Getting followers on Webtoon?

[artofkj]

I also upload my comic strips on both webtoon and tapas, but overall I would say I love tapas so much more because of how user friendly it is, and how there is actually a community here. In tapas, there's the forum, and all the notifications when you get a like, comment, sub etc. But for webtoon, there's really nothing to enhance the experience. But webtoon still stands out for being the one with a larger readership.

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Save Me From Chloe

[sushy00]

Love how questions about Webtoon are asked here because they have no forum

I don't understand why Webtoon is more popular than Tapas, I think Tapas is more user-friendly and offers more interesting things for creators.
I tried Webtoon too, I have no idea how people found my comic there. I also can't click on their names to view their profile. I kinda stopped uploading there when I didn't really gain subscribers anymore. Right now I am focusing on Tapas.

[gempompadour]

That is so annoying! You have to google a person's username to see if they have other works on webtoon.

[sushy00]

yeah I just don't bother to do that. That's why I prefer Tapas.

[Jenny-Toons]

If you're reading their comic on desktop, you should be able to click their name and find the other stories.

Can't find stories through commenters, but you are able to find the creator's other stories if you already have one of their comics up.

[Kelheor]

Yeah, if you click on a lens near the name it will show the other stories, but only on desktop

[momoikhile]

Long Live Gwendolynn!

[emvink]

yeah, I wish webtoons had a forum and made it easier to see other people's works

[KrazySparrow]

I appreciate you M!

[gempompadour]

Oh thanks! I didn't know that!

[Zak]

I do way better on Tapas than I do on WEBTOONS. However I get one sub every time I update. And it's been so damn consistent as well. I uploaded on both at the same time I started too. So that's been like that for months. So I'm convinced I'll reach the 1000 sub goal when I publish 1000 eps. Lol

Although now I say it out loud I've probably jinxed it lol

[thel3tterm]

Oh wow, this got a lot of responses hahaha.
But yeah, I'm just thinking my comic doesn't fit into what Webtoon readers are looking for, so it's just not getting as many for that reason. I'm still going to try to keep uploading and see if it gets any more as it goes along, but its just so FRUSTRATING to not be able to engage with what few readers I have there the way I can here on Tapas!

I wish their platform was a bit more creator friendly, really.

[Themis]

To be honest I totally get you guys and hope you have been doing better now!
I'm posting here and on webtoon and don't even have 20 followers yet. On Tapas it's even only one person...
I'm getting desperate as I habe already been posting 5 long episodes and it seems like no one is even interested... Am I doing it wrong? Is my story or art that bad?

Would anyone mind giving me some advice?

On tapas

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On webtoon

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[ble]

I can only talk about what worked for me, but i wasn't getting numbers or interactions in webtoons, until i started to make romance comics. I could be wrong, but i think Romance is the top genre in webtoons. (At least i did better than with my older comics, one an action comic and the other comedy).

[Freemints30]

Well for tapas you only have one episode. Generally people may not subscribe cus you might drop it. and it miraculous that you even gained any subs, which is an accomplishment

Let me be honest with you, webcomic growth is slow...very very slow.

You just started.

VERY RARLY any comic gets double digit subs in the 1st month. And usually its because they already have a following, they advertise alot already before hand or they won the lottary.

This is comming from some one who had a comic for a that only gained 12 subs (it wasn't very good) and now has spent a year working on a comic that has 65 subs here, 16 on webtoons(idk how), and 6 on comic fury. And have been updating every week for a year now.

I don't work in the most popular genre nor have much a social media presence. So really it was up hill battele.

Really the best I can say is just lower your expectations. Treat it like youtube, majority of youtubers rarely break out even 100 subs and webcomic audience is alot smaller

[thel3tterm]

Oh, looks like this thread came back again hahaha. That's a little odd.

[Bokyongyo]

Webtoon doesn’t have a forum which can hinder growth for new comics.

Like others have said building a following on other social media’s as well as continuing to do so on Tapas can have a domino effect to webtoon and building a following there.

And for the subscriber thing being a slow burn, yeah webcomics and building an audience can be. Took about a month for my comic to hit 10 subs here and still on the road to building a following on Webtoon, so understand everything you are saying. Just enjoy the journey and eventual your audience will find you, big or small.

[clockworkzari]

everyone is gonna think I'm crazy but post a page every day xDD;;
I did that for awhile and now I have around 200 subs ^w^ But I had to quit to fix some weird censorship issues with webtoon which suxed X__x

[kavaj]

While webtoon seems to have it easier in terms of traffics, i can’t imagine if webtoon have a forum. I mean, i read plenty of terrible stuffs in comment section from bored/hateful/entitled readers. On the other hand, it’ll be nice if some nice readers come to the forum, tho.

[rokudoku]

Get cross promotion with another creators, also get canvas collaborations with another creators. Social media is not very effective if you dont have big followers.