K-pop has a long way to go before it competes with Hollywood, but it's the fourth most popular fandom to write fanfiction about.

Vulture, an Internet offshoot of New York Magazine, published a series of articles about fanfiction, which highlighted K-pop's popularity among fanfiction writers. K-pop in general and SM Entertainment's EXO in particular were highlighted among fanfiction.

Vulture focused primarily on Wattpad, a popular website for people to read and publish stories on, as the source for her material. Asian Fanfics, the most popular site for fans of K-pop, was not mentioned in the Vulture report.

K-pop in general was ranked in fourth place among "Most Popular Fanfiction Fandoms" tagged on Wattpad stories. Musicians from around the globe dominated the top five spots, which went to One Direction, 5 Seconds of Summer, YouTubers and Viners (combined,) K-pop and a category that Vulture called "real person."

David Marchese, one of the writers of the report, wrote about why fanfiction did so well among fans of a particular thing, explaining how what':

Topics with prominent fanfiction, like Harry Potter, Divergent, Teen Wolf, Supernatural, and Sherlock, ranked in the top fifteen of Wattpad uploads.

"Fanfiction's great allure is its lack of boundaries. If you can think it, you can share it. But this stuff doesn't bubble up out of nowhere, and what's popular on the screens of fanfiction readers is a pretty accurate mirror of what's popular in real life, too. Here, with data supplied by online fic clearinghouse Wattpad, is what fans are reading and writing about."

SM Entertainment's idol group EXO in particular was highlighted among K-pop-based fanfiction on Wattpad. The boy band was highlighted for having  some of the most growing fandoms on Wattpad, with over 369% more stories uploaded in 2014 than were uploaded to the website in 2014.

Justin Bieber, and Supernatural were also mentioned, but EXO came only underneath One Direction in terms of growth.

The lengthy article went in to depth about the history and modern perception of fanfiction, ranging from 50 Shades of Grey and Star Trek and discussing some of the most popular relationships in fanfiction.