'How MKPC ruined the concept of trends'
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6102 pts ★ RacerOn 2024-08-24 at 01:18:58
No, this is not a topic to complain about the current state of the community because I promised I would not do that again - instead, it's my take on an ongoing situation that has started three years ago. I'll lock the topic once I'm done, that way it cannot start anything.
The concept of trends
I think pretty much everybody has already followed a trend in their life, including me. Going with the flow and doing what the majority is doing is the easiest way out, because when you decide to be daring and try to do something else than other people, you can be seen as a pick me or receive backlash for doing so. However, if nobody followed a trend, it would not be a trend...
How trends build themselves
Trends just appear out of the blue most of the time. They use something that has the potential to be popular and blow up on the Internet or in real life. They use something original so that it feels refreshing, without being too daring as well. It is pretty much a question of luck. Some people are popular, which mean they can set trends just by the blink of an eye. Others will try millions of times and will flop over and over again.
How to be original
When you want to participate in a trend, simply following the pattern will make it quite boring after a while. If you are one of the first to follow it, you can pass, but if you arrive after thousands of people have already done it, you have to make your take on the trend stand out. That is called a twist. Something that will make your take different than the others. And something that will make you stand out.
Trends on MKPC
The trends on MKPC take on a whole new level : it's either cool or simple concepts that start a "trend", or on the opposite, particularly daring actions that one member can do.
For example :
- Ask me Anything : This trend comes back almost every year since 2020-2021. The concept is really simple, it's a FAQ. And everybody wants to have one. But the truth is that after some time, some people only do one because it's the ongoing fashion, and that results in getting always the same questions such as "what is your favorite food?" For this "trend", there is almost no way to be original. People ask you questions and you answer. At some point, 9 of the 10 latest topics were AMAs. The fact with this trend though, is that it dies out pretty quickly. Even if no member complains or nitpicks (me), the topics will eventually become bland and will die after a short time.
- Fanfics : Making a fanfic is okay, but I have heard some people say that they made a competition-like fanfic just because everyone was doing it. That makes the fanfic bland, first and foremost, and then die, after two or three episodes.
- Bird sounds : Now that's a really annoying "trend", I cannot comprehend how it even became one. There's always someone with the freaky, 30-letter long username, but honestly. Why did everybody follow it ? It honestly is harmless, but come on. This is the example of a more daring trend. Nobody has to bring a twist, because it already is a lot, so everybody ends up doing complete garbage lmao
- Gradients : They have been here since forever. It was something that only pros of BBCode would use, but when everyone learnt about it, it kind of lost its charms. Especially when the bisexual gradient got plastered all over everything or when people used gradients as a way to hide the fact that they were posting the most random, irrelevant stuff ever.
How MKPC ruined trends
This summaries that the trends that seem to set on MKPC aren't ones you can bring a twist to : complexifying a FAQ would ruin it, creating a fanfic just has to be original or not in the first place, bird sounds are just random shit, and gradients are kind of tiring and look like the absolute same even if the colors used are different (sorry to break it to you but when it becomes a trend you're not really looking unique 😭) which means every time the trends are just gonna be random and annoying, or have everybody look like the same.
Invu out, outvu.
The concept of trends
I think pretty much everybody has already followed a trend in their life, including me. Going with the flow and doing what the majority is doing is the easiest way out, because when you decide to be daring and try to do something else than other people, you can be seen as a pick me or receive backlash for doing so. However, if nobody followed a trend, it would not be a trend...
How trends build themselves
Trends just appear out of the blue most of the time. They use something that has the potential to be popular and blow up on the Internet or in real life. They use something original so that it feels refreshing, without being too daring as well. It is pretty much a question of luck. Some people are popular, which mean they can set trends just by the blink of an eye. Others will try millions of times and will flop over and over again.
How to be original
When you want to participate in a trend, simply following the pattern will make it quite boring after a while. If you are one of the first to follow it, you can pass, but if you arrive after thousands of people have already done it, you have to make your take on the trend stand out. That is called a twist. Something that will make your take different than the others. And something that will make you stand out.
Trends on MKPC
The trends on MKPC take on a whole new level : it's either cool or simple concepts that start a "trend", or on the opposite, particularly daring actions that one member can do.
For example :
- Ask me Anything : This trend comes back almost every year since 2020-2021. The concept is really simple, it's a FAQ. And everybody wants to have one. But the truth is that after some time, some people only do one because it's the ongoing fashion, and that results in getting always the same questions such as "what is your favorite food?" For this "trend", there is almost no way to be original. People ask you questions and you answer. At some point, 9 of the 10 latest topics were AMAs. The fact with this trend though, is that it dies out pretty quickly. Even if no member complains or nitpicks (me), the topics will eventually become bland and will die after a short time.
- Fanfics : Making a fanfic is okay, but I have heard some people say that they made a competition-like fanfic just because everyone was doing it. That makes the fanfic bland, first and foremost, and then die, after two or three episodes.
- Bird sounds : Now that's a really annoying "trend", I cannot comprehend how it even became one. There's always someone with the freaky, 30-letter long username, but honestly. Why did everybody follow it ? It honestly is harmless, but come on. This is the example of a more daring trend. Nobody has to bring a twist, because it already is a lot, so everybody ends up doing complete garbage lmao
- Gradients : They have been here since forever. It was something that only pros of BBCode would use, but when everyone learnt about it, it kind of lost its charms. Especially when the bisexual gradient got plastered all over everything or when people used gradients as a way to hide the fact that they were posting the most random, irrelevant stuff ever.
How MKPC ruined trends
This summaries that the trends that seem to set on MKPC aren't ones you can bring a twist to : complexifying a FAQ would ruin it, creating a fanfic just has to be original or not in the first place, bird sounds are just random shit, and gradients are kind of tiring and look like the absolute same even if the colors used are different (sorry to break it to you but when it becomes a trend you're not really looking unique 😭) which means every time the trends are just gonna be random and annoying, or have everybody look like the same.
Invu out, outvu.
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