Through things like online texts or online novels, it is not difficult for us to see some laws.
When a field, such as literature, is occupied by capital, there will be a large number of amateur players who come in to fill the numbers. These people do not care about the quality of their works, and even blatantly denounce traditional literature. Correspondingly, the readership of online novels is also changing. That is to say, today's adults, people who have serious things to do do not read online novels at all, and those who read online texts are about equal to students in school and idle people in society. The works of those online writers are getting worse and worse, and the more readers with low education, low culture, and low social experience, they look at it more and more refreshingly. At this point, the ecology of online novels as a whole was destroyed by these people. Now you say you're writing online novels, and people's first reaction is: this guy doesn't have any special skills and can't find a job, so...
After the formation of this ecology, how long it can be maintained is completely dependent on traffic to feed, because the quality is no longer important, only rely on traffic. So you will find that many online fiction stations often appear in a situation, that is, many so-called authors began to write a theme or a setting. Because this setting is on fire, just like the batch of watermelon and poisonous chicken soup at Station B. Everyone began to write this kind of thing in a hurry, which is the inevitable result of traffic being king rather than quality king.
So now I would rather go to Station B to see ghost animals than spend money to read novels on those novel websites. With the emergence of short videos and other more novel forms of entertainment, the livelihood of that kind of novel station is bound to be difficult every day, and the inner volume is becoming more and more serious - because you no longer pay attention to quality, you just fight for traffic, and your works no longer have souls, but are just spiritual opium. But your text form traffic must not be as good as video. When there is no new traffic inflow in this field, and as soon as capital retreats, the form of online novels is completely thrown into the historical garbage heap, becoming a history of the Internet that no one can remember. Capital naturally has to look for the next goal.
Taking short videos as an example, a few years ago there were video authors such as Ao Factory Director, and now you look at them, what are the things? Will these people have anything else but to be stubborn and hot spots?
Of course, these people will also follow the wind and turn to the next battlefield, yes, this group of people behaves like locusts. This should not be counted as I scolded them, because they have ruined countless fields, all of which are routines.
Now I'd rather write a nod article than a novel, not because I don't have the ability, but because the headline article still pays some attention to quality, and the reader picks the logical errors and factual errors in your articles. This shows that everyone is still concerned about your content, not the cool pull. This, on the Internet today, is too valuable.