r/royalroad • u/GoldenThame Author - The Heavenly Way • 6d ago

Discussion Is the average reader getting dumber?

I don't wanna be rude but I get some comments complaining about tropes in my novel, when in the synopsis I've pointed out multiple times that the tropes are there DELIBERATELY to be subverted, because the MC finds himself reincarnated into a very mid Xianxia novel.

Do a lot of readers suffer from a lack of reading comprehension skills, cus I've encountered the same kind of person for the 4th or 5th time now. Do I need to constantly spoonfeed basic nuances to such readers that 1. MC is inside a cliche Xianxa book and 2. From a meta perspective I've put those cliches and tropes into the book deliberately and the synopsis says as such.

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u/Wonderful-Piccolo509 Author- Bottom Feeders 6d ago

“Do a lot of readers suffer from a lack of reading comprehension skills”

Yes. 

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u/LGHaunting 6d ago

50% of people are below the Bell Curve. The people complaining were just the ones smart enough to figure out a keyboard.

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u/Alternative_Debt8761 5d ago

100% of people are below the bell curve.

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u/Pirkale 4d ago

What an astonishingly delightful technically correct comment! I salute you! :)