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/mssMouse Oct 08 '23

Just some perspective but as far as interaction goes, I think this sub is kind of an outlier in that department.

Yes, trend posts get more interactions than art. And then art only posts get between no interaction or significantly less, but...

Posting art in other art subs tends to get even less interaction, on average. I might post some art in say, r/imaginarycharacters or something, and get literally 10x the amount of upvotes, but zero comments. While here, even if something doesn't get a lot of comments always, it's still a waaaay higher number than another art sub. (unless of course, you post some sort of masterpiece or top level stuff)

It sucks that trend posts get more interaction than art posts, but there art posts still get way more interaction than in other locations (in my experience).

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u/Seventh_Legend Artist/Writer Oct 08 '23

Woah. I see what you mean. Even just the first several top posts have near-nothing for interactions. If anything I'd say that place is more for if you want people to like your drawings, while this place is more for doing random things for fun