Number 1 on Treading

[Racosharko]

I'll call @Racosharko to assess it. I'm pretty sure your comment is still polite.

 

[Ge.Dune]

The formulas for successful publications have long been clear. Each one is designed for a specific type of reader (viewer).Not everyone can keep up with trends, and not everyone wants to. But if you really want popularity, why not?I'm just curious—who is the main audience for this site, and does the formula in the headline work?

 

[TinaMigarlo]

Good work!
(hope I look good in green, lol...)

 

[FRWriter]

Tread carefully

 

[L1aei]

I'm just curious—who is the main audience for this site, and does the formula in the headline work?

SH is the little sister to Novel Updates. If you don't know why I'm bringing that up, it's because before SH even existed, the target audience were greedy, hungry little fellas who consumed a bunch of translated WNs. We're talking LNs, Xianxia, Wuxia, and whatever else.

That's the start of the general audience. Want me to go into the specifics? It'll give you an idea that the formula here is more like it's a status as a sanctuary. Weird, right?

Biggest hitters here are the isekai and LitRPG stuff. Of course. We got plenty of shared interests coming from NU or NUF (the "F" is just the forum there) eager to read original novels rather than the translated content. Novel Updates was a big influence for the audience we have today.

Lot's of anime aesthetics carried over from that.

The other big influencer? Okay, that takes a little more knowledge into the timing of SH being formed. There were several other novel platforms with writers who were not satisfied with their conditions. When they saw an invitation to new, fertile soil, they took root.

We got authors from Royal Road who were just done skirting around the strict PC-policing, hard-logic biased, and political drama-centric rules designed to kick anyone not writing their niche. They could come over here and express their darker side by finally venting into their content everything they had pent up back in RRL; that pretty much created a sort of high-tolerance for us all when it came to whatever is published here.

We got a flood of gender bender, transgender, and more from another platform I'll leave unnamed that really dropped the ball when it came to them securing ethical guidelines (it's bad); plus, a lot of authors there were tired of GB/TG/GL/BL/etc. stuff always being a kink over story.

We also had people who simply saw this as a new place where they could relax, lay on some fluff, and point out where the scaffolding should go for their comfort to be undisturbed; a real slice-of-life moment for novelists in the making.

Basically, Scribblehub was a refugee camp for specific subcultures that felt stifled elsewhere.

 

[Worthy39]

Man, you're number one on treading? That's impressive. Too bad it's not number one on trending.

 

[L1aei]

Man, you're number one on treading? That's impressive. Too bad it's not number one on trending.

Took me a couple rereads to catch on "you're" was "you were" there.

 

[FRWriter]

Took me a couple rereads to catch on "you're" was "you were" there.

I think you are reading too deeply into his post... he made the same joke I did. "TREADING" not "TRENDING".
However, yes. He is no longer at the top now.

 

[L1aei]

I think you are reading too deeply into his post... he made the same joke I did. "TREADING" not "TRENDING".
However, yes. He is no longer at the top now.

Nah, just my eyes. I didn't catch that until you pointed it out.

 

[Ge.Dune]

SH is the little sister to Novel Updates. If you don't know why I'm bringing that up, it's because before SH even existed, the target audience were greedy, hungry little fellas who consumed a bunch of translated WNs. We're talking LNs, Xianxia, Wuxia, and whatever else.

That's the start of the general audience. Want me to go into the specifics? It'll give you an idea that the formula here is more like it's a status as a sanctuary. Weird, right?

Biggest hitters here are the isekai and LitRPG stuff. Of course. We got plenty of shared interests coming from NU or NUF (the "F" is just the forum there) eager to read original novels rather than the translated content. Novel Updates was a big influence for the audience we have today.

Lot's of anime aesthetics carried over from that.

The other big influencer? Okay, that takes a little more knowledge into the timing of SH being formed. There were several other novel platforms with writers who were not satisfied with their conditions. When they saw an invitation to new, fertile soil, they took root.

We got authors from Royal Road who were just done skirting around the strict PC-policing, hard-logic biased, and political drama-centric rules designed to kick anyone not writing their niche. They could come over here and express their darker side by finally venting into their content everything they had pent up back in RRL; that pretty much created a sort of high-tolerance for us all when it came to whatever is published here.

We got a flood of gender bender, transgender, and more from another platform I'll leave unnamed that really dropped the ball when it came to them securing ethical guidelines (it's bad); plus, a lot of authors there were tired of GB/TG/GL/BL/etc. stuff always being a kink over story.

We also had people who simply saw this as a new place where they could relax, lay on some fluff, and point out where the scaffolding should go for their comfort to be undisturbed; a real slice-of-life moment for novelists in the making.

Basically, Scribblehub was a refugee camp for specific subcultures that felt stifled elsewhere.

Thank you for such a detailed answer!) It’s wonderful when people have a place where they feel good!

 

[LeilaniOtter]

You really don't offer a very good case for your writing skills when you mistake "treading" and "trending". Or was that just autocorrect being a bitch to you? ?

 

[seavmun88]

MtF GB is more popular just because a lot of male readers have that fantasy whether they want to admit it or not lmao. Just think of all those bro talks that inevitably have a "If you could be a girl for a day would you?" pop up and youll get a whole room of Hell Yeah I Would. A lot of them just for perverted reasons which ties right into your third point haha

 

[CharlesEBrown]

You really don't offer a very good case for your writing skills when you mistake "treading" and "trending". Or was that just autocorrect being a bitch to you? ?

.Could be worse. Could have been threading... Then the OP would be subject to endless needling and ... oh, right.

 

[LeilaniOtter]

.Could be worse. Could have been threading... Then the OP would be subject to endless needling and ... oh, right.

Or "breading", and we learn about their favorite recipes for scones, biscuits, and crumpets.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Or "breading", and we learn about their favorite recipes for scones, biscuits, and crumpets.

That would have us crying in our beer batter....

 

[LeilaniOtter]

That would have us crying in our beer batter....

Personally I think one must be born and bread to become a baker.
Not me,
I dread making bread.
I never spread out my ingredients correctly,
I don't use enough of my head, no matter what they said, and feel miss-led.
After all the proofing, kneading, and baking, I just don;t have enough cred.
And I;m left with nothing but being fed the dreaded dead bread.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Personally I think one must be born and bread to become a baker.
Not me,
I dread making bread.
I never spread out my ingredients correctly,
I don't use enough of my head, no matter what they said, and feel miss-led.
After all the proofing, kneading, and baking, I just don;t have enough cred.
And I;m left with nothing but being fed the dreaded dead bread.

Now it's sounding like the crew list for "The Hunting of the Snark" (at least the musical version - don't remember if the characters introduced themselves in the original "Agony in Eight Fits" or if that was added by Mike Batt "I came as a baker on this escapade. I only kneaded the bread...")