"NSFW" isn't a genre and in fact, if your work features some NSFW elements, you're just about guaranteed to have a hard time in the platform. You'll be constantly reported and even if your work is still up, the staff will quietly never bother promoting your work on the front page no matter how wide an appeal your work might have. And chances are very low to be approved for Ad Sharing if your work has NSFW content.
Most creators just save the juicy, saucy, uncensored content for their Patreon instead.
As for the question...
just from observation, top performing genres are:
- Romance (including BL)
- Comedy
- Slice of Life / Drama
But obviously, they are extremely competitive genres, and unless you're promoted on the front page a few times, you'll never even reach the Top 10 (keep in mind, those genres are filled with content from a single popular creator so forget about even getting to top 3 spots in any of them lol)
My advice to you is consider matching your work to one (or two) of the new, very noncompetitive categories instead. You'll easily standout in these compared to the original genres.
- Heart-Warming
- Thriller
- Horror
- Post-Apocalyptic
- Zombies
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School (surprisingly not many assign this genre, most pick Drama or SOL instead)
- Supernatural
- Animals
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Crime/Mystery (wish they'd separate the two. Not all mysteries are crimes, lol!)
- Historical
- Informative
- Sports
- Inspirational
- All ages
As long as you update every other week, you'll easily make it to Top 3 in no time.