500 kudos is low? bro, that's wild. I read fics with like 2 kudos and i'm kudos number 3 bc they are amazing. i do not trust the opinion of the masses. kudos tell me nothing about whether i will like a fic. Summary and tags are all I need.
this is so true. some of my favourite fics have less than 1k kudos (some less than 500) and a lot of people won't give them a chance just because they see the "low" number and think it's not worth it.