Genuinely, the most popular piece of second-person literature I can possibly think of is Homestuck. All of the narration in that is second person. I’d bet that exposed more modern people to second person writing than any other single work.
I think Palworld isn’t worth much, personally, but yeah it’s pretty strange to me seeing so many people in here act like it’s particularly depraved.
Then again I’ve seen people genuinely advocate banning violent video games entirely on this webbed site, so I shouldn’t be too too shocked. There’s a biiiiiiiig contingent of people here with rather puritan morals.
Ah, I hadn’t heard of that. I’m not aware how popular Hugo Award winners tend to be in terms of readership, though that’s certainly much more critical acclaim that Homestuck’s gotten, for whatever that’s worth.