People who write fic on mobile genuinely frighten me

Until a few years ago I wrote fic on my Nokia brick, does that help?

I didn’t think it could get worse and yet somehow it did

I’ve never been more fascinated and also deeply unnerved by a person before

Quick rant here, you knows what ticks me off. People who read these stories on illegal sites but then leave comments like "lazy writing" "sucky plot" I'm like are you really criticizing the author when you didn't even pay to read it?? Like I'm not saying you have to love a story but straight up criticizing it when you are on illegal site is a bit ehhh?? I'm not even talking about saying oh this story is toxic or ehh I wasn't too happy with the ending. Like ya you can express your opinion, but to straight up leave a comment saying an author was lazy or say you give the plot a 0/10 like what excuse you?? Do you know how hard these authors work, they owe you nothing. Especially when you aren't even paying to read their work.

what’s the difference between expressing my opinion (which, according to you, is allowed) and giving a plot 0/10 or saying an author was lazy? also, just because I didn’t pay to read a story doesn’t change the fact that the plot is shitty... like Idk, this just sounds like entitled gatekeeping to me

To clarify i'm not trying to act all high and mighty either and I'm not attacking those who are reading the stories for free. I'm just as guilty for reading on the non official sites. I do my best to support authors but I read so many stories that I don't have the money to buy everything. In the end the number of stories I'm reading combined with the chapters....it adds up to a lot. So I am just as guilty for reading on an illegal site. Combined with the fact that there's so many different apps that these stories are on. People on here saying I'm gatekeeping and I'm acting entitled when y'all are proving my point. I saw someone say they would hate to pay for a story with lazy writing??? But ya I'm the entitled one. Again may I remind you we are reading on an illegal site in which many of the authors have asked us not to read on. My point is they didn't work their asses off just for someone who is reading their story on an illegal site or didn't pay for their work to say oh this story has such a shitty plot. I think we (and I include myself) tend to get spoiled with having free access to these stories that we forget the authors hard work. So I guess let me rephrase this, there is a difference in constructive criticism and just being plain up rude about something.