The "joy" of writing for a small fandom

It's no secret that I love Weki Meki and have written tons of fanfic about them. I've had a lot of fun doing it, and people seem to have enjoyed my fics. But my problem is this: Weki Meki fandom is a small fandom. I could probably get a lot more hits, comments, and upvotes if I was writing about a more popular group. I was thinking about this this morning: I have a new fic I want to start. I could write it as a Weki Meki fic, but I could almost as easily change a few things and write it about Twice or Red Velvet or some other group. (Red Velvet is about the lower limit as far as group size.) So there's my dilemma: Do I keep writing in the small fandom I love, or do I write for a group that's my ult bias group because that's what the "market" wants? I'd love to hear any thoughts anybody has about this. Do you write in a small fandom? How do you feel about that? Have you ever written (or considered writing) a story about a more popular group just for the hits?  

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Nana-san #1
Well, as I see it, this isn't a real job or anything, we all write here as a hobby. And why have a hobby if you aren't going to have fun with it? In my case, I write about bigger groups because I want more people to read my work, and I don't really know many smaller groups, so I'll put the smaller groups in as side characters. But that's just because it's very well separated in my head character from person and the choice of the name "playing" it is merely based on who would look better as the character, and not attaching anything to the person, per se. And I don't even get that many hits at all, even using bigger groups. So, you kind of have to decide if you do this for your passion or for the numbers.
hblake44 #2
I can't exactly say that Loona is an unpopular group, but in comparison to Twice and RV, they are. My first stories were for Twice and they had a lot of hits and comments as well. The comments are my favourite part, so I think I miss that when it comes to my new stories. The start of those Loona stories had also been slow, but they were the group I wanted to write for. I stopped writing for my other Twice stories, discontinuing two of them with the third not being updated for a long time. However, I can't say I haven't missed writing for a larger fandom.

I'm not sure how your writing goes, but if you can still write that story and make it for Twice or RV and you want to, I'd say go for it. It's probably nice to alternate things
BlackRosesTears #3
It would be a lie to say that I don't care about comments and the amount of people reading my stories.
But it is the truth when I saw that I write about groups that I like. I could never write about a group that I am not interested in at least a little bit. I guess, I am writing more about groups that are popular or were at least at one point of time but I also wrote about groups with a smaller fandom in the past.
I enjoy doing both. I guess it depends on what you want to achieve. You could always do both. Write stories about more popular groups that you like and write stories about groups with smaller fandoms.
existslikePristin #4
I want to write more CLC content just because I love them so much, but that Red Velvet demand is a powerful motivator too. I'm a view/comment/vote ho, so I'm glad I actually like RV too. I'm going to try mixing groups more, since that seems to be a decent method of snagging the popular group audience. It worked relatively well with Gfriend and Twice at least.

Don't tell my readers, but the RV fic I'm currently finishing up was definitely 90% just to try to get more attention. XD
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