The Big Rant Book

wattpad people

By the title 'wattpad people' I do not mean the people who created Wattpad, I mean the people on Wattpad. Like you or me, unless YOU, the reader, are either Allen Lau or Ivan Yuen. Then you would be both.

I'm confusing myself a bit here. I should change the title to something not so vague.

I would change the title, actually, but since it is my duty to be lazy I shall not.

OH, THE POWER OF LAZINESS.

Let the real rant begin.

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I have learned a lot about people on Wattpad in my two months or so being on here. There are practically the same types of people here as on any other social media site. 

... I'm gonna make a list of 'em.

no.1 - the normal dude/dudette

Your average Joe or plain Jane. Spends time on Wattpad reading, scrolling, commenting, voting and occasionally uploading or writing. Nothing special. I am one of these.

May not sound like much, but compared to the other people I see here, they seem like gods. Goddesses. You know what I mean.

But there's nothing wrong with being average, right? 

no.2 - the reader seeker

I see SO MANY of these people on Wattpad. They go onto some famous renowned writer's message board and be like: "Oh, read this!" 

I mean, there's nothing wrong with asking an author for reads, but if the ONLY reason for you posting a message on their board is for that, and not to actually comment on one of their stories, then... ugh.

But anyway there are so many types of these people that I can't even begin to start. 

So.

There are the straight-to-the-point ones: "Could you please read this? I would really appreciate it!"

There are the complimenting ones: "Oh, you're such a good writer! Could you possibly read one of my stories? I know my writing's not that good, compared to some of your epicness, but could you give it a try? I love your work! It's the best! You're the best! You're so talented! Thanks for even reading this comment! ilysm!"

There are the read for read ones: "Read for read? I read yours, can you read mine?"

And there are the ones that never get to the point: "Oh, hi, ____, I just read your story and I loved it! Especially the part where they got together, I mean I shipped them since the beginning! Frank and Alice for the win! You're such an awesome writer, I wish I could write just like you! Do you think you could read one of my stories? And vote and give feedback? If you do, thank you so so SO much!"

In the end, all they want the writer to do is to read their work, never mind how they phrase it.

It's self-promotion, people.

bah. humans.

no.3 - the grammar nazi

Grammar nazis are a n n o y i n g. 

In literally EVERY story I read there is always that one person that goes:

that's you're not your

you meant feet, not foot

isn't whom what you mean, not who? I mean, according to the forty-fifth edition of the Oxford Cambridge Harvard Dictionary...

It doesn't matter.

NO ONE CARES.

If everyone can read the story and understand it perfectly well, why do you have to make a LONG LIST OF GRAMMAR CORRECTIONS about every single grammatical imperfection there is?!

Sheesh.

no.4 - the hater

Dere always be dem haters.

Well, I don't know, but does anyone know what make haters HATE so much?! There is like NOTHING in it for them.

Is there some undercover hate website that gives people a dollar for each time they post some mean comment?

Maybe there is, but probably...

Nah.

But seriously, what makes haters hate so much? If anything, they'll just hurt the author's feelings and maybe start a revolution while they're doing it.

I don't get them, the haters.

But as Taylor Swift has ever so famously said, haters gonna hate hate hate hate hate. 

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A/N - Yay, second rant done! Don't forget to comment and VOTE if you liked it!

~TheMysteriousTacoCat

p.s - I did not include types of wattpad writers on here; that'll be the subject for a rant for some other time.