Cyber-literature has become a publishing phenomenon, with teenage readers idolizing its star authors: writers such as Tsai Chih-heng-who set the ball rolling with his first cyber-novel and is known online as "Slicker Tsai" -along with Chi Chi, and Shuang-tzu.
網路文學出版大賣，網上暱稱「痞子蔡」的蔡智恆打響第一炮，後繼者如小女生琦琦、霜子，也成為青少年的偶像。