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Aaah that's so kind of you to say! ♡♡ thank you lol

Like they wouldn't let you post on webtoon? If so that's shitty of them :/

Thank you so much!! Drawing braids is so fun lol

That's great! It's super important to know your limits when it comes to this sort of thing, overworking yourself can lead to burnout and worse. Imo having fun should definitely be a priority, especially if comics are a hobby (I know it's not always sunshine and rainbows if it's for pay-the-bills kind of work), I'm glad to hear you have that sort of mindset. :) Personally I'll always advocate for having a personal site (even if I don't have one myself), you can have a lot more freedom with how you present your comic.

yeah they’ve got such a backwards way of doing things, idk how people can stand it lol glad you liked seeing the new baby lol, he’s three months old, he doesn’t give a damn what we want lol if something is in his way soon it won’t be

ahhh yeah sorry, the discord severe just got to be too much for me after last year. you’re always welcome to dm me though! it never feels like a bother (I may just take a while to reply sometimes bc of work and stuff). it’s such a bummer seeing how much the webcomic world has changed in the past few years and not necessarily for the better. I met you and so many other great friends through comicfury and it’s so hard to find other casual spaces where you can do that nowadays. Like it’s great that more people are familiar with webcomics but it’s so disheartening to see a whole medium be reduced to one platform’s branding (like a worse version of using photoshop to describe any doctored image). the impersonal way readers that grew up with platforms like webtoon dominating the market feels so inherently counterintuitive to everything webcomics used to be: making your weird little stories and finding other people who like your weird little stories. Calling it ‘customer feedback’ is an excellent way to describe it, it really does feel like that when I get those types of comments. It doesn’t feel like they have any respect for the creators and just demand Product. Hopefully things will circle back around eventually and webcomics will become less corporatized and we’ll see more comics hosted on their own websites, etc, but the current climate just feels really demoralizing sometimes.

me too! having a separate site for the comic allows you to show so much more of the comic’s personality than the more corporate sites like webtoon (but at the same time I totally understand that some people can’t pay for hosting or know how to code a website, i’m one of them lol, so I definitely get the appeal of a hosting site)

@@kellerybird a hosting site makes it easier to share and be discovered but it makes you just another content creator. Easily disposable by the website and not unique enough to draw people off of it. It also doesn't allow you the creative freedom to take things beyond just a comic. Look at homestuck it had full videos and little games in the canon timeline that made it so iconic.

yeah, it’s definitely a double edged sword. that’s why I love comicfury so much, it’s a really good balance between the two in my opinion, yeah it’s a hosting platform but I can fully customize my site & all that AND get the benefits of having an active community that isn’t inherently biased towards one type of comic

Yeah I've been hearing about a lot of creators leaving or abandoning their series bc of webtoon, it's terrible and heartbreaking. It's always been a goal of mine to have a personal site for my comic and I just got to the point where I couldn't stand the corporate nature of the platforms. It absolutely makes sense what you're saying about it being more about numbers than creating & sharing art/stories, it's really disheartening to see so many people with that kind of mindset imo. I don't use this term lightly but in my opinion (& in my experience) webtoon is a pretty toxic platform 😔

Thank you! ♡

Omg yeah it was so jarring coming back to comics and seeing webtoon being the dominant platform & format. I'm glad I'm not the only person that feels this way though, it really does feel inauthentic, that's a perfect way to describe it. I make comics so I can tell a story and (hopefully) build a community around that, I'm not here just to push out disingenuous content to be consumed without an afterthought. I already put a TON of time and effort into my comic and it's been so disheartening seeing people just constantly demand more and more when I can't accomodate that. Personally I find readers that will engage with the story & creator infinitely more valuable than just subscriber numbers. I'm glad you like the video! ♡ I'm hoping to get at least one out per month going forward until I get back in the habit of making them regularly again. :)

Re: Tapas, it's mostly the unavoidable ads for their 'originals' comics that get shoved into my notifications and making it harder to find some comics. Tbh I'd been turned off from Tapas for quite a while and this just gave me "why bother" vibes. Ultimately neither platform really suits what I want to be able to do with my comics, so I decided to leave. I still have accounts so I can keep up with comics I read on both platforms, but I'm not posting my stuff there anymore (which I know isn't necessarily an option for everyone, like contracted webtoon creators). I want to be able to really push myself as a creator and, as of right now, I can't see these platforms supporting that past a certain point. I'm glad you liked the video! I've got more coming soon-ish (once I edit them lol)

@@kellerybird The way I'd prefer for my inbox on Tapas to just be likes, comments, and replies… but it's hundreds of gift episodes for licensed, translated web manhua I don't wanna readddd 😭😭😭. On top of that, I don't like how they've excluded user-made comics and novels from the… comics and novels tabs, shoving all the user content into a "Community" tab. It doesn't feel right.

ugh yeah seeing those ads for stuff i’m never gonna touch in my inbox was so exhausting, especially since there’s no way to get rid of them. it just feels like they’re trying to alienate their indie creators , like ‘conform to our standards or good luck getting any readers I guess’. part of me wants to say putting it under a “community” tab would’ve made sense if they’d done it right, but the other part knows people new to the site aren’t gonna know that the “community” tab isn’t like… a discussion board or something

Thanks so much Eru ♡♡♡ I'm so happy to be updating everything again, I really missed the structure it gave to my life lol

Thank you for sharing! It definitely feels like a time for something new to begin

Thank you thank you Eru ♡ I'm so glad you liked this one, I also feel like I'm getting better at making videos with each one lol

Thank you so much! So glad you enjoyed it ♡

lol yes!! I' am an aspiring (?) youtuber now, I'm just really, really bad at remembering to share videos. I'm glad you're enjoying this, I plan on making a lot more of these artist vlogs in the future ♡

I'm glad you think so!