Tell Us About Some Funny Moments You’ve Had with Reader Rage

[Valmond]

That's an interesting story!
Not my style of read, sadly, but interesting plot nonethless.

Here's another story for you, one that was more 'author rage' than 'reader rage'.
Originally, when I started writing my book, dialogue was signaled this way: -[Dialogue]-
While thoughts were like this: "[Thoughts]"

People got really fucking mad at me for writing that way instead of going "[Dialouge]" and [Thoughts]. They went to the point of leaving a 2 star review and saying: "The story is really great and promising, but the author writes dialogue and thoughts this way and not that way, making the reading experience awful."

And I'm like "My brother in Christ, you're a fucking pussy"



Another case of rage for me is when people go "Yeah, your characters aren't developed at all and you have too many main characters so the story is too stretched. Your goals are too grand!"... after reading only 9 chapters of the story.

Listen here now you little sh*t, just because my characters aren't 2D and require to develop and aren't just 'Yeah, I'm super OP from the start and can kill anything if I put enough effort into it because I'm special' doesn't mean I'm too ambiscious!!!

XD

Don’t think I faced the first issue, but definitely gotten petty low stars before.

The second though, fully relate to it. Not on the main characters part, but on the readers only getting in a few chapters, and then claiming nonsense.

In my case though, they just ignored everything. And claimed nonsense as early as Chapter 2. ?

 

[Bartun]

To have reader rage I need readers first ?

 

[Valmond]

The first comment I received was a brief yet kind message of appreciation from a reader, thanking me for the chapter.

The second comment, however, came from another reader who felt that the main character appears too calm given the circumstances, and argued that it seems unrealistic for him to simply follow others’ instructions.

That said, I had already included tags indicating that the protagonist is both [Cautious Protagonist] and [Mature Protagonist]—he is, after all, a 30-year-old man.

Therefore, I respectfully disagree with the notion that he should react by suddenly lashing out or behaving irrationally, as though he were an unhinged animal. In truth, he scarcely has the energy to function, let alone act out in dramatic ways.

Got me a bit down, but it is what it is.

Yeah, I get that. Met some people like that as well.

 

[Spacerunner357]

This reminds of me when I Get Super Made at how a Bad Person acts in Cultivation Struggles of a Lowly Fox Calling people Bad things and Treating them like Sorry Shit. Sorry for bad Sware:). Made me Laugh super hard what some of the things that Happen

 

[John_Owl]

Not sure if it counts or not, but I wrote a character that is so universally hated that I've had readers say they wanna see punishments against her that would likely get me banned for glorifying certain crimes. Which certainly wouldn't be the intent, but still.

Readers: *insert crimes I'd rather not type here*

Me: Yeah...I'm not doing that. If I do, I'll likely be banned...

 

[Valmond]

Not sure if it counts or not, but I wrote a character that is so universally hated that I've had readers say they wanna see punishments against her that would likely get me banned for glorifying certain crimes. Which certainly wouldn't be the intent, but still.

Readers: *insert crimes I'd rather not type here*

Me: Yeah...I'm not doing that. If I do, I'll likely be banned...

The hell did they do?

 

[John_Owl]

The hell did they do?

She was horrifically abusive toward her son, the MC. Not shown on screen, but mostly just discussed among the characters.

 

[Madmcgee]

She was horrifically abusive toward her son, the MC. Not shown on screen, but mostly just discussed among the characters.

Yeah, I could see how that could spark some good ol' fashioned 'lynch mob' mentality. I'm with them, do crimes in the name of storybook justice!

 

[Golden_Hyde]

I'm boutta release my harem work in two months at best. I can't wait to see people who indulge too much in self-fulfillment trope or harem haters out there trying to throw some rocks on me ?

 

[Valmond]

I remember this happened a few years back. I was on vacation at the time. So, before I went on vacation. I finished a ton of writing. As a result, I wasn’t paying attention to what was going on—on Royal Road.

I believe it was a month or two later, I was informed on a discord on a thread about someone raging on me.

Which the stamp was just before I was heading on vacation for Christmas.

There were various complaints. I remember one was style, eh. Whatever, you’re free to like or dislike whatever you want.

Though, the hilarious complaint was that they said I have a bunch of chapter 1’s.

And I am like thinking to myself.

Me: Well duh, you’re underneath a new volume. The volumes also acts as books themselves. Hence, why the chapter count resets to one.

Each has a beginning, middle, and end.

This was just common sense, but it is like. Did you not see the completion on them at the time?

Needless to say. At the time, I was wondering where the increased traffic was coming from. And that chat was pretty much it.


Nowadays. When I don’t post, I get around 500 to 1k views a day. When I do post, around 2k a day.

And rarely 3k, 4k, 5k in a day.

 

[Uncrowned]

XD

Don’t think I faced the first issue, but definitely gotten petty low stars before.

The second though, fully relate to it. Not on the main characters part, but on the readers only getting in a few chapters, and then claiming nonsense.

In my case though, they just ignored everything. And claimed nonsense as early as Chapter 2. ?

Is that by any chance Adult Woman version of Kurumi without the clock thingy on her yellow eyes?? ?

 

[Thraben]

It's funnier looking back at it now, but it still sticks with me.

I've received a personalized hate email calling me every word 'Alpha males' have ever used to denigrate people because: (drumroll)

My male protagonist liked to be on the bottom. Everyone knows writing your 'strong male protagonist' to also like dommy mommies is real Beta Bitch Cuck behavior as an author, right?

The general 'can't have shit as an author' that pervades this thread soothes my soul.

 

[Dark_Phoenix_Zaetyk]

1. Reader: "This is some gooner shit."
Me: "You clicked on a yuri smut novel, smart pants."

2. Reader: "I can't deal with this MC. She's too dumb."
Me: "Ah yeah, I kinda said she was dumb in the synopsis, and the tags also indicate that."

3. Reader: "These are terrible parents who neglected their child."
Me: "I see, so you classify neglect as when a parent takes their eye off a kid for a few seconds, and that kid hurt themselves?"

4. Reader: "I'm sorry, but I'm not a fan of this story. There is no action."
Me: "Um, there is no action tag. In fact, there is a slice of life tag right there with no action tag. Not even a subplot tag that has anything to do with action."

5. Reader: "I hate this MC and all evil MCs."
Me: *Points to evil MC tag.*

There are so many like this, and these readers are what made me realize that people are less intelligent than I thought.

?When i saw smut,yuri and gooner i had to reply sorry

 

[DaelyxLenAuphydas]

Well nothing on this site, so I'll just talk about fimfic where I do have some actual comments. I tend to get a lot of comments telling me something vague about how I will regret my decisions to have a certain character be androgynous. Which to be fair I did expect that so I can't complain too much. But like... Nah I'm pretty sure I quite intentionally made that choice. I get saying they dont like it, its just funny that they seemed convinced that I personally would come around. Like, no, I like it the way I wrote it thats. Thats why I wrote it that way.

I did get a comment like five minutes before I posted a new chapter demanding a new chapter, so that was pretty funny.

And then finall ythere's the absolute shock I still feel that people apparently actually like my OC's in the story? To the extent of wanting to see more of them just as much as the canon characters (based on a survey I posted). That was pretty astounding to me.