Anyone in the forums who still enjoyed any of my work, I won't be staying. The new "community guidelines" have made the site into every other lame attempt at a cash-in on creative people, and I wasn't that fond of Tapas to begin with. At least in the beginning, when I contacted Michael, he had no problem with non-sexual nudity. Which, I don't know if any of you are aware of, cannot be conflated with sex, pornography, or anything else related. Or unrelated, like illegal content...which this isn't.
I posted a video not 48 hours ago that discussed this very topic, so it's at least timely. Thanks but no thanks. I'm not in this to support censorship and exploitation of creative works and creative professionals. I'll be removing my comics and ultimately my presence from this site.
I'm sure the people running the site will have a great time trying to get a pat on the head from Apple or whichever corporate overlord they're trying to please this month. It'll be something unexpected to the handful of people left in a few years, when the site gets sold to another profiteer trying to cash in, just like SmackJeeves and more other comic and art hosts than I can count.
I do hope those who take their work seriously and are mature enough to do so, will go to a superior host like The Duck or PaperDemon. If you end up there and wanted to say hi, please do! I'm friendly enough with people who aren't trying to cash in on my hard work and inevitably stab me in the back a little while later. Maybe we can do a collaboration or something!
For all those creative marvels, I hope to see you around. For Tapas, I won't miss you at all. Good riddance, and one less site to have to bother with...especially considering all the extra work you ask creators to do that can only be used on your site! Nice way of trying to pretend you're special, but I've been around this block more than once. It's tomorrow's abandoned strip mall.
Ciao.