[ SECRET POST #5972 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5972 ⌋

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


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[Figment 2: Creed Valley]



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[Coffeezilla]



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[xxxHolic/Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle/CLAMP]



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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 44 secrets from Secret Submission Post #854.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

...I have literally never seen someone complain that they 'only' got hundreds of views etc. Does this really happen?

[(Anonymous)]

I've definitely seen it. All those self-righteous posts on Tumblr about how "it's okay if you feel like no-one ever reads your stuff! why, my last fic only got 450 kudos, so I know exactly how you feel!"

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT Wow. Just...wow. ;/

[meadowphoenix]

idk i was a recently reading a fic and the author said that she guessed people didn't like the last chapter because it got significantly less comments than usual. the number of comments on that chapter...97, but she usually gets 170 or more so I guess it was upsetting.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean... I kinda see her point? Not that 97 comments are bad, and obviously a lot of authors would be over the moon to get that much feedback. But if you look at it from a percentage standpoint, the feedback dropped by a significant amount. If half my friend group who regularly socializes with me just ghosted me all of a sudden, it'd still take me aback even if I had 200 friends because... well, yikes, what did I do?

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe they didn't like the story?

I don't expect everybody who follows my stuff to love everything equally. Some things are hits and some are kind of meh when it comes to how they are received.

I do get a relatively generous amount of feedback, but I have some stories that have much less, and that's okay. My mindset is that if I entertained one other person besides me :) it was a success, though.

[(Anonymous)]

"the author said that she guessed people didn't like the last chapter " - So basically, the author realized exactly what you suggested?

[(Anonymous)]

There have been a fair number of secrets or comments here recently where people have been assuming that every hit on their fic is someone who

a) read it
b) read it through to the end
c) liked it
and then
d) just couldn't be bothered to hit kudos or leave a comment

and then proceeded to post a secret/comment about how writers/artists are feeling taken advantage of because they don't get more kudos/comments.

[(Anonymous)]

yyyyyep. a whole lotta assumptions

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah I am sure I leave a lot of hits on things I didn't read one word of because I click in, realise it's:

1. a wall of text
2. a wall of text with no capitalization or punctuation
3. in second person which I hate with a fucking passion

and immediately backbutton out.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, they're out there. I try not to take that sort talk as a personal insult, but it's a bitter pill to swallow as a small time writer.
When I was going through a lot of insecurity it was not fun at all to see a popular writer fret over "only" getting 500+ notes on their fic on tumblr, when the fic had been posted in under 24 hours. They were talking about how the shitty tumblr machine disables writers from getting their works seen.

As a writer who was excited to get 50~ notes after a month of having my fic up, yeah, yeah, it really sucks when your works don't seem to garner interest or are not seen for whatever reasons.

[(Anonymous)]

Tumblr creators are seriously a whole different level of entitlement in my experience. Like, no, your gifset that got ~200 notes in a fandom where the normal amount of engagement is ~200 notes didn't "flop" ffs. And that's to say nothing of the "you're a bad person if you like a post without reblogging it" crowd.

[(Anonymous)]

SURE. When I was first in fandom, I saw someone declare that she had lost all motivation to write because her latest fic had only gotten 15,000 hits (!!!). Somewhere in my mind, that became my reference point, and ever since I've thought, well, I guess if I were even as successful as that writer's most unsuccessful moment, I'd be getting 15,000 hits ...