Things In Episode Stories People HATE

overly romantic

unbelievable romances

shakespeare narrations

overly dramatic

when everything about the MC is explained in the first chapter

The MC meeting the LI at a bar/club.

good plots ruined by senseless drama and pregnancy whether it be the MC or the LI’s ex
more than one Love interest

overly perfect MC

one sided MC’s

perfect LI

bad grammar

teens that have the life of adults

cliche plots, need I say more?

spoilers, when the future is the first scene of the very first chapter

overly predictable scenes and plots

when it’s all too convenient and coincidence. Let me explain, ever read a fantasy story where the MC is human and everyone is a mythical creature, then at the last second it’s revealed she’s the most powerful creature in the whole realm. When the MC is just a regular person but her lineage ends up proving she’s from the richest family or she’s royalty.

bad directing, I understand when you’re first starting out but how could you not go back and fix it?

shady best friends

best friends who can’t respect the MC’s choices

boring, overly drawn out plots

Double standards

LI leaves ex for the MC, Things are going great, LI’s ex shows up pregnant MC freaks out and leaves LI

The LI is just a nice guy but the MC is so rude to him and for half the story wont give him a chance

The MC and the LI like each other, but the don’t get together till the last episode, I’ve seen this too many times and have given up

MC and LI getting together and claiming they love each other after knowing each other for a couple of days

MC and LI like each other but the MC for the whole episode is like “no I can’t” then gets shocked when after 20 episodes the LI looses interest

CHEATING

This is for stories with multiple love interest:
The author makes the MC kiss, or go on a date with a LI, even if you have 0 points with them. For the whole story I could only be choosing one LI, and the author writes it like the other LI’s are still madly in love with the MC and want to be with her

MC is upset, best friend drags her to a party

Where all the teens are borderline alcoholics, I get it, for most of the world the legal drinking age is 18, but these teens are normally not 18, the story is set in the U.S. and they’re constantly drinking that worries me about what it’s telling the young people on here

The MC has trust issues because her awful dad left when she was little. Can we stop with the father’s leaving and being assholes? Some of us have awful mothers and amazing dads

Misunderstanding between the LI and his ex or a mean girl that the MC witnesses, and she won’t even let him explain himself or even get 2 words out

Double standards, the MC is allowed to flirt all they want with others, play hard to get with the LI, ignore them, but when the LI does it, forget about it, or it’s wrong when the male LI kisses the MC to make her stop talking (which it is wrong) but it’s viewed as sexy when the roles are reversed

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Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! I stopped reading stories with multiple LI’s because of this reason

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I agree on this, I have multiple love interest, and thats why I made the romance actions a choice,

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This always confuses me because especially with people I know it goes like this:
Bye!
Bye!
Bye
Bye
Bye
Bye
Then I quickly hang up because I’m done saying bye :joy:

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Meaningless/robotic dialog!!
Istg, most of the stories I’ve read make the characters sound like they are robots. It annoys the hell out of me!

For example:
Boss: Can you do x y z?
Employee: OK.
(Literally nobody talks like this)

Instead of:
Boss: Can you do x y z?
Employee: Of course! I’m right on it, boss.

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Ain’t that the truth

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Yes. THIS! Like you said, if it’s a canon relationship with only one love interest, then it’s perfectly fine because we get to see the relationship develop. HOWEVER, if the readers get to choose the love interest, and they make the MC be unfaithful to the LI that the readers chose by kissing or flirting with someone that I MADE THE CHOICE TO REJECT, then that is a huge turnoff for me. Especially since I hate any type of story that glorifies cheating.

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I just hate cliffhangers and after that they “quit” :sob:

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so basically every story on episode? lol…also i actually like Galactic Game😅

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LMAO i’m ngl the way y’all responding on here is just like y’all hate every story on episode :rofl: , i don’t judge tho :yawning_face: but quick question if y’all hate all of this stuff why are y’all still on here? (not tryna be mean or rude lol). I mean some of y’all have good & relatable answers such as punctuation & long intros & outros & etc, but like the stuff within the story & the storyline…why do you care so much? i mean it’s not your story if you don’t like it just find another one instead of talking about how you hate it yk? maybe it’s cus i’m just a really nonchalant person so idrc about this stuff but just some genuine questions i have…(feel free to answer if you want but you don’t have to)

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I hate that the love interest is a psychopath and the MC still loves them (mafia men, bad boys, criminals, etc.)
Ex. Aftertaste LI named Arlo Honey (love the story hate the character), Also I hate that he gets away not getting punished in the ending, But hey, It’s just a story. (Sometimes I wanna punch Arlo)

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you know what, whoever does any of those, they are just immature people! They should grow up yeah! These items are just too overrated that the Episode keeps on giving favors! Well, Episode members, you should also keep reviewing every story better next time because some of the other stories are just rubbish!

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I have seen this in many stories :sob: :sob:

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I also hate that when the MC loves the LI because he looks hot, like b!tch do you not care he has a bad attitude, k!lls people, or do any bad things. like girl- you just love them based on their looks and not their personality. Authors who do this needs to do better. (I think sometimes stories like this influence younger audience to do this, which is a big NO.)

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Honestly, its hard to find stories with no toxic drama these days. all i want is a drama-free peaceful story with no over-dramatic MC that acts like crusty y/n who always stutters and no self-centered, toxic love interest. and i found peaceful stories to read now, im getting away from the toxic side now.

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Yes! I’d also love to see more stories when they’re not immediately into each other. That’d be so cute ^^

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YES! I love seeing them grow in the process and not immediately fall in love in first sight. Now that is cute uwu

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I hate dramatic characters in episode stories. Like when a character faints a million times in one scene. I get it’s for comedic purposes, but they should tone it down a little

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Why do when authors write innocent characters why do they give them a y/n vibe they always stutters, is over-sensitive, over-dramatic and when they make a mistake they try to twist it like it was an accident and tries to blame the other character. One character that gives off typical musty y/n vibe is Luna from Stay the Night (no hate tho, the story is great)

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And also, when they (some, not generalizing) write bad girl stories the MC always has tan skin, big red lips, generic eyes, diamond faced shape, silky dark hair and weird eye colors. where is the creativity? its just my opinion on typical mafia/wolf alpha stories which i sometimes see. no hate i like the stories but then again this thread talks about things i hate seeing on episode but yeah, and dont get me started on some of the roasts cause hunny them roasts are so dry its drier than my grannys c00ch13.

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