Can you get shadowbanned on Webtoon?

[pokefairy]

This is a really weird situation.

This is my comic, What's His Deal?, and it's doing pretty well. I have 23.2k subs now, and I used to average 1k-1.5k subs a day.

Then I started bleeding subs instead. Instead of gaining any subs, I was actively losing 1 or 2 subs, which isn't awful but it's so weird that it'd go from +1000 to -2. I was getting about 40k views a day, and then suddenly on Friday, the 23rd, it went to 4000 views. Any idea why this is happening?

I've posted significantly worse-performing comics before but a dip on this scale has never happened. I'm really confused. I hope I didn't break some rule somewhere and get hidden or something...

[GloamingCat]

Did you check if your comic was being promoted? It sounds pretty much like when a comic just gets removed from the front page. It happens.

[Kelheor]

Did you check if your comic was being promoted? It sounds pretty much like when a comic just gets removed from the front page. It happens.

Totally sounds like this. Maybe you were in one promotion after another for 2-3 times even, and then they didn't put you there.
Also 40K a day, wow that's some nice stats

[bear1]

I assume you were promoted on the app or in some list, and now you aren’t anymore. Therefore, you don’t have as much traffic as you did previously.
Bleeding subs after promotion is normal too. I lost several dozens of subs after being on and then off the front page. I assume people see your comic, subscribe but don’t read it immediately. Later, wthey get around to read they might find out it’s not their cup of tea and leave.
It’s kinda natural, imo. And as long as you don’t lose like hundreds or even thousands of subs, you don’t need to worry

[F.uckYou]

I assume you were promoted on the app or in some list

Yes, they're promoted, I remember their comic on the website front a few days ago, and I even subscribed to them back then, but when I checked it now, I wasn't subscribed anymore, weird. (subbed again tho)

[pokefairy]

Yeah, I was definitely promoted for a while, but I literally got a net total of zero subs today, which is... disappointing, especially since I got more than zero subs on the first day of posting.

I'm very grateful for the promotion I got, but when I wasn't being promoted the previous time, I still got 30 subs a day at least, so this is a little odd. (I'm very analytical so I've been keeping a spreadsheet, and +0 or even -5 a day has never happened so far.

[pokefairy]

Thank you so much for reading my comic! I do hope the weird thing with getting unsubbed isn't the cause of my issue, though!

[F.uckYou]

Thank you so much for reading my comic! I do hope the weird thing with getting unsubbed isn't the cause of my issue, though!

You're welcome, I checked other comics that I subbed days ago, and I was unsubbed in them all, maybe it's a bug?

[pokefairy]

That's very possible! Hopefully, Webtoon will say something about it because that's definitely not normal

[F.uckYou]

That's very possible! Hopefully, Webtoon will say something about it because that's definitely not normal

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[F.uckYou]

I guess your problem is very similar to the first link.