User blog comment:EtherBot/Random Writer's Showcase: Jay Ten/@comment-25226524-20170110162104/@comment-25458443-20170110215420

In my experience, and I don't have a lot of it, I think people kind of get attracted to stories that feel familiar to some other common trope. "Creepypasta" has a niche and people feel at home reading stories that evoke a "Creepypasta" vibe. Most of your stories are kind of unconventional but TWIR is a diary pasta, people understand what makes a diary pasta tick and how it operates. So I think people read it because it's familiar and get surprised by how it's different, so it leaves a bigger impression on them than, say, The Brown Spot which is a bit weird the whole way through, and disconnected from the other mental associations of "Creepypasta". So idk I think that's why it's more popular, I'm not a social scientist though.

I remember you commenting on struggling with third person on Redundant Red as well, and I sort of don't see what you mean. To an extent, your third person stories are written in the form of first person but with different pronouns, but there's nothing sloppy in the writing and it feels personable. Of course, if you notice any flaws in your own work, keep striving to fix them even if some doofus like me didn't notice it personally.

Ah, I think I made that comment also but I didn't make the connection that the demon is both red and redundant. Clever.