Many people are posting fugues on youtube, and many times in the true sense of “whatever sounds like a Bach charicature”.
I have the impression that people think that because they are composing fugues they are allowed to be compose “brain music”, not felt. This happens because we can’t grasp correctly how the music of Bach is really sentimental for him, but his own way. For this reason we should perhaps pay more attention to the fugues of Mozart or composers we can relate better to, in our modern sense. We have to aknowledge that still the counterpoint of Baroque music is very strange to us.
I composed one time a serious fugue in the style of Bach. It got lost since i lost the safety key for an old mac book i had in 2019. I got so frustrated and then gave up writing fugues to show in public, unless i found again a similar inspiration and drive to compose a long fugue.
For this reasons i prefered to stick to the ricercare style of fugues: it is the only genre where i dont feel like copy and pasting a charicature of Bach. Otherwise it sounds like making fun of him. This is what many fugues sound like…