Bible Prophecy Becoming Reality: Signs In Bible Prophecy

My guess is that as with the Bleeding Cowboy font, somewhere a number of years ago, there was one successful book (some kind of technical manual, I’m guessing) that had a cover with this particular design on it; and then because it was successful, somebody at Amazon KDP CreateSpace assumed it would make an excellent design for making other books successful, and made it into this template. After that, a few more successful books that happened to use this template (also some kind of technical manuals, I’m guessing) convinced a lot of amateur authors using this template would make their books successful as well, so a lot of them started slapping it on their covers regardless of what kind of books they were. Years of abuse and overuse later, this template has now become an instant indicator of a book’s creators being rank amateurs.

It’s kinda like the reason why superhero comic books have so many simian characters in them: back in the 1950s, between the Golden Age and the Silver Age when the industry was in a terrible economic slump, one comic book that managed to rack up some decent sales figures happened to feature monkeys on its cover. Assuming the monkeys were what had made it sell, DC and Marvel and pretty much everybody else proceeded to jump on this “trend” and come up with excuses to put more simians on their covers in hopes of boosting their own sales. Despite these efforts failing to boost sales, they made simian characters so ubiquitous in comics for a while that they came to be something of an in-joke in the industry forever afterward and stories featuring them would later turn up in various animated adaptations (e.g. Grodd the Gorilla being the main villain in one season of the Justice League cartoons before Lex Luthor took over).