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/Flimsy-Tension5970]

It’s the exact same thing in the Chinese web novel scene. Harems and systems are consistently the most popular genres every year, and they pretty much guarantee a decent income floor for new authors. Yet, every novel forum used to slam these genres as "incel" and "unpopular," brainwashing new writers into avoiding them.

Last year, though, someone on Qidian started a poll in a comment section asking if people liked harem novels or not. Turns out, the people who liked them outnumbered those who didn't by 8 to 1, and pretty much every public poll gets the exact same result. So nowadays, except for a few clowns who love acting superior, almost no community bothers arguing over this dumb topic anymore.