Disappointment 😅😅

[Brumoss]

Omg i feel that lol although now im at a point where im 80% sure its me/myart/my story and not lack of marketing lol so im equally disappointed in myself lol

[PapaDom]

Well, Tapas plays the save route with their romance comics and gains this way their "money".
Then there is also the fact that there are over 50.000 creators creating and uploading all kinds of stuff on the site, which can be frustrating getting drowned by the competition and not to forget that most of the readers can be picky about what they read.

Personally, I stopped caring a long time about numbers and just keep making stuff.
Can't please everyone, and if someone finds me, good but meh. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[DasIstWunderblyat]

"Reach millions*)"

_{"*)Hours of hard work and occasional disappointment that is."}

[Kelheor]

Eh, I am still hopeful

[TheLemmaLlama]

Oh, I wasn't disappointed because I'm an old person who's already been uploading art to the void of the internet since before I knew Tapas was a thing, so I already knew the drill by that point

[Moesakuara]

Print comics don't even do those numbers, hahaha. Maybe for multiple books, but one title, unless it is a huge smash that is in print for decades/several years, will not get that crowd. I know this is the internet, but it's just as busy, if not more so, than any real life market place.I can't say I've been struggling for reads lately though, it's been consistent, a nice trickle, lol!

[LCT_m_a_d]

I'm a little bit biased but I feel like at some point, the purity of art (putting art and storytelling before business) is going to start reclaiming the creative culture. We can't control how many subs and views our ideas get, but we can always control how much quality we put into our expression.

Also my friends, who see I keep putting my heart out there in my art despite having a small audience, have become motivated to work on their own craft, purely for the love of it. To me that's a much bigger success measurement. I couldn't really offer a magic sub/view number for a successful comic.

[nkapit]

The tragic but important difference between possibility and probability

[redfish]

at this point we're told to prepare for disappointment and that we may have to invest looong years before we find a fanbase.Still makes it very lonely in the meanwhile

[Legendofgenii]

Don't worry. Keep drawing anyway.

[Lensing]

I will sell 500 printed comic books in the duration of one year.
I work on it until it is good, then I promote it and go on tour through comic shops, I do life
drawing of the characters, then I sing the title song which I wrote and play acoustic guitar.
There are a lot of comic shops in germany and I´ll tour them like a rocknroll band.
500 is a realistic number.
The million people can read other comics

[fleurravenbooks]

i don't have comic but i think it still applies, but when i created wattpad (i planned on publishing only there but then found some site mirroring pretty much every story from wattpad.....then i decided to try again but not as often ) i saw something along the lines of "wattpad is publishing x amount of stories" i can't remember exact number, but i do remember being hopeful my story would reach bigger audience then it did ( i have no idea why tbh)

edit: when i say wattpad is publishing i meant like "actual" publishing

[Fafnir]

I think this add is actually accurate. Compared to every other platform on the web, webtoons had the biggest audience by... like... alot.
So yeah, you CAN reach millions on this platform. WILL you? Probably not... But some comics do. (the really good ones)
I mean, just go to the canvas page and look at the top comics. They have like, 30+ million views.

[nickolaidas]

I feel you. My series never took off, even remotely and it really killed any hype I had to keep it going. It sucks.

[nickolaidas]

What irritates me the most about Tapas is the fact that they refuse to make a low-viewed comic 'visible' in mobile mode UNLESS one actively searches for it.

Which is stupid, because forcing a reader to watch what's new in his computer for artwork that was intended for mobile immediately cuts off your supply from people finding out about your work.

New and less known artists should be helped, not obstructed.

I get it that Tapas wants its main page to be hits-only, but when someone wants to see EVERY comic on their mobile, they SHOULD be able to do so. What annoys me the most is that Tapas could still have its mega-hits main page AND have every story available on mobile from the get-go.

Webtoons is even worse. My series on Tapas didn't do well, but on Webtoons it didn't do at ALL. No one bothered. Literally.

[Nada]

Expectation: I'm going to make myself known... I'll be famous!... Mom, I'll stop being poor!

Reality: 6 visits, 0 likes, 0 subscribers.

[nickolaidas]

And 3 of those visits are your own, checking to see how your comic looks on mobile.

[Lev404]

@Fenris yea we have to give webtoon the credit for making it a lot easier to reach an audience, problem is its SO easy to publish on webtoon that now there are so many series that if you don't have a fan base on a different social media that will transfer to your webtoon you are gonna have a hard time reaching those "millions"

[Lev404]

BRO FR, like on for a long time my subscribers on my very first webtoon were just my 2 webtoon accounts

[Nada]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, exactly... we have to audit the progress of the work.