Does it hurt you when someone unfollows your novel/comic?

[morganicfoods]

It might hurt a lil bit, but the only time it happened to me was when I was at 71 subscribers, and 2 people unsubbed. This put me back at 69. Nice. I couldn't dare be mad.

[BelleBriar]

Ah, I like that word better for it!

[abigaillmartin]

Not hurt or mad per se. Just a little bit more on the lines of “yeah. Whatever.”

[BelleBriar]

I get burnt out of reading the same type of story over and over again, but I really haven’t found that in anyone’s story/comic here that I follow! But I understand, I couldn’t read or write any more than I already was when I was getting my bachelors. I thought I was going to die in a sea of books. It took me a year to write for myself again

[BelleBriar]

Very true! Everyone has their likes and dislikes. Even I have my own preferences on what I really want to read. But I do try to give other genres a chance and sometimes I’m really surprised!

[Aeneas1]

To put it bluntly: yes.

[igneriss]

Well it stings a bit but it's okay, I've unsubbed from some comics myself so I get it

[Dei]

Not really. If they don't read it, I get that it's not for them. It feels like dead subs affect my work's visibility anyway

[feuersichel]

I rarely look at the sub count, so it doensn't sting me at all. Sometimes people just loose interest in a storry, that happend to me aswell. For the algorithm it even is helpfull, when uninterested readers unsub than being a dead sub. I'm more focused on the view and like count... That's where it stings me ^^'

[thepenmonster]

That's just their utter lack of good taste.You can't fix that so move on.

[abigaillmartin]

That’s honestly what I think. They’re missing out! 🤣

[allisoncandraw]

It doesn't particularly bother me. I think a lot of people on here expect sub4sub and I don't normally do that, so it makes sense that I'd have some unfollows.

[BelleBriar]

This made me giggle lol

[DanielRKM]

Oh man, it really, really used to. Don't let it bring you down because it really isn't a reflection of your work.

After I started losing subs, it made me really analyze my approach (and my feelings). After some soul searching, I changed my little "Thanks for Subbing" picture to always include a note saying "I hope you enjoy your stay here." That ways, it implies the temporary nature of subscribers (for my mental health- and I genuinely hope they dig hanging out with my characters for a while).

Good luck!!!! Go kick some butt, @BelleBriar

[BelleBriar]

That’s a good little note to add! Thank you. It’s wonderful that everyone is so nice here! 🥺

[GumshoeComix]

not really, it typically means they weren't reading in the first place, and I'd like to have my followers be active readers

[hakei]

I don't look at my comic numbers but oof -- when it comes to Patreon, it does sting and makes me wonder what I'm doing wrong even if I know most of the people leaving are probably due to financial reasons.

Some people even leave mean exit survey comments but I try to avoid looking at the surveys unless I notice an unusually large amount of people leaving.

[BelleBriar]

Noooo not the mean comments but yes, you can’t make everyone happy (and some are not happy, no matter what you do). I would say 99.9999% it’s financially related with the teeny outlier. Very teeny. Non existent. They don’t matter.

I will keep that in mind for myself

mean exit survey comments

[Teira]

Not really. I'm too concentrated on other things to be worried about sub count. People online can be fickle, so its bound to happen at some point.

[N1ghtm4r3]

kind of does but what can you do