How Long Did It Take You To Gain A Significant Following...Or Not

@nostalgicroxas Veraca
Wed, 19 Jun 2019 16:57:52 +0000

@nostalgicroxas wrote:

"significant"? LOL that's not me at all. I've never been one to post for attention /followers/ views or anything, but that does effect my personal self-esteem and psyche.

I'm sure I have no followers on Ao3, since the only things that get attention are the 3 Noragami PWP smut works that I have up there. You'd think people would click to read more of your works and cross look, but they don't. If they click to read more, they click the fanfic tab for Noragami, even though they can see that the "original work" tab clearly has more entries (3 vs ~40). Some people just filter through stuff. Ao3's entry for NTN is just at 385 views across 36 chapters.
Booksie is the site where I have the most views on anything. I just took a peek on chapter 88 up there for my only active story, and it's at 28 views.
But my main site where I submit? dA has just 3 on the latest chapter, and I get the feeling they're all me just looking at it (1 when it's uploaded). NTN 88 on there has 11.
Here on Tapas, I have 20~40 subs (some cross sub different works but are the same person), but again the active readership is in the single digits [which is within the realm of error of accidental clicking, ect].

So I'd say overall my "readership" of actually alive people is closer to 10 across all sites I'm on. My main art dA has 235 people following it, but out of actual living people - probably closer to just 10 again -most works I post average 5-15 views. It's important to mention my art dA is 14 years old. My two writing dA's (switched from one to a second one after a few years because of username preferance back before you could change it), are 13 and 11yrs old.