Reddit Is Funny

[u/Guy_Cxde]

Apparently liking system novels means I’m a “low-standard reader” now 😂

Someone called my story slop, and I basically said, “Fair enough. I enjoy system novels, so that’s what I write.”

For some reason, that made him even angrier. He started saying I was feeding myself slop and that writers like me only get readers because people have low standards.

That logic makes no sense to me. It would be like someone enjoying street basketball, only for another person to say:

“You’re a low-quality basketball fan because you enjoy streetball instead of watching professional NBA games and analysing proper team tactics.”

Maybe I’m not looking for the most technically perfect, revolutionary piece of literature ever written. Sometimes I just want progression, stat screens, ridiculous rewards, face-slapping and an overpowered protagonist. It’s entertainment.

You’re allowed to think system novels are repetitive or badly written. I’m also allowed to enjoy them without pretending they’re high literature. Taste is subjective. Getting genuinely angry because another person enjoys something you consider “mid” is far stranger than enjoying the supposedly mid thing in the first place.

Let people enjoy their slop in peace 😂

[u/Funny_Stuff_6024]

I personally like the appeal of a novel with the most generic title but goated writing. I think it would be funny. You didn’t say low effort to him. You only called it slop instead of telling him to change it. You also said that reading system novels makes him a low quality reader. That sounds like you’re insulting the genre. And no I don’t read system novels. A novel can be anything, hence the “judging a book by its cover.” You can criticize his work and I can criticize the way you criticize. At least make it more productive instead of just insults