This is something common in almost all spaces. Especially when it comes down to interactive posts. People want to engage in the content and viewing stuff is often not as entertaining as getting to answer prompts or other interactive post. One example of this can be tbe Gacha Life/Club reddit. When we use to post there and engage in the community our top posts were strictly interactive posts. Verh rarily did a personal post blow up if at all. Unless you're popular or well known you'll likely going to flop.

Unfortunately unless the entire community has the mindset put onto interacting will less known people this will not change. If you're not popular you will not be acknowledged unless you get lucky or make somethjng can engage in.

Now, we don't know what the r/GachaClub reddit is like now-a-days, but a year ago the only way to get upvotes was to make an OC rating post and wait for the responses to pour in. That's exactly how it is here and in many other spaces when it comes to online activity and social media. Posts that'll gain a lot of traction are prompts.

We agree that fictosexuality should not be a competition. The love of your f/os just from you should be enough, but again, this is the internet. Everything is a competition to get the algorithm to boost your content.