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Paywalled platforms and stories being harder to find nowadays
From: guest (213XA) , 17 months, post #1
So, this is more like to vent out, but maybe others are feeling like this as well: I have some peculiar interests, mostly involving body swap stories, like the ones from the late 90s and early 2000s on Fictionmania.

And I feel no one is writing those anymore. Truth be told, they probably are, and you oftentimes will even see some of those here and there on FM itself, but I think most of them you can't find. My theory, and someone commented that on another thread as well:

There was a shift on how content is produce nowadays, there wasn't a platform like Patreon back in the day, which would make easier for people to sell their content, also, maybe people didn't hope they would be paid for those stories, maybe there was less assumptions, the social and economic context was also other... Be that as it may, many writers nowadays publish their stories on some paywalled platform – which, to be clear, I'm not complaining, they have all the right to do whatever they prefer, they wrote it, it's theirs – but this has as a consequence the fact that it is much harder for one to randomly bump with a story or search for a particular set of keywords, sense the content is behind a paywall, you can't do that.

You can't go on patreon and say show me all stories that contain the tags "switch bodies" and "tights" – or whatever you are interested on, to eventually find an author you want to follow. So you end up having to first find that author somehow, know his work and then compromise and trust him enough to subscribe to him on a given platform, while back in the day you didn't have to compromise and you could wander around and end up bumping with something really interesting that you otherwise would never find.

Also, in general search on most sites suck be honest and even the sites that are open and where people can read TG stories without having to pay (such as deviantart, which do have some interests jams, if you really dig enough) these sites oftentimes don't offer full text search – and you oftentimes can't rely that Google will index all those pages either.

Honestly my hope is that those AIs capable of written text get better in the coming decades and start being able to write something really good, something that would be comparable to human writers, sorta like we have been seeing with images with Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. Although language models don't seem to be as good yet. I played a little bit with Open-AI language model, and it sorta is able to produce some interesting brief stories, but it oftentimes gets confused. Especially due to how many TG stories subvert reality expectations and social norms, therefore making it hard for the algorithm to get things quite right. There is a thread on that for those interested...
https://metamorphose.org/thread/show.htp?threadid=29675&page=-1&se0=thread&se1=show

Anyway, just venting out here.

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