What is the deal with oc centric hate

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I don’t understand why people hate oc centric fics so much. First you hate it when people change the canon characters too much but then when people make their ocs with these traits instead, you hate them too. The amount of times I’ve been told I made a “self insert” oc because my oc just has classic tropes placed in them is fucking insane. What’s the POINT of being a hater just because you yourself don’t understand how fanfic works.

OP ocs can work splendidly if you know how to deal with it. Look at Mob Psycho 100. Mob is OP as fuck but his struggles rely on him trying to be a normal child. Even if these aren’t the struggles of the oc, what is the point of bashing on “OPness” as if the character itself isn’t fleshed out. I just want to know what the point is here. If the character is actually terrible then that makes sense but fandom seems to see powerful abilities, tragic backstory, and bad things happening as the oc being some Mary or Gary sue.

EDIT: it’s come to my attention that everyone just kinda thinks I’m asking why people don’t read the fics. I’m mainly asking why is it so normalized to hate oc fics and OCs in general. Why are there books and threads and everything under the sun that bash on writers who create ocs as if it’s the end of the world and why does every oc get considered a “self insert” when they’re just a character made for the media? What’s with the HATE that I see crop up in so many spaces on oc’s

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spacestarsss

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I mean, I don’t even get feedback so I don’t even know that. If people didn’t like it, at the very least they’d leave a hate comment or two. I just think it’s weird that the first think you say is that my writing sucks and my characters are bad instead of “maybe people don’t like it” that was your second assumption. Your first one was that I can’t write at all.

ias_87

You have already left kudos here. :)

No, my first assumption was that you've had some trolls in your fic comments. But then I saw all your comments on this post and then in this thread specifically and asked myself whether this isn't just a skill issue.

But for all I know you're just bad at tagging. That's ALSO a thing that people can be bad at, and then people won't find your fic, and the ones who do are just going to be mad because it didn't have what they expected to find from reading the tags.

And no, actually, people are often, and frequently, told not to give feedback in comments, unless specifically asked. And MANY people aren't going to finish reading a fic or chapter they don't like the writing of, they're not going to take time out of their day to give you feedback on a fic they didn't like.

spacestarsss

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Your first assumption, to me, was “maybe your characters suck and you’re bad at writing” so sorry if I didn’t react as good as you had hoped when you basically go “you probably suck” and call it tough love.

Idk, people say there’s different ways to tag and to be short with it or long enough that people know what to look for. 🤷🏾‍♂️ I have no idea how my tags are.

I ask for feedback all the time in the notes. The only thing that goes up on this fanfic are the hits which aren’t really an indication of, well, anything. You say there’s so much oc praise, maybe in other fandoms, im not sure. The MHA fandom is picky enough as is so idk where most people are getting their praise from. (Probably a discord server that actually enjoys the writing as opposed to spitting it out into the void of Ao3 and hoping for the best like I’m doing).

At the very least, I don’t think it’s fair that the first thing you do say to me (and not just think your head), is that I’m a sucky writer when like, you don’t know how I writes. You could have said it’s the fandom I’m in, or the tags like your second paragraph. I just don’t see how the skill issue is a thing when you don’t know how I write in general. That’s like telling an artist they draw like a toddler when they complain about being ignored without ever asking to see their work and just thinking, “well maybe they’re just a bad artist.”

ias_87

You have already left kudos here. :)

It's totally fine by me if you'd rather believe in one of the many other reasons people have told you for why people don’t read OC centric fics, if you think those are more likely, but you’re not really listening to what people are telling you in the comments, so what’s left?