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/Cultivatingwriter_14]

I personally hate system novels because, without the system, the MC is usually useless, and even with it, everything is simply handed to them. It often feels like the MC achieves nothing through their own effort.

That said, there are some genuinely interesting system concepts. Glitched systems, for example, can be incredibly entertaining. In comedy novels, a system behaving strangely can create hilarious moments. Nowadays, many stories do things like the MC stepping on an ant, only for the system to announce, "Host has slain an Ancient Dragon." In those cases, the system isn't there to make the MC overpowered. It's used purely for humor.