Although a wide variety of metamorphoses were considered suitable content for inclusion, transgender and furry wish-fulfillment stories predominated.
The archive's community also created or fostered a large number of shared universe fiction settings, in part due to a prohibition against traditional fanfiction.
In 1997, eSCENE, an annual award anthology for works first published in ezines, invited nominations from the TSA, and considered 17 such stories, the most from any single source.
[3] Its content has been cited as inspiration or influence by others in the genres the archive included, from the USENET community that pioneered modern therianthropy[4] to creators of webcomics such as Zebra Girl.
[5] The success of the TSA accounted for a significant portion of the Internet traffic of its non-profit server in Vienna, run by hosting service public netbase/t0.