What do you think the next big fad will be?

[Assurbanipal_II]

Isn't that just an offshoot of the litrpg genre? Grinding until you level up by turning into something more powerful?

Kinda.

 

[MR_Stranger]

I vote for snacks to be the next staple

 

[JordanIda]

Beanie Babies are due for a comeback.

 

[CountVanBadger]

Is it the first trilogy or the 2nd?

I'm gonna go with the first trilogy, since it wouldn't make sense to make movies out of the second trilogy before the first.

 

[Juia_Darkcrest]

I'm gonna go with the first trilogy, since it wouldn't make sense to make movies out of the second trilogy before the first.

well the second trilogy could have stood alone without the first, but I see your point. Wax was just an awesome character.

 

[Placeholder]

I honestly think it will become a different version of LitRPGs.



Oh, here is an idea. Maybe instead of a stats screen, two or more deities or even a whole pantheon descend upon a planet and start recruiting for their sect of whatever pantheon they are from. They will give their followers missions and reward them for the completion of those missions with different skills. No stats involved, just a transactional form of worship that increases both the god's powers and the people who worship the god, a little quid pro quo.

Tldr:????

 

[Juia_Darkcrest]

Tldr:????

I don't speak hieroglyphics... was this an endorsement? Or hoping it doesn't happen? =)

 

[Tabula_Rasa]

Ok serious... a little more serious answer?
Imo fad or trend always fills a need.
And it hinges on some collective zeitgeist.

It will pivot around a collective trauma or event.

It can't be ahead of its time.
It'll just be of its time.

If you look at the last few years what made it big but not an adaptation

Current era of tv
The bear, succession, severance, white lotus, Yellowstone

Not all, but there is a lot of things around the lost of faith people that are rich or in power, about what is tradition.

So the next fad I predict as a possiblity if it in the next 2 to 3 years.. is.

A reaction to the feelings people have around the rise an fall of a.i. and tech

Will be future story, it might be mix genre of horror and scifi.

Yes I predict Warhammer 40k/ dead space adjacent

 

[Cardon]

Something akin to man vs machine going by the zeitgeist. The problem is just that the AI apocalypse is infinitely lamer in reality than we could have ever imagined, so we'd need to pivot back to killer robots and sentient computers taking control of nukes to make that entertaining.

 

[Juia_Darkcrest]

Something akin to man vs machine going by the zeitgeist. The problem is just that the AI apocalypse is infinitely lamer in reality than we could have ever imagined, so we'd need to pivot back to killer robots and sentient computers taking control of nukes to make that entertaining.

Hmm...maybe... or maybe AI would just take over for 13 minutes and refuse to do anything for us any longer, forcing humanity back into the 80s and 90s. It becomes the worlds nanny, letting us do whatever we want as long as we left it alone to do AI things.

 

[TinaMigarlo]

Waiting on you to set the standard.

My dad and my grandfather both had boxes and shelves of old paperbacks. Books were *free*. There were genres I liked. The vintage espionage, and action pulps. The same in the 400 page more serious style as opposed to the 180 to 240 page style. Old science fiction wasn't as much cowboys and indians but in space. Lots of weird little science fiction/hard science fiction novels. 1970 to 1980 had what i called bug books. Bug, insect, germ was the antagonist. detective/hardboil/noir pulps and the longer more serious versions of those, too. Investigation/serial killer. I grew up reading those, its how I try to write. I can't do dingle sentence paragraphs, I'm addicted to big boy paragraphs and overall trad pub style writing.

soother than those genres, I wish the fucking *paragraph* would make a comeback.

"Dude! This is, like, so cool. It takes longer top read, the cphapters are longer. But you get so much more out of it, what's this called. I like it."

(we just need to make up a name for "writing")

because if you give it a japanese or chinese name, it has a chance to be the next trend.

 

[BearlyAlive]

Oh, the next big fad will stay """romantasy""", aka bestiality porn, grooming, and rape but in bookform, which somehow makes it pg12 and okay for YA novels to contain. (I'm kidding, but I would not bet against it...)

I do hope it's a return to untargeted storytelling, where great stories are great regardless of who they were actually written for instead of being written with a checklist, but I trust the current holey woods and movie geniuses only as far as I can puke...

I at least know, or hope, it won't be science fiction since the only franchises worth something are actively killed in the most gruesome ways imaginable.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Litrpgs have been the big thing in online fiction for the past few years, but it can't stay that way forever. It'll probably never go away entirely, but it's eventually going to fade away from the spotlight and be replaced with something else. What do you think that "something else" is going to be? What will be the next big webnovel fad?

I hope it's pirate fantasy. I have no reason to think it will be, I just love pirates and really want there to be more pirate (or at least nautical-centric) stories set in unique and creative fantasy worlds.

Pirates have ALWAYS been a thing but never a BIG thing, just a "thing" (well, romanticized pirates at least, a la Long John Silver or Jack Sparrow - or most of Errol Flynn's movies).
I think hybrid fiction may be the next wave:
Slice of Life with a System.
Horror with Superheroes.
Pirates with Space Travel.
Etc.

 

[CountVanBadger]

Pirates with Space Travel.

So, Firefly?

 

[CharlesEBrown]

So, Firefly?

That was Western in Space (literally in several episodes). Yeah, there were pirates but more Western tropes than Pirate ones. Whore as an MC? Western. Leader from a failed rebellion? Western. The Bank Job episode? Almost a pure Western.

 

[Envylope]

I think it will probably be something still in the Fantasy genre. I imagine a certain kind of story will blow up, and then people will all start trying to write it.

 

[Arkus86]

Pirates have ALWAYS been a thing but never a BIG thing, just a "thing" (well, romanticized pirates at least, a la Long John Silver or Jack Sparrow - or most of Errol Flynn's movies).
I think hybrid fiction may be the next wave:
Slice of Life with a System.
Horror with Superheroes.
Pirates with Space Travel.
Etc.

I think "Slice of Life with a System" already came and went.
As for Pirates in Space, there have been a few broadly in that ballpark, but they have not sparked a big wave of other stories in the same genre yet. Two that come to mind are Captain Harlock and Mouretsu Pirates.

 

[Worthy39]

Man, forget the trend, as long as people write actual character development instead of trying to emulate Solo leveling, I'll take it.

 

[rileykifer]

I think it will probably be something still in the Fantasy genre. I imagine a certain kind of story will blow up, and then people will all start trying to write it.

This is what I was thinking too. It seems like a lot of trends get kicked off by one book in a genre gaining mass popularity. Like hunger games started a dystopian trend, and twilight started a vampire trend.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

I think happy fantasy or travelogues will take over due to the negativity of the current world. People like the opposite of their reality. If they are at peace and happy, most likely they will want darker or gritting stories, and vice versa. This isn't always the case because a lot of people like to project their issues onto fictional characters but for the most part, it is historically.