User blog comment:Cornconic/Why are Ritual Pastas still a thing?/@comment-36627132-20200122231023

I'm glad someone agrees with me.

Like you said they are little else than wormholes that new authors can crawl through because of how little effort is required to go into them. Not only are the similar to lost episodes and haunted video games in that way, but they are also mostly unoriginal and blend together. If you've read one, you've read them all.

To an extent they can be considered spin-offs because they use the same instructions formatting as the Holder series.

Most of them are outright terrible because, as we've already established, little effort goes into them.

"[B]ut it seems very unlikely that the genre is going to undertake its own Renaissance anytime soon." seeing as the fandom has been receeding for some time, I have to agree with this. I think it's been like two years since the last good one was written.