>In 2020, if you put the effort into making something, you would get a big wave of replies saying "WIN", "HOLY SHIT I LOL'D", "POSTING IN AN EPIC THREAD", etc. - it made all the effort of producing the OC worth it
>I'm sure users today are still appreciating or LOLing at things being posted, but if it's not explicitly expressed, the OC maker will think it fell flat and be dissuaded from making more
Thing is, Heyuri of 2020 was way smaller and way slower than modern Heyuri. Sometimes people may not the time to react to OC, because when lurk for only Short time a day they'll mostly see page 0. And page 0 is full of porn dumps. When there used to be only like 4-5 pages that stayed up for days it was obviously more likely for someone to see some OC and react to it.