i checked the ranking a couple of months ago and i noticed novels focused on romance are climbing the ranks and now it's almost everywhere in the top 100 .
i was never interested in romance and i avoid those kind of novels because i don't find joy in reading and now am wondering how long this trend will keep going ..
i hope it ends soon cause the more attraction this genre gets the less focus the genres i like receives which translates to less support >:
i felt this for a while but eastern and fantasy novels rly did meet a bottleneck .
it's late here so am just ranting and am just curious what people think , too lazy to reply so discuss it amongst yourselves i love reading comments while sitting on a fence :>
why is romance taking over ?
FastingDragon I’m not a fan of romance so I’m kind of agreeing with you on this.
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Sheer production. Romances are produced faster.
and most of the reader is female
Its more popular.
They brought over a lot of Wattpad authors, so it's going to start looking rather similar soon...
yeah :cry: :cry: :cry:
wattpad shucks with all those harry potter x malfoy BL, those werewolves alpha thingies, etc
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And, in groups for writers, there's a lot of ads for people interested in taking part in paid teams dedicated solely to write romances for the web... Werewolf erotica, vampire, ABO, CEO stories, the most popular romantic tropes nowadays.
It seems it earns money enough to get teams involved in its mass production...
I've never seen a single ad searching writers for cultivation novels, though...
Majority of the people reading novels are females. Romance is their preferred genre.
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I'm going, to be honest. I enjoy some romance novels, but most aren't that good. I'm not too fond of the ML who abuses or is a bully to the FL. Especially if the ML won't change, it's so frustrating when I read a novel like that. I don't understand why books like that get so much attention. There are so few good romance novels, which is infuriating. That's my opinion, and I'm trying not to be mean to those people with those types of Romance Novels.
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Midnight_Alpha
I have a completed novel... the story revolves around the Male Lead who is loving and so in love with the female Lead. But the Female Lead keep running away and so he has to keep chasing her just to prove that his love is true...the readers ended up hating the girl and taking pity of the Male Lead.
Every story has a different twist and different flavor.
Because every author has different mindset.
Because majority readers are females. And yeah, it's really hard to write martial art in this bulk of romances (atleast in my country server).
Midnight_Alpha That sound about like 98% of every chinese story with a female lead. Good luck finding that 2%.
I am forced to agree too lol.
I was informed by system that my story is eligible for Best Original and even Feature for a Week. But in the end it was not picked because Eastern Fantasy never got picked. The only eastern fantasy that got pick is the inhouse translators lol...other than that, yes, it is all romance and FL.
Basically, if your story is a ML, sorry to tell you. It will almost never featured because ML sucks lol. It does not need to be a romance. No ML will ever get feature:X
if i had to sum it up it's becoming a fast food chain of novels
i guess alot of people like romance :/
but i mean i also do like romance but it mostly depends on whats happining in the book
Because romance readers in particular are obsessive and go through novels quickly, meaning they buy a lot of coins and make Webnovel very happy.
The featured are all FL. Overtime, all the male readers no longer open their apps to check the features anymore:X
So it end up with females readers only. It not becos majority readers are females. Males have no motivation to click anything...
Good job webnovel lol...
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Although I write romance, I think the features and spotlight should be more balanced. Also, they really should carefully consider what they are promoting, since they show no care picking books with no punctuation whatsoever as banners.
The last strategy of translating books which are not living up the expectations and being dropped is what is making male readers leave Webnovel, if they really do.
Also, female readers are less picky and don't mind 'short books' (like, when a eastern fantasy can get 1500 chapters a romance author wrote 5 books of 300 chapters each).
And when the female readers don't like a book, they don't complain, they just leave silently and go to another. So the bad writers keep producing and producing happily.
Hence the disparity.
Yes, I actually agree that female readers dont mind shorter chapters work. But at the same time, the female writers sometimes their 300 chapters = 1500 chapters for the female writers. So the length is pretty much the same.
I feel that many of the eastern fantasy side are horribly rushed and short too...it more like junk food lol.