New Community: Kittens and Spitefic

[soc_puppet]

Spite can be an excellent motivator, but there aren't a lot of natural situations where you can prompt it to promote your preferred content. Nor is feeding the trolls ever a good idea. And just what are you going to do with all of the adorable pictures of cats and other animals you've been saving over the years?

Enter kittens_and_spitefic! The goal of this community is to prompt fan content by acting like a total troll and pretending to bash what you want to see up one side and down the other. Commenters then engage with the supposed "troll" by spamming them with cat (and other animal) macros and/or content that caters to everything the original poster professes to hate: Writing short (or long) fics in the comments, drawing the exact thing OP was ranting about, even sharing links to fic recs and meta/analysis posts. Roleplay getting one up on someone with bad opinions while creating more work for something you love, and discover new things you may be a fan of in the process!

Still not quite sure how it works? Check out this 18+ example post or this all ages example post!

Every month there will also be a prompt post open to the public, so people can get a better feel for the community before joining and to help show that it's still active. To celebrate the opening of the community, we're having two public posts to cover October and November! Check them out here: Hugging is overrated (SFW only) and No, they can't top (NSFW welcome), and make sure the OPs know exactly how wrong they are!

Comments

[sabotabby]

Ahahah that looks like a delight!

[soc_puppet]

There was a community on LJ that did pretty much the same thing, but it was restricted to smut as responses; I always had a blast there, and had been missing it something fierce lately! Anyway, the comm over there hasn't had a post in over ten years, and I wasn't able to contact the owner, so I figured I was in the clear to start my own version over here 👍 I hope you have fun if you stop by!

[sabotabby]

Oh, I joined. I'm barely on the periphery of fandom these days but it looks like good things are happening there.

[soc_puppet]

Lol, I've been stealth-watching the comm all day at work 😂 I'm so excited! I told myself when I got it started to keep my expectations in check, that I'd be satisfied if there was one post a month that wasn't by me, but there have been three already! I'm sure it'll slow down a little as time goes by, but if it keeps even slightly active, I'll be overjoyed ♥

[xmarksthespotwhereistand]

Such a fun idea! On my way to join (and maybe some leave some unprompted :wink: messages about short people topping).

[soc_puppet]

Excellent 😁 Glad to have you aboard! (What, no, how "dare" you! (:wink wink wink:))