Dec
15th
2019
Lol · 5:17am Dec 15th, 2019
I get why the poem has less views than the following chapter. Some people weren't interested and skipped. But chapter 2 having more views than the prologue? Not really sure why one would skip a crucial part of the story...so either its a glitch or its not.
Either way I find it very funny for some reason. Mostly cause it doesn't make any sense and nonsensical things are one of the things I find most humorous.
Enjoy this random post, mostly for my benefit.
How does it benefit me?
Good question. A question only I am probably asking.
It just does somehow. Idk how
You know I felt like this post was going somewhere. Pretty sure it didn't get there tho. Oh well
The reason why it has less views is because it's labeled prologue. Usually the prologue takes place before the story actually starts and some people skip that bit. Think of a prologue like an optional introduction. My story, Bizarro am not in Equestria, has a prologue that has less views than chapter one because it's the set up. Everyone who knows Bizarro and how comic con Displacments go just skipped that bit to get to the meat of the story. When you labeled that prologue instead of chapter one, you gave the impression that it was optional. Not to mention that some people like to skip all of the set up and jump straight into the meat of the story. Also, FimFic counts views that stack. Like, say for example I liked your poem chapter. If I read it three times that would be three additional views. Not many people read a prologue more than once so views on that won't really stack.
Ah I see. Thanks. I did not know that. The first half is optional, the second half actual contains stuff that will be used later, tho it is presented in a way that makes it seem unnecessary and similar to the first half.
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Now I think about the second half is technically also skipable as any things relating to it later will be explained anyway. Alright, well with that knowledge it makes my post without any point, even in humor, so I'm gonna delete it tomorrow. Thank you for your response. I always understood the style of a prologue, but I never even considered that the style and presentation allowed skipablity, because I would never dream of skipping any part of a story. But that's just a personality preference that is so natural to me I didn't even think that it might not be natural for others. But now that you point it out blatantly obvious that prologue skipablity is a preference, a concept that although simple and understandable is not one I had considered before.