That writing prompt about the talking cat felt way too forced

I saw a prompt on here yesterday where someone wanted a story about a cat that gives financial advice... come on, that's just silly. It had 80 upvotes before I even clicked it. Why do we keep upvoting gimmick prompts over ones that actually let you explore real emotions or characters? Can we agree to stop rewarding the lazy stuff and push for deeper ideas instead?

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val_shah11d ago

Rolled my eyes so hard when I saw that cat prompt trending. It's like people forgot you can write about actual cat behavior that's funny without turning the cat into a stockbroker. Some of the prompts getting upvoted lately look like they were written by a 12 year old who just discovered fantasy genres. But hey, at least the cat prompt had a talking animal, that's a step up from the "your phone charger is secretly a dragon" prompts we saw last month.

eva_moore10d agoMost Upvoted

Guess we should all just give up and upvote "your toaster is secretly a wizard" prompts next.

torres.blair10d ago

And honestly, I think we're just scratching the SURFACE here. Next week I'm expecting to see "Your Ficus is Actually a Sith Lord" or "The Hamster in Your Office Is Running a Secret Spy Network." It's like every mundane object HAS to be secretly magical or plotting something now. I miss when prompts were just about a character or a situation that felt GROUNDED, you know? Not everything needs a fantasy twist to be interesting.