This is gonna be long but I want to preface this with two points:
- I don't own or run anything competing with VoyceMe in any way
- I've been in a single conversation with the owner and he seems like an outwardly nice person
Okay my starting statement, I personally believe VoyceMe is either a grift or the work of an incredibly short-sighted individual with no real experience in the comics industry or in running a business of any kind. The owner Telano is a 20 year old with some funding, not Y-Combinator, dunno which specifically.
The way his site is run and some of the things I know behind the scenes cause me internal haemorrhaging:
- The VoyceMe originals give up 50% of their IP to the site
Assistants and some originals creators* afaik are "paid" with percentage of the future potential revenue of the IP
To have a creator account you must hand over your phone number and during one of their "Town Hall" style events on their discord; the owner, Telano, when questioned on the kind of security being used to keep such personal information safe, he said he'd pay people to hack it to prove it's secure/find insecurities. This is not how Cyber Security works and this is not how you gain any level of trust with users.
There seem to be no developers on staff and he's relying on the work of the service WebDesignProfs. From what I've heard through the grape vine, they're a super cheap method of getting a site made. They basically kitbash templates with the occasional original code/tool implemented.
There is just Tokyo Ghoul art on the main page, this one is just stupid
![](https://forums.tapas.io/uploads/default/original/3X/c/4/c499932f6dbc6dc823dde370a9620a3adb66a9ad.png)
- There is a clown/luffy face on the trending tab, again just another weird dumb thing
- If you're someone that cares about the kind of people on there, while the owner and management seem like very normal people. A very common thing is to find comicsgaters and people throwing slurs around like the world is ending. Although this may be changing as I've seen a few of them get banned but just letting you know
I could go on but the long and short is, they're at the very best super unprofessional and not worth investing in because their failure is imminent, and at the very worst, big grift for free IP run by some kid with more money than knowledge. You decide
*This has not been completely confirmed but I've spoken with one or two insiders who said this to me, the assistants is confirmed though, I've seen the receipts.
EDIT: Some grammar and ease of reading edits