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YCH stories: A tale of woof and woe
11 years ago
Hey everybody, it's your ole pal the Lunatic with yet another topic I want to weigh in on.
Today we're going to talk about an idea someone had, the "Your Character Here" story. You may be asking me 'what is a YCH story?'
The concept is about what one would think of as a YCH piece of artwork: A template is made out, and in key areas certain things are changed to fit and suit your needs. You basically 'buy' the position, and then your character is inserted into the artwork.
The same idea is now being applied to stories: Write out a basic story, take some new words such as character name, description, etc, and tailor the story to suit their needs/desires.
woofwoofwoof wrote up a journal yesterday, to try and see if there was an interest in such things, as can be seen here: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5792717/
Oh, wait...I'm sorry, no it can't! Why? Because WoofWoofWoof deleted it!
...why did Woofwoofwoof delete it? Because it cast Woofwoofwoof in a really bad light, that's why!
How did it do that? Because...well, let me just show you, instead. Yes, luckily I managed to have the journal up on my Firefox, and I took screenshots.
The journal itself isn't even that bad, it's when we start getting into the comments...
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u....._journal01.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u....._journal02.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u....._journal03.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u....._journal04.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u....._journal05.png
See, you have an inherent problem with the YCH story: People already don't feel like they're getting something unique, despite it being tailored at spots. Which means that adding on additional costs (such as doubling the cost just for your character due to it having some 'not normal' designs about it), feels kind of absurd. If the story is already written, and small parts are being made to custom fit you, why are you getting charged that?
But that isn't why I'm mentioning this. Look at how he responds to people, look at how he TREATS THEM.
He treats them like DIRT. Scratch that, dirt gets more respect here than his clientele is here.
For a guy who is supposedly attempting something to appeal to a wider audience, he is doing a bang-up job of making sure he doesn't HAVE that wider audience. He insults and belittles, and then he blocks you so you can't even actually have a conversation with him back (As I've mentioned to others, he blocked me 'cause I got snarky with him after he got snarky with me since I didn't agree with his view of Minecraft. Yeah.)
Plus, on top of that, he goes ELSEWHERE on here to continue fighting with people over it, like so: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5793181/
So yeah, his customer relations? Really awful. Like, the absolute pits.
If woofwoofwoof wants to attempt this idea, more power to him. But his journal isn't transparent enough to really allow folks to see WHY their prices are jumping up so much (and 30 dollars is a 200% increase from the base of 10 bucks. That is an absurd increase), and then him verbally insulting and abrasive and abusive manner is garbage.
The fact he deleted it is just him trying to cover up the horrible mistakes he made, and I refuse to let him do that. (In fact, this isn't the only other time he's attempted to do this; http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/2612656/ for yet ANOTHER incident with woofwoofwoof).
It's ridiculous that he thinks he can treat people like this yet still have a fanbase. Especially over stories that are already being crafted, and will continue to be repackaged for others.
If you guys really want a story written...there are other, better story writers who aren't going to charge you a shit ton of cash. Why not do some searching, find some folks who you really like, and hire them?
On top of everything? He's actually blocked
Milkjunkie and 
Echoen from being able to respond to him. I'm not surprised, it seems any time anyone has a dissenting opinion from his own, he just insults them and then gags them to think that is SOMEHOW going to help the problem. It doesn't.
Not to mention, at the moment woofwoofwoof is offering 3 people free YCH stories....only, one of them is his boyfriend.
Now, look, if he wants to do stuff for his significant other, that's entirely up to him. That is HIS CHOICE. But when you are offering something like this to people, to show the kind of work you can do, it might be better to pick someone else. Because really, you need to show you can have growth OUTSIDE of the norm, and handle it well.
But really, nothing about this tells me that he can handle that well, if he can't handle anyone saying 'umm...I'm not gonna pay that!'
Today we're going to talk about an idea someone had, the "Your Character Here" story. You may be asking me 'what is a YCH story?'
The concept is about what one would think of as a YCH piece of artwork: A template is made out, and in key areas certain things are changed to fit and suit your needs. You basically 'buy' the position, and then your character is inserted into the artwork.
The same idea is now being applied to stories: Write out a basic story, take some new words such as character name, description, etc, and tailor the story to suit their needs/desires.
woofwoofwoof wrote up a journal yesterday, to try and see if there was an interest in such things, as can be seen here: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5792717/Oh, wait...I'm sorry, no it can't! Why? Because WoofWoofWoof deleted it!
...why did Woofwoofwoof delete it? Because it cast Woofwoofwoof in a really bad light, that's why!
How did it do that? Because...well, let me just show you, instead. Yes, luckily I managed to have the journal up on my Firefox, and I took screenshots.
The journal itself isn't even that bad, it's when we start getting into the comments...
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u....._journal01.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u....._journal02.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u....._journal03.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u....._journal04.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u....._journal05.png
See, you have an inherent problem with the YCH story: People already don't feel like they're getting something unique, despite it being tailored at spots. Which means that adding on additional costs (such as doubling the cost just for your character due to it having some 'not normal' designs about it), feels kind of absurd. If the story is already written, and small parts are being made to custom fit you, why are you getting charged that?
But that isn't why I'm mentioning this. Look at how he responds to people, look at how he TREATS THEM.
He treats them like DIRT. Scratch that, dirt gets more respect here than his clientele is here.
For a guy who is supposedly attempting something to appeal to a wider audience, he is doing a bang-up job of making sure he doesn't HAVE that wider audience. He insults and belittles, and then he blocks you so you can't even actually have a conversation with him back (As I've mentioned to others, he blocked me 'cause I got snarky with him after he got snarky with me since I didn't agree with his view of Minecraft. Yeah.)
Plus, on top of that, he goes ELSEWHERE on here to continue fighting with people over it, like so: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5793181/
So yeah, his customer relations? Really awful. Like, the absolute pits.
If woofwoofwoof wants to attempt this idea, more power to him. But his journal isn't transparent enough to really allow folks to see WHY their prices are jumping up so much (and 30 dollars is a 200% increase from the base of 10 bucks. That is an absurd increase), and then him verbally insulting and abrasive and abusive manner is garbage.
The fact he deleted it is just him trying to cover up the horrible mistakes he made, and I refuse to let him do that. (In fact, this isn't the only other time he's attempted to do this; http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/2612656/ for yet ANOTHER incident with woofwoofwoof).
It's ridiculous that he thinks he can treat people like this yet still have a fanbase. Especially over stories that are already being crafted, and will continue to be repackaged for others.
If you guys really want a story written...there are other, better story writers who aren't going to charge you a shit ton of cash. Why not do some searching, find some folks who you really like, and hire them?
On top of everything? He's actually blocked
Milkjunkie and 
Echoen from being able to respond to him. I'm not surprised, it seems any time anyone has a dissenting opinion from his own, he just insults them and then gags them to think that is SOMEHOW going to help the problem. It doesn't.Not to mention, at the moment woofwoofwoof is offering 3 people free YCH stories....only, one of them is his boyfriend.
Now, look, if he wants to do stuff for his significant other, that's entirely up to him. That is HIS CHOICE. But when you are offering something like this to people, to show the kind of work you can do, it might be better to pick someone else. Because really, you need to show you can have growth OUTSIDE of the norm, and handle it well.
But really, nothing about this tells me that he can handle that well, if he can't handle anyone saying 'umm...I'm not gonna pay that!'
Echoen
~echoen
It would be hilarious to write a story but every time someone gets described, we replace it with "[YCH]"
Echoen
~echoen
[YCH] moaned as [personal pronoun] squirmed atop the [furniture], panting as [personal pronoun] slathered the warm goo across [personal pronoun]'s body. It soaked into the [species], sending electric tingles through [personal pronoun]'s [dermal layer]. It would only be a matter of time, [YCH] thought, before the transformation would begin...
ravecrow23-a
~ravecrow23-a
It sounds like someone's being a dick..I don't like dicks...
Freehaven
~freehaven
Y’know, not that I either agree or disagree with you, but ain’t these kinds of journals against FA rules?
