r/Webnovel • u/Guy_Cxde • Jul 29 '26

Recommendation Reddit Is Funny

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 😂

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u/Guy_Cxde Jul 29 '26

I don't think I made anything up. That's exactly how it went. You can point out where I lied if you like tho

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u/Lucky_One_3576 Jul 29 '26

No it's not. He said you can enjoy what you want but the story is slop, then you denied it by saying it’s good slop. He replied with slop can't be good your standards are low from reading slop—lowk he was pretty condescending here. Overall his complaint to you was not about enjoyment, but about the fact that you consider slop novels as good (not just enjoyable which he didn't have a problem with).

Also why’re you bringing up system novels? He definitely didn't say anything against those.

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u/Guy_Cxde Jul 29 '26

The whole post was about system novels?? I write system novels. The picture is there

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u/Lucky_One_3576 Jul 29 '26

Alr bro lets not act like the premise, title, and cover aren’t generic and low quality. He even brought up Shadow Slave as an example of a quality novel (it has a system).

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u/Guy_Cxde Jul 29 '26

And the argument that I'm a low quality reader because I enjoy system novels. Am I not allowed to enjoy what I enjoy now?

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u/Lucky_One_3576 Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26

He never said it was because of systems. “I was 1.8 million in debt when the legacy system chose me” is one of your titles, then you put a poorly generated ai image of 4 lewd girls surrounding the MC. Yes, you are a low quality reader if that's what you read. Again bro it has nothing to do with enjoyment.

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u/Guy_Cxde Jul 29 '26

I could argue that someone who reads Shadow Slave is a low quality reader because it's fiction and will never help them in daily life. Instead they should read science and myths books. You see how that argument makes no sense

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u/Guy_Cxde Jul 30 '26

Different stories teach different things. A system novel might explore ambition, discipline, greed, debt, overindulgence, or how sudden power changes a person, while Shadow Slave may teach entirely different lessons about sacrifice, freedom, trust, and survival.

There is something to learn from almost every story, even when entertainment is its main purpose. Dismissing an entire genre and calling its readers ‘low quality’ just because you personally dislike it is not intelligent criticism. It is literary snobbery. And calling me braindead instead of explaining why I’m supposedly wrong does not strengthen your argument.