Thinking of how fandoms can fall out of fashion pretty much like clockwork and fail to capture the interests of new fans that didn't grow up with the original show/game/work. Is there anything with some real staying power you've noticed? Like something your parents generation (or the older ones) likes that your peer group also likes enough to form......
What do y'all think about stories where the author is writing a story about your culture/religion/country/etc when they also don't belong to it? Do you mostly look past it? Cringe? Do you like an outsider POV? Do you laugh at it? Is there anything that makes you love or hate a story from an author who is an outsider?
What do y'all think of protagonists (harem or otherwise) getting slave love interests? Not restricting protagonist or love interest gender here btw. Mine is probably a milquetoast opinion on the topic cuz it always seems... icky to me? Even if MC ends up healing, uplifting or even freeing their slave LIs and even if the LI doesn't develop some for......
Any idea how to spot AI in the wild? It's...sort of easy-ish for art, between the glossy finish/studio ghibli/salvador dali ripoffs (though that's not 100% accurate, right?) For text, specifically for when you're dealing with bots... uh, idk, I heard there was a trick where ' - ' gets autocorrected a lot by ai in places where it shouldn't. Apart ......
Does anyone have a flowchart of what they look for to decide whether to read/not read something? Or drop something? Here's some of my categories: Drop if: 1. There is any mention of a 'lazy lifestyle' or similar in the title 2. If there is any mention of the premise of the story mentioning the characters by role (i.e, protagonist, villain, side ch......