by King Booger
[If the world ended, who would you want to be?]Well... how about not dead? David is a painfully average teenager stuck in a painfully repetitive life. School, friends and family keep finding ways to kick him down and it sure looks like nothing will ever change... Then the whole world changed into a video game. NIRVANAAAH~~!! But instead of enjoying himself at the end o' the world, David needs to make sure his parents, his grandparents and one of his best friends are safe and sound... Oh, and he also needs to kill lots of Monsters, Raid Dungeons and make new enemies? Bummer... Will David do all of that? Or will he get incredibly sidetracked by the wackiness of it all?
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Rank updated 13 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Entry forecast updated 13 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Overall Rising Stars shadow rank
deep field · ~#835 of 7,531 · 785 below #50
By genre
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Hidden gem — exposure is the bottleneck
Readers who find this story follow it at a high rate; there just aren't enough of them. In our cohort data, near-daily posting lifted the odds of reaching 25 followers from ~0% to 17% — more chapters, shoutout swaps and ads buy the eyeballs this conversion deserves.
At this conversion, the Comedy Rising Stars bar (≈2 new followers/day) costs about 230 views/day — the story currently gets ~63.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 50–149 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
