User blog comment:AlixeTiir/So here's a rant: Why are my least favourite pastas everyone's most favourite?/@comment-25226524-20150605212817

It could be any number of things. It could possibly lie in interpretation; they may see things you didn't intend and vice versa. Then there's just the matter of different tastes. Then there's the luck factor: you could take two stories that were almost identical, post them at the same time, and one could become a phenom while the other sits with zero comments. I think this is an incredibly common occurrence, but I'm sure people will be glad to see they're not alone in their similar thoughts.