SailusGebel
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I think I misunderstood you. I thought you meant authors should avoid writing and using popular genres and tags. What you meant is, write popular stuff, but don't forget to add some unique tags and\or genres, right? I agree with it.Personally, I think yes, it has to be popular. You can't just write genericly in those categories though without participating in a lottery. For every BL Smut novel at 100k views there are hundreds with 10 chapters and a few thousand views. If you don't have actual draw, you'll fizzle fast.
Its not hard to have a low tagged draw either. But when people just say write the popular tags, all you're saying is participate in the lottery. Have something unique that also makes your story easy to find. For many stories, its just proper tagging, not changing anything.
The niche tags get you from the level of small up to medium readership, then to go to large from medium you need to be in the big three, isekai, smut, litrpg.
Before I authored, I never would read stories with less than 100k views, and only in popular categories, except for a single niche category I'd rather not share. Just the nature of how I was as a reader, and I suspect most other readers are, is you want to read "popular mainstream stories", but you need to get there somehow.
As for not reading anything with less than 100k views, I don't know. Some readers look at the amount of chapters, some look at ratings, some at reviews, some only look for cetain genres and tags and don't care about anything else. What are the actual percentages for every type? We don't know.