The unfahomable appeal of crappy writing

For a while, it was the songfics that flodded the internet. They were shitty, but at least they had some vague resemblance of *stories*. They had some semblance of plot.

Now it's the IM fics. Basically imaginary IM conversations, transcribed. No plot, no description, no characterization, no nothing. Call me a snob, but what exactly makes them stories to begin with?
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