Types of WattPad Users

Type #87

Type #87: The Graphic Groups

The biproduct of two cover makers coming together and deciding they are the shit and wanting a squad to match.

Now no tea no shade no nasty lemonade, but some times these things get  m e s s y.

Especially with applications and such and brutal fucking cover reviews.

Like sometimes the brutality is warranted and other times it's a bomb cover and they are like "I hate it!" and it's clearly fucking just personal preference and not even anything substantial.

Like honestly if you were to make a group as such you need to have a rubric for it otherwise you will get shut down soooooo quickly because of your bull shit.

And it's important to remember that:

Not everyone makes covers the same.

Like just cause your preference is seeing a model be bigger on the graphic doesn't mean that's how everyone else wants it.

Also the holes with it are this: sometimes the authors have specific criteria for what can and cannot be on the cover and different people handle that differently than others, and some people simply cannot take direction with their art.

But you know, do you honey boo, but if I see another dramatic clap back in my feed because someone in a cover shop over stepped their bounds I'm exposing like ugh.

Flaws

1. It's subjective. One person shouldn't be curating who should and shouldn't get in, multiple people should.

2. There is a line that has to be drawn between egotistical standards and actually good covers.

3. Like not all covers? Directly? Correlate? To the title?  Sometimes it's plot points?

4. Some people genuinely should not be judging these kinds of things and you should plan accordingly for that.

5. Different artists go for different collaging/models/apps for their covers. Like don't knock down phone editors because no shade, but some of them out here making better covers than y'all do over there with photoshop. 🐸☕️

Diagnostic

If you're making a group like get your shit together. Have a rubric, have a specific list of criteria, make it known what your looking for up front and not during the review process.

Yikes haven't updated this in a fat minute, love y'all and I doubt there will ever be a solid return to this cause after 50, your girl has been struggling to think of any, but you know, I'm going to try to update when inspo hits me for them.

~jess