2019 AO3 and the “Kudos Only” culture will destroy lots of authors.
Do readers have any idea how much time does it take to plan a story? To write? To proofread? Not to mention extra work some authors do, such as add fanarts and create playlists to their stories?
If you spend your time to read up to 3K words per chapter, why are you not praising the creator of said content with a least a review?
Stop thinking that pressing the kudos buttom is better than nothing, because it isn’t. It tells nothing to the writer/content creator. We don’t know if you like our writing style, we don’t know if you’re enjoying the story flow, our plot decisions, the way we depict the characters… It feels like we’re throwing content into a black hole.
And then, when we get disappointed and stop writing, there are lots of people messaging us on Tumblr or writing “reviews” saying only “Are you still writing this? Where is the next chapter?”. Ficwriters and content creators are people with expectations, insecurities and with a lot of things to learn. If you don’t retribute the time we spent writing by leaving a review or/and if you don’t tell us what’s okay and what we should improve it feels like (for me, at least) that our writing serves no purpose. We’re human. As you need your source of entertainment, we also need your validation or your critics.
So yeah, call me a demanding bitch if you feel like doing so, but don’t blame ficwriters and content creators in general when they lose motivation to keep writing ongoing stories or because your ship is not sailing anymore because of lack of content…
Praise your content creator if you enjoy the work your’re consuming.
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