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Check out the various fairies series by "Daisy Meadows" - there has to be at least a thousand of them. They mine a theme/set with a book for each element (the s

Check out the various fairies series by "Daisy Meadows" - there has to be at least a thousand of them. They mine a theme/set with a book for each element (the seasons, rainbow colors, precious gems, etc) and they follow the exact same plot for each one. My wife and I used to joke that "D.A.I.S.Y. M.E.A.D.O.W.S. has got to be a acronym for the computer program that writes them all.

derefr 8y ago
If I've learned one thing from YouTube, it's that there are definitely content creators whose brains are built in such a way that what they want out of life is to put tons of effort into building up a library of highly-structured and predictable content. (I'm not talking about the "putting pre-fabbed CG parts together to make a buck on infants" videos here; I'm talking about things like the infinite stream of nail-art tutorials, or things like SummoningSalt's timelines of speedrunning efforts of a particular game.) Such people could vary their formula—they're not doing this as work-for-hire with strict requirements under a producer, this is just the stuff they publish as a hobby. And you'd expect a "normal" person in such a situation to get bored and want to vary their formula, especially as they gain more followers. Most creators do, but these ones don't. They just keep on makin' what they're makin', to a strict standard that lets them continue to pump out a lot of it, rather than making each successive work more of a production than before. It's what they like doing. I'm not a psychiatrist, so I can't say for sure what's going on with such people (though I've heard the phrase "systematizing personality" before and it sounds applicable here.) But I can say for sure that such people certainly do exist.
lb1lf 8y ago
Barbara Cartland was one of the most prolific authors ever, with more than 700 novels to her name. According to Wikipedia, in total they sold in the ballpark of a billion copies. Then again, I guess it could be argued she basically wrote the same book more than 700 times.

derefr 8y ago

If I've learned one thing from YouTube, it's that there are definitely content creators whose brains are built in such a way that what they want out of life is to put tons of effort into building up a library of highly-structured and predictable content. (I'm not talking about the "putting pre-fabbed CG parts together to make a buck on infants" videos here; I'm talking about things like the infinite stream of nail-art tutorials, or things like SummoningSalt's timelines of speedrunning efforts of a particular game.) Such people could vary their formula—they're not doing this as work-for-hire with strict requirements under a producer, this is just the stuff they publish as a hobby. And you'd expect a "normal" person in such a situation to get bored and want to vary their formula, especially as they gain more followers. Most creators do, but these ones don't. They just keep on makin' what they're makin', to a strict standard that lets them continue to pump out a lot of it, rather than making each successive work more of a production than before. It's what they like doing. I'm not a psychiatrist, so I can't say for sure what's going on with such people (though I've heard the phrase "systematizing personality" before and it sounds applicable here.) But I can say for sure that such people certainly do exist.

lb1lf 8y ago

Barbara Cartland was one of the most prolific authors ever, with more than 700 novels to her name. According to Wikipedia, in total they sold in the ballpark of a billion copies. Then again, I guess it could be argued she basically wrote the same book more than 700 times.