A theory on Line Webtoon

[Emevsa]

I've been checking them out and some genuinely deserve the attention but some I look at and think, "how the hell did you get featured?" There are some really awesome comics out there but I feel like the people in charge of the featuring favour "friends" rather than what actually deserves a look in.

[fleohr]

True! There are creators that possibly got featured thanks to their popularity on the internet, or had a featured comic before, and some thanks to their friends who are also featured authors. There are also comics from Naver that also got featured on LW.

But there's a previous featured author that I also made the same question as you, they already completed their comic, and made a new one this year, it got featured on the recommended titles for a couple weeks and it was at the first on the list. I wonder if the author tried to sell for LW before launching it to discovery and they tried to see how much popularity it would get before thinking about it hmm

Maybe I'm just speculating too much, but the same thing happened to The Devil is a Handsome Man when it got featured on the recommended titles, it stayed there at the first on the list for a while and suddenly the author said something about reviewing the previous episodes to make it good, then the announcement of becoming featured came out

[beta1042]

Ok So I got this Private message today about the white comic on tapas:

here are view stats:

All but that one second like are from Joe, and all the comments are from Joe- I think it's safe to assume we can ignore those. I scheduled out updates so the views shouldn't be from me.

Currently has 4 subscribers.

XD

[Jenny-Toons]

See, we need to make a co-author series.
Everyone pick a color -- some type of color. And just post that.

[beta1042]

I have some easter eggs planned for some future updates to spice it up lol

[beta1042]

Ok what happened yesterday?

6 subs now, more people commenting and interacting than just Joe now XD

[DiegoPalacios]

did you uploaded the easter egg episode? that could have affected the result making people think there is more to see. Or maybe more people are embracing irony.

[beta1042]

Easter egg was today, so that is yet to show it's effect

[beta1042]

Not sure if anyone still cares about this. But it's doing pretty well(definitely out performs my real Comic which has over 150subs which is sort of depressing). Not sure if it's partially because it updates daily, but whatever I'm having a lot of fun with it so I'm gonna keep it up until I grow bored. Joe stopped commenting, so those 2 comments are actually other people being active readers. I'm also testing out which days of the week and times of day are best. And I compared with my other comic, June 13 was just a good day for both comics(Even though it had been days since I updated for my other comic) and I'm not sure why.

As of right now it has 19 subs.

[Im_moron]

Not sure if anyone still cares about this. But it's doing pretty well(definitely out performs my real Comic which has over 150subs which is sort of depressing)

I feel you

also dropped the beans from my "comic" that it was an experiment, will check it tomorrow I guess

[DiegoPalacios]

@beta1042 @Im_moron , at least i am still interested in how it goes. More out of scientific curiosity about how far this will go.

[SedateCanopy]

Can you please experiment if the Page Views we're still intact from a deleted episode..? I heard somewhere that people used to make a single page announcement or art dump then delete the episode before the month resets and therefore gives them plus PVs...

[Edgmont]

By my own experience, the page views from a deleted update got deleted too 24 hours later. Which you don't lose are the views from another episodes thanks to your last update.

[Im_moron]

uploads a page explaining the experiment
somehow performs WORSE than pages that are blank....
wh-

[DiegoPalacios]

Kind of make sense, nobody likes being experimented on. At least not if they are unpaid.

Also, the black letters made it lose it`s "original empty canvas where you could project anything" kind of charm.

[Draconic]

uploads a page explaining the experimentsomehow performs WORSE than pages that are blank....wh-

You never explain the joke!
The joke will be ruined when you explain it.

[Im_moron]

the joke is, it's a dissapointing upload

[beta1042]

Soooo i totally forgot about this and neglected the comic from around aug last yr till may this yr when I decided to bring the all white comic back to life. To those wondering it is thriving more than ever these days xD it's gained about 50subs in the last two months and about 5k in views, and today I was able to unlock ad rev. It now totals around 10k views and 100subs. I'm gonna keep at it and see how long and how far I can take it until I get bored and forget about it again lol.

Apologies in advance for reviving the zombie thread xD

[Emevsa]

We've been doing well (still no where near ad revenue but we're happy nonetheless). We don't get a huge bump in subs when an episode is released, rather they slowly gather during each update. We had a long hiatus and during that time we hit 1k subs. That was in April. We're now 7 away from 1.2k. All in all I guess you just gotta keep going haha.

[Hinata]

This thread seems to be an old one, but I have the same experience where I got featured on LW banner and gained thousands of additional subs. So I thought my comic seems to be performing well. But for that month, I only got the same $200 like from the previous month even tho subs and page views increased like 5 times than before. Also after updating an episode the next month, I lost like 300 subs in a day. So I don't really know how LW works because this phenomenon confused me a lot. I have been consistent with my scheduled updates too. Or are subs and page views alone not the basis of a good monthly performance?