There [i]does[/i] exist an over representation of certain genres among the roleplaying community here and while people [i]should[/i] be free to participate in what they enjoy, I am hardly pleased by the lack of original works. I am sure they are all well and good to those interested, these predominantly fandom series, but why not do something all one's own? In my opinion they snuff out creativity by garnering peoples' limited attention and availability. I have always been opposed to their dominance given the amount of frustration I have personally experienced when seeing some members of my target audience pulled aside and active into them rather than my works or those I subscribe to.

In a way they strike me as insincere, but even that much is not true and I know it. But what I do know is that anime, fandom and slice-of-life categories are significantly more common than many others.