I'd put down money that the meme's niche focus is why it's the only MCU kinkmeme that's lasted this long.
A couple of the more wankbaity anons in the other thread were claiming the HTP meme is ~dying~ and we need to ~broaden our horizons~ (presumably towards the fic they wish we'd write for them) if we're to have any hope of surviving. But if anything, it's the opposite. Our problem isn't not enough activity--we've got regular participants and a small but active core of fills. It's the relevant activity getting swamped in dubiously-related prompts from people who don't know or care what we're here for. Who knows where they're coming in from, but "the demise of all the other Marvel kinkmemes" seems like a plausible starting guess.
The idea being, I suppose, that it's now our patriotic duty to lube up and let the wankbait anons turn this meme into Avengerkink-but-with-Bucky's-name-substituted-for-Tony's. More than that, it's the only way to keep our meme alive!
Re: Popularity of an Idea =/= On Topic-ness of the Idea
A couple of the more wankbaity anons in the other thread were claiming the HTP meme is ~dying~ and we need to ~broaden our horizons~ (presumably towards the fic they wish we'd write for them) if we're to have any hope of surviving. But if anything, it's the opposite. Our problem isn't not enough activity--we've got regular participants and a small but active core of fills. It's the relevant activity getting
swamped in dubiously-related prompts from people who don't know or care what we're here for. Who knows where they're coming in from, but "the demise of all the other Marvel kinkmemes" seems like a plausible starting guess.
The idea being, I suppose, that it's now our patriotic duty to lube up and let the wankbait anons turn this meme into Avengerkink-but-with-Bucky's-name-substituted-for-Tony's. More than that, it's the only way to keep our meme alive!
It worked so well for Avengerkink, after all.