Yes to all this. A friend of mine code stories for the app, and she tries to stick with ace stories, so nothing focuses on relationship, sx or any of that stuff (there’s already enough stories like that)
Stop normalizing sx for kids! Stop normalizing toxic relationships!
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Yes! Also Asexuals need mor representation. Same with Aromantics.
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Ikr! I hope so too that asexuals and aromantics get more representation on the app, many people aren’t aware of it even. But ofcourse in most of the trending romance stories the love interest is always like “aWe shE’s sOo hAWt i HavENt seEN aNyonE liKE heR bEfoRE i WaNnA mARry hEr wiTh a dOzEn oF cHildRen iN tHe eNd” even though he’s meeting the mc for the first time 
and don’t get me started with the detailed sexual description ffs. I really REALLY doubt this is an app for 12 year old kids!
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Episode has a weird thing going on where it’s 12+ and 18+ at the same time. 
They’re trying so hard to appeal to everyone. There are adults AND kids here, but adult material and kid material can’t be mixed on a 12+ app. Episode needs to make up its mind and enforce some rules.
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True! They even make so called guidelines regarding this but seem to break it themselves. It looks like only a selective amount of people are supposed to follow it and I’ve also heard rather small authors saying their story wasn’t approved as it goes against episode’s guidelines though it would be nothing major while I’ve seen far worse explicit stuff on popular romance stories even in the featured ones! I guess this is one of the biggest hypocrisy of episode.
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So true.
I hate when there is too much of a focus on the love interest. Makes me uncomfortable when the options are 1. Kiss them or 2. wait till they kiss you.
How about no…
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Right like lmfao
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I was going to respond to a few people here about some points I agreed with but there’s just too many that I just decided to toss in my own two cents.
Anyways, first off I’d like to say I am so glad I found a group that feels the same way I do about everything wrong with this app! It is very refreshing! So I must say thank you to you all 
!!!
Now down to the nitty gritty of my input:
I want to start off by saying. I’m 29, I’m as mature as I can be in this world. But that does NOT mean I want to read stories that include every inappropriate thing under the sun. Which I find disheartening because I prefer to read the community stories, as they are better written (for the most part) than the Episode original stories. I come across so many stories with such interesting and intriguing descriptions that it always hurts that I have to leave when I begin the story if it starts off with the “warning” splash. It makes shuffling through stories all the more tedious and irritating.
As so many others have mentioned a lot of these authors feel their characters have to constantly have to have intercourse to show how much they love each other. And if it’s not shown, it’s heavily described. And that is just terribly uncomfortable to read. It’s like a lot of these people forget who uses this app, either they forget or just don’t care.
And what really gets me mad is that there are people on the forums here that think that Episode should have more “mature” content just because they are “mature” now. Maturity does not mean intercourse, violence, substance abuse and so on is always involved. And if people think that’s what it means to be mature then that makes me question their thought process.
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Right. It’s the same with me. I’m 29, so I’m considered to be part of the “mature” audience, but a lot of these stories make me feel uncomfortable when reading them. It’s a lot of cringe worthy stuff there on the app. And the story covers just make it even worse.
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For sure! For the amount of s*x in Episode stories, they’re mostly not very mature stories. Everything feels surface level. There’s no depth to the plot or characters. It’s just so child-like. The adult stuff is just thrown in there, because there’s nothing else to be thrown in.
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I think most of the authors on the app are teens and/or young (and I mean young ) adults. They probably assume that’s what people in love do on a regular basis. I can’t speak for others adults but my life is pretty mundane to say the least.
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They think going to clubs, excessive drinking, sleeping around or explicit relations means maturity.
While some of those things are perks to being an adult, what really makes someone mature is growing past that sort of way of life mentally. Taking responsibility and using discernment when making serious (and possibly life altering) decisions. Or as the dictionary describes it…
Mature
adjective
adjective: *mature
having reached an advanced stage of mental or emotional development characteristic of an adult.
comparative adjective: maturer ; superlative adjective: maturest
“a young man mature beyond his years”
Similar:
sensible
responsible
adult
Being mature isn’t just a physical thing, it’s a mental thing as well.
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I completely agree!
I’m also an adult who doesn’t care for these supposedly “mature” stories that are just gratuitous, descriptive sex. That doesn’t appeal to me at all. I don’t write or nor do I like reading about it.
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Yeah I don’t write stuff like that either. I’m beyond that mentality, and I wish there were more stories that reflected that.
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I 100% agree.
Just yesterday I read a story where the MC’s “best friend” only started having feelings for her because she got a makeover and “got hot” (he’s one of two love interests) before then he didn’t even see her as a female and friendzoned her for years and in that same story the MC’s brother who was missing for 10 years because he was kidnapped by a cult, brainwashed by this cult, him going missing tore his family apart, caused MC an insane amount of pain so her brother is a victim who not only needs professional help due to a decade of physical and emotional abuse but also needs loving supportive people around him and guess what? instead of getting that and just letting him be the author of course pairs him up with the cult leader’s daughter, who has killed people, stalks people, obsesses over people, has kidnapped countless people and forced them into this cult, hurts people, is a psychopath, has physically assaulted and tried to kill MC on multiple occasions (she got obsessed with the best friend love interest and hates MC because she’s close to him), straight up enjoys seeing people suffer… now tell me that ain’t the most unhealthy 
you ever heard of? It’d be like the author having a best friend who just got out of a really abusive relationship and instead of getting them help and encouraging them to be around healthy loving supportive people they push them to get into a relationship with another abusive person 
Oh and it gets worse- the author tries so hard to get readers to care about that crazy bih and about them being together (oh yeah i’m tots happy that an emotionally damaged abused person gets paired up with a literal serial killer so happy that I totally didn’t drop the story after all that bs 
), remember how I said before that MC’s brother had been missing for 10 years? well instead of the author having him and MC reconnecting spending time together healing together getting their family back together we only get maybe one interaction of them together after he regains his memory but get countless interactions of him and the cray cray bih together (cause once again having him spend more time with a serial killer then with his ACTUAL SISTER who he hasn’t seen in a decade totally makes sense haha), when the MC’s brother finally remembers everything he beats the other love interest’s butt (not the best friend one the other one- who happens to be a secret agent who’s working undercover to bust this cult but MC’s brother thinks he’s actually a member) and gets mad that MC is not only sleeping with someone but is sleeping with someone from the cult (even though the dumbas literally just got done sucking face with that ugly psycho bih who’s IN THE CULT before confronting MC and the love interest)so we got hypocrites in the story too- oh and we have some more too haha MC is an undercover cop and went undercover with the best friend love interest and another side character and there’s a set of rules they have to follow but in reality only MC has to follow them everyone else can do whatever- BF love interest “You can’t have romantic interactions with anyone, stay professional!” five seconds later is hooking up with someone Side character after he catches MC kissing the other love interest: “I’ll cover for you this time MC but next time i’ll tell the boss, stay professional!” five seconds later hooks up with someone, falls in “love” with that someone even tho they literally only had sx and didn’t even utter one single word to each other so that’s totally realistic and later on wants MC to risk her life to make sure that chick is okay.
And that’s just one story that’s not even counting all the other toxic i’ve seen in total
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Woah…
xfchgvjbkn?!?!?!
That’s a lot. I’d be scared to look at the fanmail of that story. Episode needs to review the story and remove it asap.
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