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I don't know the demographic of the readers here, but I'm guessing there are a lot of young readers. So they tend to be less critical of these cliches.
But I guess this doesn't answer how these cliches came to be in the first place.
Why? why ? why?
_BoredToDeath_ To hit the bulleyes
_BoredToDeath_
Utterly, sadly, 'floppely'.
Sadly, most stories here that are remotely innovative with the cliche or could be considered an original concept, flops.
WN limit promotion of such stories because majority of readers aren't reading them. Since readers aren't reading such stories, the amount of energy to invest for the finish may be stalled, leading to a hiatus or drop.
Veronica8 yeah true
Veronica8 yeah true
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Damn, all of these are cliches that I don't wanna read. They're so many of them in webnovel that can't be keep count!
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_BoredToDeath_
Well, what can I say? If WN favors copies of Chinese novels with cliches Chinese audience picks, is because their staff is Chinese, and most of their readers are in the Eastern countries. It's how they see the market.
They aim at the short-term profit, and if it's selling, they replicate the formula until it stops selling.
First, it was the rough CEO trope, then the endless pampered wife trope, then the mafia lord trope, then the werewolf trope.
But if it sells, it's because most women indulge, even if secretly, in those fantasies.
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[unknown] true but want to read something new like novel naver has few good stories but all are hard to MTL
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I'll say this from experience. When I wrote romance books on time traveling idols and parallel timelines, wn didn't promote them much. The moment I wrote a cliche CEO novel... BAM! It was heavily promoted, got banners and crossed 1k fans.
Webnovel is reluctant to promote novels which they deem as 'commercially unviable'. If they think it won't make money, they won't promote. It's a sad reality coz there are tons of hidden gems out there which go unnoticed.