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The Web is overflowing with BSB and 'N Sync shrines, including extraordinary collections of "fan fiction." Girls write stories about their adventures with the Boys—how they survived a plane crash with the Boys, how the Boys saw them dancing in the crowd and asked them to join the tour as stage dancers, how they saved one of the Boys from a gun-toting drug dealer. The fiction is mostly terrible and often illiterate. BSB writers are warring over whether you can write sexually explicit stories about the Boys. Some fan fiction pages proudly certify that they publish only clean stories. The clean fiction slogan is "WWTT"—What Would They Think? ("They" are the Boys, of course.) This is a very peculiar echo of the What Would Jesus Do? phenomenon.

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