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In which my mind is belatedly blown
Nov. 8th, 2013 01:34 amMy fic Cherrybomb has over 63,000 hits. Pack Up; Don't Stray has over 61,000.
I never went digging for hit counts on LJ, and I wouldn't really care if AO3 didn't automatically post them. On LJ, of course, I measured readership by comments, and while I knew there were plenty of lurkers about (I was one of them for a long, long time), I never stopped to wonder how many. And I try not to compare my hit counts to the kudos or to other authors' hit counts/kudos and am mostly successful, but it just now sort of hit me what the numbers mean. Obviously, not every hit represents a unique person who has read the fic all the way through, but let's say half of them are.
That's 30,000 people who have read something I wrote. Even if only a third of the hits represent individual readers, that's still over 20,000 people. That's a stadium full of people.
I wrote gay werewolf sex and a stadium full of people read it.
I should cross-stitch that on something so I can remember it on my bad days.
I never went digging for hit counts on LJ, and I wouldn't really care if AO3 didn't automatically post them. On LJ, of course, I measured readership by comments, and while I knew there were plenty of lurkers about (I was one of them for a long, long time), I never stopped to wonder how many. And I try not to compare my hit counts to the kudos or to other authors' hit counts/kudos and am mostly successful, but it just now sort of hit me what the numbers mean. Obviously, not every hit represents a unique person who has read the fic all the way through, but let's say half of them are.
That's 30,000 people who have read something I wrote. Even if only a third of the hits represent individual readers, that's still over 20,000 people. That's a stadium full of people.
I wrote gay werewolf sex and a stadium full of people read it.
I should cross-stitch that on something so I can remember it on my bad days.
