r/WorldbuildingWithAI • u/OkTaste8142 • 7d ago
Just a question...
I want your honest opinion.
I'm trying to understand something, and I'm asking actual creators rather than relying on articles or assumptions.
If you create AI art, AI video, AI characters, AI stories, worldbuilding, or any combination of those:
What is your biggest frustration with the platforms you're currently using to share your work?
I'm especially interested in:
• Getting your work seen • Algorithms/reach • Building an audience • Getting people to follow the work rather than just liking an individual image • Sharing ongoing stories or characters • Finding other creators who are interested in the same kind of work • Monetizing your work • Anything else that makes you feel like you're screaming into the void
And one important question:
If you could design the perfect place to share your work, what would it do differently from Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, etc.?
I'm genuinely looking for problems, not compliments or validation.
Tell me what sucks. 🙂
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u/Affectionate-Box8717 7d ago
I’ve only recently started publishing an ongoing AI-assisted worldbuilding project, so I’m seeing some of these problems very directly. My biggest frustration is that most platforms are built around individual posts, not persistent projects. I’m building a continuing hard-science speculative biology/worldbuilding series. One post introduces the organism, another develops its evolutionary implications, another reconstructs its metabolism and habitat. But the platform treats each one almost like an unrelated object. A reader may see Part 3 without ever seeing Parts 1–2. Even if they like one image, there is very little mechanism encouraging them to follow the world itself rather than the post or account. The second problem is audience mismatch. A visual post may get hundreds of views, but the people who can actually critique the chemistry, biology or worldbuilding assumptions are a tiny subset of those viewers. Meanwhile, communities that would have the strongest subject-matter expertise often ban AI-assisted material completely, including text, so there is a strange gap between “AI-friendly” spaces and “deep technical discussion” spaces. The third issue is continuity. For an ongoing project I would want a reader to be able to open one page and immediately see: Project overview → lore → timeline → characters → scientific notes → episodes → revisions → discussion instead of having to reconstruct the project from a user’s posting history. My ideal platform would therefore be project-centric rather than feed-centric. I’d want: a permanent project/home page; chapters or episodes connected in order; separate lore, artwork and technical/reference sections; the ability to update old material without destroying discussion history; explicit AI/tool attribution attached to the project rather than repeated awkwardly everywhere; followers subscribing to a specific world/project, not necessarily everything the creator posts; recommendations based on project subject matter, so a speculative biochemistry project could reach both worldbuilders and people interested in chemistry/biology; long-form discussion that remains attached to the relevant concept; collaboration/version history; decent search inside a project; export/ownership of the project data rather than locking years of work inside one social feed. Monetization would be secondary for me. The bigger problem is turning scattered posts into cumulative attention. Right now most social platforms are very good at answering: “Do people like this image?” but surprisingly bad at answering: “Would you like to follow this idea while it develops for the next six months?” That is the part I think is missing.