An attempt at analysis: 87 days of trending

Makimaam

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1 out 3 of every novel in top 10 trending is GL
Group
N​
%​
Best Rank​
Top 25​
Top 10​
Favs/ch​
GL only
254​
16.1%​
29​
43.3%​
11.4%​
14.2​
GL + GB
131​
8.3%​
30​
37.4%​
11.5%​
29.9​
GB only
169​
10.7%​
33​
35.5%​
7.7%​
19.2​
Neither
1027​
65.0%​
32​
35.2%​
8.3%​
12.3​
Baseline
1581​
100%​
31​
36.7%​
9.0%​
14.5​
  • GL only is the strongest for peak rank — 43% top-25 rate vs 37% baseline.
  • GL + GB combo has average peak rank but double the engagement (29.9 favs/ch). 44% of all Gender Bender novels are also GL. GB without GL underperforms, below baseline on top 10

  • GL only: great peak rank, average engagement
  • GB only: below-average peak rank, above-average engagement
  • GL+GB: average peak rank, insane engagement

Overlap
N​
%​
Best Rank​
% Top 25​
% Top 10​
Favs/ch​
Female only
402​
25.4%​
30​
39.6%​
12.9%​
19.3​
Male only
227​
14.4%​
30​
36.6%​
9.7%​
17.2​
Both
15​
0.9%​
—​
—​
—​
—​
Neither
937​
59.3%​
32​
35.1%​
7.0%​
13.1​

non-conclusive since authors are not tagging their novels with gender properly and im not going through 937 novels to check the protag's gender.

also,

Female leads go from 25% of the platform → 38% of top 10. Male leads stay flat at ~15–17% across all tiers.
59% of novels don't tag protagonist gender at all, and they underperform across the board (7% top 10 vs 9% baseline). Tagging gender at all correlates with better outcomes, and female-tagged especially so.
Thanks. I’m curious whether you have the same analysis for Fanfiction and Harem.
 

Dawnathon

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rest of the charts. Futanari is highest tag with favourites/chapter ratio. futanari readers be liking ig
That's really funny, since when I first started posting on SH I actually thought that tag would alienate a lot of potential readers if my story used it. Never would have guessed it's the exact opposite, if anything.
 

Sylver

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in the site bruv. just search your name
Is there a search function to see like the times my story was trending? Cuz I check the trending list every three days to see if my story makes the list, it's rare when it does and I don't think it's ever made it in the front page for trending, not since my first year of writing, that is.
 

greyblob

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Is there a search function to see like the times my story was trending? Cuz I check the trending list every three days to see if my story makes the list, it's rare when it does and I don't think it's ever made it in the front page for trending, not since my first year of writing, that is.
 

Sylver

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Thanks! Ah, only once this year was I ranked within the top 25.

I thought you meant that I was trending in the front page top 10. That's what I'm aiming for, well mostly to just grow my audience. Hopefully. Fingers crossed.
 
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