Bryce O'Connor

@OConnorBooks · Rochester, NY · joined 21 Feb 2015

Writer by day, sleeping person by night. Repped by Seth Fishman @ The Gernert Company. Also CEO of @Wraithmarked 📚 👻 📚

87 956Followers

131Following

20 949Posts total

701.4KViews on collected posts

Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.81%15 Apr

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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes85.0%10 881 in total

Reposts8.1%1 036 in total

Replies1.8%230 in total

Quotes1.5%197 in total

Bookmarks3.6%459 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

@OConnorBooks The question is, what was Ryan doing when he said it? 91 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 19 Aug 2025 · Open on X →

@OConnorBooks https://t.co/cvUSrUIcQY 123 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 19 Aug 2025 · Open on X →

@OConnorBooks https://t.co/WGxAclQmFN 113 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 19 Aug 2025 · Open on X →

Bryce O'Connor likes to be railed. -Ryan Cahill 2.4K views · 22 likes · 1 reposts · 4 replies 19 Aug 2025 · Open on X →

Just watched a guy at the store replace the double-stuffed Oreos in his shopping cart with regular-stuffed while muttering "You're on a diet, Jerry. You're on a diet." Keep fighting the good fight, Jerry. 1.1K views · 14 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 19 Jul 2025 · Open on X →

Fun fact: Books are so heavy that there are new libraries that have had to be torn down and rebuilt because the architects forgot to account for the weight of the paper! 1.1K views · 12 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 18 Jul 2025 · Open on X →

Can't decide if leaving behind my phone and computer and just walking into the woods for a week sounds more like a terrible idea or absolute heaven. 926 views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 17 Jul 2025 · Open on X →

@OConnorBooks One small thing to add - workers at bookstores despise books with AI generated covers. I know several people who work at bookstores. You know what they do to books with AI covers? 1) They don't recommend them to customers 2) They organize shelves to put your book 11.1K views · 478 likes · 26 reposts · 14 replies 15 Apr 2024 · Open on X →

Pay an artist. Save yourself. (10/10) 16.6K views · 712 likes · 33 reposts · 18 replies 15 Apr 2024 · Open on X →

99% of that goes away the moment it becomes public knowledge that you use AI, that you steal from fellow creators in order to try to gain some *tiny* advantage for yourself. Few authors are going to RT you. No YouTuber is going to mention your book or cover. (7/10) 18.5K views · 583 likes · 21 reposts · 4 replies 15 Apr 2024 · Open on X →

I can't think of a BookToker who is going to work with you, nor any serious influencer who will want that on their Instagram page. You are sacrificing so much, and for what? To save $1000? $1500? Plus a few total hours of your time? That doesn't math out. (8/10) 16.9K views · 531 likes · 19 reposts · 5 replies 15 Apr 2024 · Open on X →

And yes, I am acutely aware that $1000+ is a *huge* amount of money for a lot of people. Not discounting that. But AI art isn't making publishing "accessible" to you. You're paying WAY more in the end. You're paying in reputation, opportunity, and the chance of success. (9/10) 17.9K views · 597 likes · 26 reposts · 3 replies 15 Apr 2024 · Open on X →

This also applies to your reputation amongst artists. Want to hire Felix Ortiz one day? Or Asur Misoa? Or YAM? Or Swanland or Lockwood or *any* reputable artist? If they find out that you've got AI on other covers, good luck. Chances are you've excommunicated yourself. (5/10) 21.6K views · 628 likes · 25 reposts · 8 replies 15 Apr 2024 · Open on X →

Second is your reputation. Going along with the above, 99% of the authors I know do not want to be associated with AI, whether that be art on the covers or text in the book. You won't catch us using it, and you won't catch us making buddy-buddy with people who use it. (4/10) 24.4K views · 652 likes · 25 reposts · 5 replies 15 Apr 2024 · Open on X →

But here's the third and most important thing I don't think you're thinking about: Your marketability. Having the support of the writing community is almost essential when it comes to getting a book off the ground. The RTs, NL shares, shoutouts, YouTube mentions, etc. (6/10) 33.1K views · 557 likes · 20 reposts · 7 replies 15 Apr 2024 · Open on X →

Authors using AI art on your covers, you're cutting off your own leg. I'm not even talking about the accusations of "thief" that you're going to get. Let's set that aside. I'm talking about the price you're paying in reputation and marketability to save maybe $1000. (1/10) 468.5K views · 4.5K likes · 782 reposts · 142 replies 15 Apr 2024 · Open on X →

are made aware of how they feel. Anyone who thinks that AI is lazy and shoddy work, and anyone who sees the imperfections in an AI cover and loses interest because of it. So there's a not-insignificant portion of the market you are cutting yourself out of right there. (3/10) 25.9K views · 701 likes · 23 reposts · 5 replies 15 Apr 2024 · Open on X →

First, there's a straightforward one you should be aware of: There are a LOT of people who will pass over books with AI covers on principle. 99% of artists out there (and there are a lot), and their friends and family. Most authors, and many of their readers who (2/10) 41.1K views · 910 likes · 32 reposts · 11 replies 15 Apr 2024 · Open on X →

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