The world has changed and it has become very competitive. Very good pieces of stuff are unexposed and unread by many. Every day something goes viral and that may or may not be good enough to be viral and evrytime something undeserving goes viral, something qualitative gets unexposed to the world. All the hard work goes in vain. Someone famous at somepoint may find it and promote it but that's unlikely to happen in most of the cases. So, the most important term I want to add is 'Luck'. Luck must favor you otherwise it's very difficult.
The point of what I'm saying is: Having some idea of what people like to read or watch on TV or films, helps us know what will make our books popular, if we include those things.
And you are right, in today's world, strange things amuse people. Stressing the word `strange'!! Maybe it's what is happening around us and how we react to it. The pressures we are under, etc.
As to LUCK, we have to push the boundaries a little to make it happen. If you don't write anything, your book never gets written or published anyway! Also: the more you try, the more you learn how to do it better!
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