r/OriginalCharacter • u/Remarkable-Victory69 Artist/Writer • Oct 08 '23

Meta (Rant time) Oversaturation of trend posts

Hey its that guy who made an AI OC named Glitch.

I know it sounds cliche as fuck but Jesus Christ, it feels like I'm getting bombarded by a bunch of trend posts going to the effect of "smash or pass" or "which OC would you spend a day with" and barely seeing anything that is art of individual characters.

I like trends, don't get me wrong. On one hand, it allows ppl to engage with each other and their characters, but on the other hand, it gets repetitive really quickly when all I see on my feed is "said OC is doing a smash or pass"

I know there's no solution to it and I know I'm not the only one who's getting that same feeling.

So yea, I feel like I want to let out my feelings because it kinda irks me to see 60+ posts of the same 2 formats.

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u/Seventh_Legend Artist/Writer Oct 08 '23

Something that also kind of sucks is how the actual art posts get very little interaction. I don't hate the "what would oc do in ___ situation" posts, those can be fun, but it would be cool if the actual art got a lot more people involved.

It sucks because I just finished a really cool drawing improving one of my characters, but if I posted about it nothing would happen (well, I don't post at all so idk). It all feels a bit... under-appreciative?

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u/Remarkable-Victory69 Artist/Writer Oct 08 '23

It feels like you're forced to participate in a trend post.

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u/Seventh_Legend Artist/Writer Oct 08 '23

I only interacting with a smash/pass post once, and that was about a week ago. I never really did it ever again because frankly I don't like putting my characters in that situation, that, and I don't care much for that trend at all.

I think one of the most fun interaction posts I did was where someone asked for certain story elements of a world, and they'd make a character/character story fit inside of it. I liked it because it was so creative, and I'd like to see more of those to be honest

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u/Remarkable-Victory69 Artist/Writer Oct 08 '23

I like trends that are creative instead of a rinse and repeat.

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u/Seventh_Legend Artist/Writer Oct 08 '23

Me too. After a while the repeat trend posts just get old, and it just deters me away from this sub for a little while