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.
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
On webtoon
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).
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
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.
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
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.
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.
I haven't tried crosspromotion, how does the sub grow when crosspromoting? Is it okay to ask? like how many subs can you get ,thank you~~
You should look into the time you upload your webtoons and how popular your genre is. Usually I upload my comic at midnight where there isn't that much people uploading their stuff. I also recommend uploading during canvas week whenever webtoons have it. The last thing you want is to upload your webcomic when there is heavy upload activities because that's when your comic gets buried by newer posts. Also try listing your webcomic in two genres instead of one, for example, action/horror. That way you get more eyes on your webcomic.
I got some followers when I entered their competition. Ever since it's been quiet-ish. I have it on Tapas too and I found no difference really...
@Freemints30 thank you so much for sharing with me! This is really helpful as I constantly feel down when I Upload and no one reacts. You're right - I should lower my expectations and be patient as I go on with it.
I just Always Wonder if I really am doing anything okaish as I see so many with many more reaction. But as you said I guess it's because of excessive advertisement and they already having a following. Well I'll try honing my skills as I go on and will keep your reality check in mind, thank you!
So, I see this post is a little old, but here's a few ideas in case anyone still needs some:
Link people on social media to your Webtoons.
Join holiday collabs on Webtoons.
Look for canvas creators on social media.
Join Discords for canvas creators.
Make a YouTube video and link your webtoon.
I have a tip for promoting.
Do fanart of an original webtoon, make sure you have the link to your wt on your bio, and post it on Instagram (It can also be done on Twitter but I think users are more engaged on insta) then tag webtoon and the author.
At that time I didn't have a webtoon so I can't say how well it would do, but they posted my fanart on their feed and that gained me 300+ subs on insta. That is something.
Hello! So I'm definitely not as qualified as the more successful artists on webtoons, but I've been on there for almost a year and I had an okay following of about 1000 subs a month ago and then I'm pretty sure my story got featured in one of the collections on the app and it jumped to 2800-ish subs. I also struggled with engaging people to read my story, unlike Tapas webtoons doesn't have profiles for authors so it's harder to link back to their work if you just read a funny comment and want to go look at their profile. So some things I did right before I got featured were:
make your thumbnail art a m a z i n g, still close to the original style, but still on the better scale of your drawing abilities
post often (every week is hard but it does make you more visible), I hear posting in the evenings helps a lot even though I post in the mornings (I think it all depends on what your time zone is)
engage in the comments section, my readers have said they like when authors do this
if you can, host tiny contests, like fanart giveaways (I gave out pinups of one of the male leads for guessing the number of butterflies drawn on a page)
keep positive in your comments and author notes, sometimes its hard but the readers you have will appreciate it!
experiment with your art and the scrolling format if you can, a lot of my readers have said they like this and it better engages your audience on the platform you're on
I hope some of these help, and I totally understand the frustration, but if you're not losing anything from being on webtoons, I recommend still going with it, link people back in the forums and be active in reading other people's works, not only does it support fellow artists, but looking at different art style and layouts can help give you idea for future pages 
EDIT: Also yes, what @demikuro said, do fanart of other peoples works, or trades or even contests! this is all very helpful to engaging people (although potentially more effective on Tapas since you can visit profiles on there)
