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Chryiss Indeed, you're right about the top 20. However, I don't think we're talking about the same top 20, sorry, I misspoke î_î To put it simply, I was talking more about popularity in: Genre : All -> Type : All -> Status: All -> Sort by: Popularity.
Now if you look at it, it's like:
1 - FL — 11 - FL
2 - FL — 12 - ML
3 - ML — 13 - ML
4 - ML — 14 - FL
5 - FL — 15 - FL
6 - FL — 16 - FL
7 - FL — 17 - FL
8 - ML — 18 - ML
9 - ML — 19 - FL
10 - FL — 20 - FL

In this top 20, there are 13 FL stories, which represents 65%. Which is both "little" and "a lot". It's a reality, the book market has always worked much better for women, even in 1800 with Hugo and Balzac, so it doesn't surprise me more than that and I won't complain more than that either. However, it is not surprising that people, especially guys, are upset about this situation either.
Then, as for the top power ranking, it doesn't mean much to me, I've seen a lot of stories being top of the lists here, on Wattpad or even Scribay being of an awful quality both on the characters, the universe and the dialogues. Unfortunately this kind of story pleases because they are full of clichés and flatter the ego of its readers and that's what people are looking for, to dream, which is normal.
I hope I have shared my point of view with you better.

To be honest, I think the problem comes more from the fact that some people don't want to be interested in other books styles. Just because the story tells a love story doesn't mean that there won't be action, betrayal, or that it won't be in a Sci-Fi or Fantasy universe. Certainly we see more story oriented towards realism and telling the same things, than clearly original things, but the fact is that if there is more female readers, there is nothing we can do about it, as I said earlier, the second problem comes from the fact that more than 3/4 of people don't prefer to leave their comfort zone and read something new. Both women and men. But yes, the fact that love stories have been in the top 20 for several months is a somewhat disturbing fact. It means that the number of women on the site is at least three times higher than the number of men, or we have to wonder about the quality of our stories.