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For me it was pic related, Goosebumps, Animporphs and 90s Hard\y Boys. The girls were reading Baby Sitters Club and also overlapped with Goosebump. A few kids had collections of these series. Physical collections was still a big even into the 2000s with beyblades and stuff.
There really isn't anything like it for todays kids.
The Star Wars kids books got me into Stackpole and Timothy Zahn and from there I got into normal non-multimeida-ip SFF fare.
I feel like there's no way to replicate any of this for web novels and tradpub has gone full retard.
I think that anon talking about vidya game wikis and Dark Souls lore youtube is probably right but how do you translate that into a serial format?