BenJepheneT
Light Up Gold - Parquet Courts
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the big difference between this popularity contest and every OTHER popularity contest is that this is dictated by one small corner of the internet where the main market demographic ISN'T represented. given the circumstances, Honeyfeed is trying to submit a work to a publishing company to turn it into a manga and the only way they have to choose a representative is by asking that that small corner of the internet to do it for them, AND since THAT corner of the internet is niche as fuck, it's gonna be inevitable that rigging and personal favours will get involved.Literally everything is a popularity contest though whether you like it or not. Trending on SH and RR are just that, popularity contests. If something isn’t popular, it’s not going to sell well, that’s just facts. If there’s no money to be made, what business trying to turn a profit is going to invest time and money into producing a manga or anime of a particular story?
From a business perspective, it really doesn’t matter how good the story is if it can’t gather a large audience to talk about it which is in essence the act of a popularity contest. What people want isn’t what’s good or what’s good for them, it’s a quick fix to get them feeling high, to get some dopamine and adrenaline pumping.
The masses want junk food. It makes them feel good despite it not being good for them. Since that’s what’s in high demand(popular), that’s what they’ll aim to produce. That’s just how business works.
If an author was able to convince people to vote for their work, regardless of the means, then they’ve got the networking ability to sell their work. That’s what really matters. Can it sell? That’s the question every businessman will ask themselves first and foremost.
yeah sure, it's a popularity contest, but the "popularity" isn't at all popular. it's a circlejerk, and whoever comes out with the most smegma gets sent up to a publishing firm where their marketing department isn't some author with a bigger following base than the other guy. and since they're trying to turn a WEBNOVEL into a MANGA, there's gonna be a whole lot more on the line.
as I said, it's a crapshoot. if you want to appeal to the masses, you first need THE masses themselves. Honeyfeed's userbase isn't the masses. hell, they're barely established as a webnovel host. the "high demand" in question is niche, and the voting system just reinforces that. in all honesty, they should've shortlisted a handful of novels based on views and genres and submitted them to a marketing team where they'll further filter them to select one. doing a "let the public vote for it" stunt is just gonna cost you much if the most prominent representative of your "public" is a guy with a decent member list on discord.
whether will it sell or not is up to the actual businessmen in question, and as far as I'm concerned, a poorly regulated popularity contest isn't business in my eyes.