How do you know that the prompts were posted by a bunch of different people who had been here forever? LOL. I find it REALLY interesting that more than a dozen new prompts all in the very specific non-sexual body horror vein were all posted within the space of a day when for months there's maybe been one or two new prompts a day, if any at all. It was like a tsunami wave after the barest trickle. So yeah, it feels a lot more likely that a few newbies inundated the thread with the HTP-adjacent prompts rather than a bunch of old hat HTPers all got to jonesing for some straight-up body horror at exactly the same time. Just saying.
Regardless, it's clearly about the sudden volume of prompts with this theme and I'm not sure why that's so hard to understand.
Re: Popularity of an Idea =/= On Topic-ness of the Idea
How do you know that the prompts were posted by a bunch of different people who had been here forever? LOL. I find it REALLY interesting that more than a dozen new prompts all in the very specific non-sexual body horror vein were all posted within the space of a day when for months there's maybe been one or two new prompts a day, if any at all. It was like a tsunami wave after the barest trickle. So yeah, it feels a lot more likely that a few newbies inundated the thread with the HTP-adjacent prompts rather than a bunch of old hat HTPers all got to jonesing for some straight-up body horror at exactly the same time. Just saying.
Regardless, it's clearly about the sudden volume of prompts with this theme and I'm not sure why that's so hard to understand.