games fan fics populating You Tube, predominantly produced by relatively young kids, in their early to mid teens!  Kids now have the ability to make their own fan fics and share with other teens (although they still need a parent watching them, mind you).  It's amazing.

It's actually very exciting and odd to have to think about things this way, but you know what?  I kind of like it.