A theory on Line Webtoon

[beta1042]

i won't be linking it so that it doesn't get unnecessary exposure

[joe_galindez]

too late

[DiegoPalacios]

Ask @Im_moron about the experiment details, he knows the works. The difference here is that we know who subscribes and who leaves, but the interesting thing is to know.....do real humans follow this stuff and the degree of irony around that following.

[beta1042]

So far it only has 7 views(I'm sure half of these were me making sure I did it correctly XD), 1 heart and 1 comment, 1 subscriber- YES THEY"RE ALL JOE! JOE WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? XD

[joe_galindez]

All that beautiful negative space. So simple. So clean.

[GoldenPlume]

YouTube doesn't make a profit. Ditto Twitter.

Eh?

YouTube is mind blowing profitable. Just look into Alphabet's corporate earnings.

Analyst Believes Google Will Soon Reveal YouTube Ad Revenue, Says Video Site Is...

The average video ad costs the advertiser about $.30/engagement. So if you watch for more than :15 or click the ad, the advertiser pays YouTube $.30 and YouTube then gives a cut to that channel's owner.

As for Twitter they are finally turning a small profit. They finished 2017 with net income of $38.7M.

TWTR Income Statement | Twitter, Inc. Stock - Yahoo Finance

1Q 2018 was even better.

Twitter Stock Jumps After Beating Earnings, Revenue Forecasts

"This quarter shows the monetization and ad growth machine at Twitter is finally heading in the right direction after years of a 'one step forward two steps back' strategy," wrote GBH Insights analyst Daniel Ives in a research note to clients.

In our experience however, Twitter ads are by far one of the WORST preforming ad options available for webcomic promotion.

[scythe]

Even if YT made 15B in 2018, that doesn't tell us if it's profitable, but I'll grant you that my claim is based of an interview with the CEO from 2015, so you could be right that they are finally turning a profit, as is Twitter finally, and if they are then they turn out to be yet more example for @niah146 of tech companies that take this route of operating for many years at a loss before they finally turn a profit.

[Im_moron]

in terms of the experiment, its daily, and it be easy to schedule the episodes by reusing the same white canvas, as long as you write down the daily total results in some kind of graph, which is no biggy since Tapas already offers graphs

[lunchtiiime12]

I can pretty safely say that everyone here at Tapastic is real. I know I have a high quality comic. 50 subs in 6 months. By comparison, I have 6000 on line webtoon.

[joe_galindez]

@beta1042 and @Im_moron could also try very gradually darkening the pages and seeing how long it takes for people to notice.

[DiegoPalacios]

"wow, the story is really getting darker"

[beta1042]

right now i'm just going to make it get longer and longer

BUt yeah maybe I'll make it get shorter and darker next

[Im_moron]

lmao, I'm about to finish the experiment after 2 days, or sooner...

Hypothesis: Readers may be inauthentic/robot like.
Conclusion: these numbers and authentic reader interaction is depressing me.

this is like my really angsty predicament, except worse, because it's with blank pages and eVeN MORE eNGageMENT.

[Im_moron]

why even work on a passion project when actual garbage gets more views?
goes into corner and cries
why

[NanettesClouds]

Because views aren't important???

[Im_moron]

Views, likes, comments and subscriber accumilation

this series does better and gets more attention than my actual comic in every regard, and all I'm doing is posting empty canvases of varying sizes

this is vs my other series where I spend 3-6 hours drawing a page

[beta1042]

End it with a big advertisement to your real series he he he he eh

[Rosso]

well i'm glad we have more or less debunked the bot views/comments theory.
but idk what to think of the fact that a blank canvas is getting more action than legit webcomics do :")
perhaps it's just the satire, and readers are rolling with it...?

@Im_moron have you tried asking them in your description to say something specific in the comments, just to test things out?

[DiegoPalacios]

@Im_moron , i think there is a next step in the experiment to make sure of the authenticity of readers is considering that probably, blank pages will eventually get old. This may be an ironic fad, but what happens when the "joke" gets old?, will it lose engagement? or will it become bigger??

We live in a "dank culture" where ironic enjoyment is stronger than ever at the point of becoming genuine enjoyment. So it makes sense at first is catching some attention. But we also live in a culture of fast pacing fads....If it keeps growing after it gets old, what does this says about the audience?

Don`t let this get you down. I think you can use this experience as an inspiration for really angsty. It would be hillarious to see R.A. competing against a random deity writing blank pages.

[LordVincent]

Am I the only one not seeing how this comic is "overperforming"? If anything it's underperforming. I expected far more people to subscribe just to play into the joke.

I have gotten more subs in the span of a single hour than this has by now on my comics. And before anyone starts shouting "bl" or "color" or "mobile scroll"; the comic I'm keeping in mind for this is Horror Comedy, it's not BL, it's black and white manga pages - not mobile scroll - and not romance oriented at all. I didn't promote it anywhere and the first subs didn't seem to recognize me from any of my other platforms or comics.

What I did have on my side is years of experience and a regular update rate. If you have that and a strong intro, gaining subs shouldn't be that hard.

Legit webcomics are still earning more subs than this comic, chill out people xD Don't abandon your true passions; there's still a chance for all of you to get what you want out of your comics if you just hang in there and keep working!