[ SECRET POST #5567 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5567 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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(image is from The Story of Yanxi Palace)


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[image is from One Piece]


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[Mo Dao Zu Shi/The Untamed]


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05.
[Centaurworld]


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06.
[Hogwarts Legacy]


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07.
[How I Met Your Mother]
















Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

(cozy werewolf anon)

There's another side to this too, both in trad and indie publishing spaces. In trad publishing, publishers are at least giving the appearance they want big social media followings before signing you and are having authors do MOST of their own marketing work. And then on top of it, instead of waiting for "once published" sales to see what the next book print run and the author's advance will be, they're using PRE-Sales. It's nuts. We had this happen with comics and see how that turned out. And whether or not these "Big social media influencers" work is any good is debatable.

Then in Indie spaces, people are demanding the amount of Fandom space work (think 1 or 2 updates to an original story a week if you post on Royal Road) at the same quality of traditional published work. Or if you're posting on Amazon, you're probably going to be posting 4 books a year and even at 40K works each, that's 160K words a year which can be ONE long book in trad spaces that takes a year to two years to come out. So, this combo of fan demand and algorithms just leads to burn out. And if you don't cater to it, you're dead in the water.

The book industry at least is a mess. (And so is games, and so is hollywood.)