But besides the advocacy stuff a major goal of OTW is to preserve fannish history and works permanently. That's why they do the zine collection stuff, and collect fanzines to bring them into university libraries, why fanlore collects oral history of fandom, why they offer the Open Doors thing to preserve fan archives when the archivists can't do it anymore, why they offer the option to orphan works at the archive so you can vanish your pseud/name without taking your works with you etc. The intention of the archive is to be a free, permanent storage space for everyone for their fanworks, financed by donations of present and hopefully future fans to OTW. Whether that'll be feasible only time will show, I guess, but that's the goal. To preserve fannish history beyond the lives of single fans.

If you don't want that for your stuff, that's your preference, but plenty of fans, myself included, want that permanence and security for theirs, and while the OTW is new yet and can't offer proof that they'll be able to provide it beyond infrastructure goroundwork of a non-profit that doesn't rely on any single fan, they provide the hope for it. Whereas right now the best I can do is to let my fanart be indexed by google and accessed by archive.org, and hope that maybe something will survive for longer by happenstance.