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Hexbears who still have a bad habit of lurking Reddit, is /r/WritingPrompts still a screaming indictment of why both mainstream fiction and mainstream fiction consumers fucking suck? (hexbear.net)
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Is it still an ongoing failure, post by post, to actually be just writing prompts instead of "here's my le epic predictable plot twist. I need someone to be my personal ChatGPT and write this out for me because I'm just le Ideas Guy" bazinga behavior?

Is it still "dae le number over your head" "dae le multiverse" "you wake up as Hitler, but with a TWIST" and "my-hero does something le clever and epic, now write it out for me" as its most common repetitive more-than-prompts?

I don't lurk there anymore. That's a dead dove I've kept in the fridge for a long time. dead-dove-1

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[–] Cammy@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't think it was ever really good. People were more interested in making wild prompts than actually writing them.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So many "idea guys" wanting uncredited underlings to do the work of making their TWEEESTS into actual stories.

[–] Cammy@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Prompt: You're a paid writer and a random user wants to make a quick buck.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago

"You will fulfill my bazinga fantasies where King Bazinga epically memes his way to godhood. You will be paid in le Reddit karma." so-true

[–] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

90% of reddit self submissions on ALL read like responses to a writing prompt.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

90% of reddit self submissions on ALL read like responses to a writing prompt.

You are smarter than the "NPCs" around you. Your smirking passive-aggressive dismissal radiates out with every "um," "actually," and "sigh" that you type out. You saw a woke SJW DEI and owned them with facts and reason. You thought you were going to get downvoted, but instead you got le Reddit gold from a kind stranger. joker-amerikkklap

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Submitted a prompt where a redditor actually writes a story but it got deleted because the premise was too unrealistic

[–] D61@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

...story ...unrealistic

But... bu...but.... joker-stare

[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I haven't been there in a while, but it did at least used to be kinda good right? I remember a few decent stories I read there. It's mostly bad, but it is just meant as a place where people can write without much judgement or having to think of an idea so I don't really see the low quality as a problem

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

but it did at least used to be kinda good right?

Either I saw it differently, or you were there in a different period of time than I was.

My primary problem was that the sub didn't present writing prompts, it presented more or less full outlines with the "twist" typically already included, not leaving much for the other person to do but provide unpaid labor by filling it out.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I simply do not lurk or post on r*ddit because I am not a lib.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

I don't want to, either! That's why I asked if anyone else did instead! kiryu-slam

[–] bruhbeans@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 months ago

Christ, writingprompts was one of the first subs I blocked, absolute dogshit

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

"my-hero does something le clever and epic, now write it out for me"

Oh, god, searching that guy's name on that sub can inflict lethal amounts of psychic damage. I think this one takes the cake (though it could be written into an entertaining story about how he massively fucked up his intended mission)

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I remember one being "my-hero finds out that WE ARE LIVING IN LE SIMULATION(tm) and decides to cause LE SIMULATION(tm) to have a lag spike by detonating a lot of nukes in the same point of outer space" bazinga

[–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Seems like it yeah, r/hfy is also shitty. A shame because this bite/post size story format could be very fun, we should think of making a community for that here, one that would be actually good of course.

I'd like to know an actually good community of peoples writing short stories, unfortunately we don't seem to have any here on lemmy and the only "short stories community" I know outside here are r/writingprompt and r/hfy.