All this talk about sites and Webtoon and Tapas and all that...
But...here I am thinking "I wonder if this is how any of my my bookmarked reads feel"
And honestly, this is something I think about a lot. I haven't posted yet to Tapas or Webtoons. I've only posted to Deviantart. And over there? I was invisible. I had changed accounts, thinking it was my art style. So I took a hiatus, improved my art, and then posted again on a new account. Only one friend was posting on my work, and I was doing the same for hers.
Still nothing. And I was going "what am I doing wrong?"
But...it wasn't until 2016 that I started to stop worrying about that ad just post because I loved the work.
It was also the same time I started to engage people who posted on my work and engaged the people I followed. I talked with them, answered their polls, joked with them. We talked about our art, our stories, all of that. But I didn't do it for attention -- I did it because it was fun and I thought these people were awesome!
And suddenly -- people started following me and posted on my work -- the same way I was watching and posted on their stuff as well.
My advice: Get involved with the community -- not just in the forums. Those comics and books you saved? Post on them. Like the creator's post, tip them if you can. Don't just do it in hopes of "a sub for a sub". Do it because you honestly want to.
I think a big part of getting out there is to also help others get out there too. I know there's a few of us here who have a few books and comics saved but we don't really read them and tip and comment as often as we'd like to. I know I've cut off from that recently because of school. but I wanna get back to that again, because I have the coins to do it. I wouldn't bookmark and like people's work if I didn't feel they deserved that recongition.
We can argue about how Tapas or Webtoon doesn't help us as they should, and I'd agree with some aspects to that (though some of the things said can get outta hand). Sometimes, people need to stop looking at the big guys and look at the little guys. But it's also the little guys who gotta look after the littler guys sometimes. Because if we don't do that...who will?
I encourage everyone here to keep posting if it makes you happy and it's something you enjoy. But I also encourage everyone to be apart of getting those voices out.
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