[ SECRET POST #6722 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6722 ⌋

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


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[Cinderella's Castle (musical)]



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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 35 secrets from Secret Submission Post #961..
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

[fscom]

07. https://i.imgur.com/KItxhpR.png

[(Anonymous)]

Bet it showed up on tvtropes or something. Someone either linked to your fic as using a trope, or you got a full on fanfic rec for it. Either way, go to tvtropes and search your fic name.

[iff_and_xor]

Above anon’s suggestion to check TV tropes is a good one. Maybe look on tumblr or reddit too, if you’re really curious?

Since they’re all guest kudos, it’s very possible a few readers are leaving multiple kudos, maybe as they come back and reread.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm kind of assuming bandom, so something IRL could have happened to spark interest - one of the group members being in the news or some odd channel/con celebrating an anniversary or something can sometimes cause a surge in people looking for fic.

[(Anonymous)]

I’ve long thought that if someone gives you kudos, your fic is more likely to appear higher on random mode. I’ll have a fic suddenly get a rush of attention for a week and then fall back into obscurity. I haven’t posted a fic on AO3 since 2011 but almost every one I’ve written has had that happen. I will also get kudos for every fic (or most) in one fandom and sometimes even on one or more other tiny fandoms in a week. Usually those are from named user but not always. I have a fic that is the only one by anyone for its fandom and probably half the kudos on that came from readers who also left kudos on works for bigger fandoms.

[(Anonymous)]

What is "random mode"?

[(Anonymous)]

I had this happen a few years ago with a fic I wrote for a small fairly inactive fandom, suddenly got a bunch of kudos over the course of a few months and I could only assume it got recced on tumblr or twitter somewhere and thus an explosion of eyes that it otherwise hadn't reached when I first posted it got to it.

[(Anonymous)]

To be honest, whenever this happens, I just assume it's a kudos bot, especially if you consistently get one guest kudos each day (this is the max that one guest from the same IP can kudos a comment per day). I don't like spam anon kudos (it messes up my ability to track the attention fic gets) so at that point I lock the fic so that kudos bots can't kudos it.

[(Anonymous)]

The same thing happens to my pics on dA, even though I haven't posted anything new there in years. For a while it's all quiet and then suddenly I get dozens of favorites in one week. My best guess is that someone has linked one of the pics somewhere on their account.

[(Anonymous)]

One of my older fics started getting kudos again when a game remake dropped. Could it be something like that?

[tabaqui]

I go and read/kudo/comment on older fic often when it gets rec'd in a rec community i follow. So it could be as simple as that. Fun to have old fic be read and liked!

[(Anonymous)]

I had one 15 year old fic get a tons of kudos after being linked on Reddit - someone was complaining about a trope in someone's recent fic and someone else said "this is how you do it right" and linked mine. (It's a fandom with old original material but constant updates.)