So you guys remember the dumpster fire that was the wattys 2023 right?
Well they are still not allowing fanfic, poetry, short stories and some others into the contest and they have even decided to limit the contest to English, Spanish and Filipino language only. For fellow writers that do not write in any of those, it is yet another blow, as wattpad pretends to care for them or that it is because of legal reason that they cannot promote fanfic.
As I remember, they didn't have this problem in the past. So by their logic, all fanfic winners from past contests should be removed as well, seeing as they are still transgressions no? Also what does poetry and short stories have to do with this? I mean, I think we can all guess why wattpad corporate is continuing to do this and the answer is, they cannot profit from those genres or at least profit less from them, compared to other genres.
They are then surprised that people get angry, rightfully so, and always try to clap back with the same stale excuse. I honestly get why people are largely moving to a03 and similar websites. I mean what else do you expect to happen? Especially after taking away the DM feature.