Let's look at the stats for the AO3 postings, current as these words emerge from my purple but smoking keyboard:
Having compiled these stats, the closest thing I can see to a pattern may be that stories with large numbers of fandoms and/or moeblobs get higher engagement. It's so unreadable that I might as well have drawn in a chain of fox heads on sticks and seen if the word "death" started flashing.
- My Apartment Manager Is Not an Isekai Character (story): 4 comments, 7 kudos, 1 bookmark, 641 hits
- Skein of Fools: 2 kudos, 102 hits
- Moving Days, Part I: 4 kudos, 111 hits
- Ah, Crepe: 6 kudos, 90 hits
- Strange Tides: 3 kudos, 1 bookmark, 152 hits
- Outriding: 1 kudo(s?), 65 hits
- Sailors on Foreign Shores: 3 kudos, 101 hits
- Where the Heart Is: 2 kudos, 72 hits
- One Night After Death: 1 kudo(s?), 44 hits
- A Little Slice of Heaven on the Gulf: 3 kudos, 1 bookmark, 76 hits
- No Thanks, We've Already Got One: 1 comment, 3 kudos, 204 hits
- Cuisine Clash: 1 comment, 3 kudos, 53 hits
- Home in the Maritimes: 4 kudos, 143 hits
- Moving Days, Part II: 2 comments, 2 kudos, 100 hits
- Time in the Woods: 4 kudos, 64 hits
- Adrift in Time: 2 comments, 9 kudos, 130 hits
- The Eyes in Her Fire: 5 kudos, 67 hits
- Kuroko's Casefile: 2 kudos, 107 hits
- Everyone's a Critic: 1 comment, 6 kudos, 1 bookmark, 187 hits
- Weekend Update: 3 kudos, 50 hits
- Tell Me, What Do You Want?: 3 kudos, 47 hits
- House Call: 4 comments, 3 kudos, 61 hits
- It's All Relative: 6 kudos, 95 hits
- Light and Heavy: 1 comment, 1 kudo(s?), 32 hits
- The Displaced Mrs. Pollifax: 4 comments, 3 kudos, 46 hits
- Thermal - er, Culture Shock: 2 kudos, 13 hits
- So You Just Arrived from a Parallel Universe: 13 comments, 5 kudos, 118 hits
Having compiled these stats, the closest thing I can see to a pattern may be that stories with large numbers of fandoms and/or moeblobs get higher engagement. It's so unreadable that I might as well have drawn in a chain of fox heads on sticks and seen if the word "death" started flashing.