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Eh? Comics are stories. I love reading books, so much, and never found it fatiguing? By easier to draw, do you mean "a picture is worth a thousand words"? Like it's easier to convey meaning in pictures? Maybe, but I love long books, short stories and comics too.
If you want a great story, here is one for your group
https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-fiddler-of-bayou-teche/
Pictures are fun to look at. Also, one picture can tell you things that 10 sentences cannot.
I would personally prefer a short comic (4-frames) than a short paragraph. But it also depends on the context and quality of the writing. Idk.
This is what I imagine asklemmy posts would have looked like in the 1950s.
There are so many levels one could answer at. First off, we don't want every community to exist on lemmy.world. Just because it doesn't exist there doesn't mean you need to make it. Second, I consider graphic novels/comics/manga to be just as out of fashion as books these days. AFAIK kids barely read at all anymore. Third, I consider drawing much harder than writing, but that's a personal thing. Heck, both are trivially generated by AI these days, so the idea of having a superiority complex about one seems silly to me. Artists should stick together. In the same medium, if they want to.
If you don't like seeing visual art next to written art, that's a personal preference. I don't think it says anything about the state of people's brains that one community is larger than another, if anything, visuals are probably just easier to market in a world with a LOT of "content" going around. But at the end of the day, there just aren't a whole lotta people using Lemmy. So I'm not surprised when you say a specific community doesn't have a lot of activity. It could be that people interested in stories just have more established communities on [competing sites].
There are so many levels one could answer at. First off, we don’t want every community to exist on lemmy.world. Just because it doesn’t exist there doesn’t mean you need to make it. Second, I consider graphic novels/comics/manga to be just as out of fashion as books these days. AFAIK kids barely read at all anymore. Third, I consider drawing much harder than writing, but that’s a personal thing. Heck, both are trivially generated by AI these days, so the idea of having a superiority complex about one seems silly to me. Artists should stick together. In the same medium, if they want to.
I don't know why you decided that this is a superiority complex, I created this community as a place where people can express themselves in the old way, because I believe that such stories have something unique, because they can be not just stories, but something can unite people, since the feelings of the author can be understood through the text, which can then grow into communication, and then perhaps into something more.
If you don’t like seeing visual art next to written art, that’s a personal preference. I don’t think it says anything about the state of people’s brains that one community is larger than another, if anything, visuals are probably just easier to market in a world with a LOT of “content” going around. But at the end of the day, there just aren’t a whole lotta people using Lemmy. So I’m not surprised when you say a specific community doesn’t have a lot of activity. It could be that people interested in stories just have more established communities on [competing sites].
That's not the point: I like these comics, but I also like to read stories that I didn't find here, and I don't trust other places because there's no way to know if an AI story is created or not.
I don't know why you decided that this is a superiority complex
It is entirely possible you didn't intend for it to sound like you believe writing is superior in some way to drawing.
I don't trust other places because there's no way to know if an AI story is created or not.
To be clear, there's no way to know that here either. I'm not saying go to those other communities, I'm just answering the question about where everyone is.
To be clear, there’s no way to know that here either. I’m not saying go to those other communities, I’m just answering the question about where everyone is.
Yes, it's a serious problem, I don't even know if there have ever been jokes like, look, this comic was definitely made by an American, but no, I found out that everything was done by a Chinese, and this American passed this work off as his... It's terrible, why did it happen?
And the situation with AI reminds me of such cases of injustice.
IDK about the "kids barely read at all anymore" part. I'm reading a lot (though mostly web novels) and it's not been that long since I've been a kid
And do you believe that you are representative of what most kids these days do in their free time?
I think a lot of amateur writers feel more comfortable with a prompt or an established theme for the community to get started with. It's part of why WritingPrompts, HFY, and HumansAreSpaceOrcs were pretty popular on reddit. After that, I imagine it's just like any online community, a matter of promoting it to people and getting splintered tiny communities to band together in one place.
It looks like your community is pretty general theme-wise, have you considered maybe a "theme of the week" post, or a sticky where people can dump prompts for someone to pick up and run with?
It looks like your community is pretty general theme-wise, have you considered maybe a “theme of the week” post, or a sticky where people can dump prompts for someone to pick up and run with?
Yes, I think it would be possible to organize themes for the week, for example, fantasy with an unusual main character, if that's what you had in mind.
Do you have a link to your community? I would be interested
https://lemmy.world/c/ShareYourMiniStory
I'm not sure you'll be satisfied with an almost zero asset, but okay.