this ravenous consumption without community is also why authors are leaving the fanbase lol you can only write so fast and create so much, and when people don’t care about you or your work outside of the speed they can consume it, it ends up draining your passion to write
We used to be a proper country where you could post about a fic concept and people would reply and you could bounce ideas off of each other and elaborate on plots. Now the replies of every fic concept I see are nothing but that obnoxious “you have link? give.” GIF