over a week ago, I decided to do a little experiment and post two new oneshots on an entirely new blog that I created with the sole purpose to be anonymous and separate from this blog.
honestly, I thought my best chance would be to write smut, so I did, twice. I made nice graphics and headers etc, used all the right tags. between the two fics, I garnered an average of 203 likes and 8 reblogs. 8.
thirteen people followed me despite knowing that at least 200 had interacted with it.
I watched the numbers (likes only) go up and down a lot and i’m assuming that was down to people liking to “save” and then unliking once they’d read. because so many people still do not know how this platform works.
so all I really took from this was that the fandom is well and truly dying. I don’t get nearly the same interactions on this blog as I used to (reblogs, reviews, asks etc) but my god, it must be so disheartening for new writers to come onto the scene with their fics.
anyway. I guess I just wanted to rant a little. godspeed to those who still write, I admire your passion and dedication and fuck the people who join this site and use it like tiktok x