Why are low effort liveries so popular in showcase?

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Something I've noticed a lot is that some of the liveries with hundreds or thousands of likes take no more effort than slapping a number plate on an otherwise standard car, case in point, of all the new BX liveries one of the most popular starts and finishes with a Japanese number plate, compared to various really cool heavily customised versions, what's the deal? Are people genuinely impressed by hitting "other" twice in the Livery Editor or does Showcase promote things in strange ways?
 
A banana duct taped to the wall as art sold for 6.2 million dollars. I dunno, people are weird.



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Something I've noticed a lot is that some of the liveries with hundreds or thousands of likes take no more effort than slapping a number plate on an otherwise standard car, case in point, of all the new BX liveries one of the most popular starts and finishes with a Japanese number plate, compared to various really cool heavily customised versions, what's the deal? Are people genuinely impressed by hitting "other" twice in the Livery Editor or does Showcase promote things in strange ways?
I think the majority of likes are given in the hope they'll be reciprocated. Why waste time finding good liveries if you're just trying to farm likes yourself?

At the end of the day though, it's not worth anything, so it doesn't really matter. If people have farmed thousands of likes for crap liveries, they're only fooling themselves, but at least they're happy. No harm done!
 
Something I've noticed a lot is that some of the liveries with hundreds or thousands of likes take no more effort than slapping a number plate on an otherwise standard car, case in point, of all the new BX liveries one of the most popular starts and finishes with a Japanese number plate, compared to various really cool heavily customised versions, what's the deal? Are people genuinely impressed by hitting "other" twice in the Livery Editor or does Showcase promote things in strange ways?
The BX was just added to the game and it's reasonable to believe that the more simple styles were among the first to be created, which might explain why they got an unproportional amount of likes.
 
Are people genuinely impressed by hitting "other" twice in the Livery Editor or does Showcase promote things in strange ways?
It's not happened with the new cars yet so it's probably a different reason but if your work gets put into the 'recommended' section then the reacts shoot up. I've had it happen with a couple of pictures and the likes went to over 400 whereas usually I only get a few
I don't know if it's an AI that does this or if someone literally goes through every photo but it is a factor
 
It is pretty annoying, but i make liveries for me. If i get some likes cool, (getting some recognition is always nice) if i don't, not bothered.
But i get that some people find that annoying, that those wheels and paint liveries score so high.
 
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It is pretty annoying, but i make liveries for me. If i get some likes cool, (getting some recognition is always nice) if i don't, not bothered.
But i get that some people find that annoying, that those wheels and paint liveries score so high.
Bit random, but the link in your sig to your livery page doesn't work for me unless I change the /be-nl/ part to another country.
 
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