Guys i have made a new story on webtoon and i dont get that much of reach idk if i working okay or not

AYMONTYI 2023-08-25 19:40:41 UTC #1

Guys i have made a new story on webtoon and i dont get that much of reach idk if i working okay or not when can i get featured on canvas btw its called(BLACK KNIGHT)

Headypigeon4180 2023-08-25 20:06:55 UTC #2

Well my first suggestion would be to add a link to your comic when people click on your name. Your profile on here can leave a link to your work. ^^

Webtoons has very poor visibility in general. I heard in the past that in order to be eligible to hit popularity lists your comic needs to have over 1000 total likes. Being featured depends solely on whether or not the editors who run those sections believe that your comic will make the site money. There are a lot of quality comics that are never featured by Webtoons, it's a site with 1.8 millions plus comics in total so a lot does get lost easily, me personally I left the site to focus on Tapas and Globalcomix as I wasn't doing well on WT.

In my experience the only types of comics that get featured are romance novels, stuff with dragons in it, slice of life, shonens and Isekais. It's also a site that doesn't often promote anything adult rated.

I myself quit reading on Webtoons because the comment bot has a timer that stops me posting my next comment too quickly. It will also censor random words like 'drugged' 'landmine', 'suga' and 'Super Mario' I used to open up 3 windows for one comic and leave multiple sets of comments for one comic on the 3 sites it was on. I had to stop doing it because the webtoons comment bot kept slowing me down so much. For comics with short chapters I had to count Missisipis before I could leave a comment I found 5 put me in the clear, it was disgraceful. I nickname the comment bot George Orwell it's one of the reasons why reader retention is so low on Webtoons and why a lot of comment sections tend to be barren. That a long with notifications not working when people leave creators comments or the ability to click on people's names to go to profiles are the reasons why it feels like your shouting into a big barren empty void a lot of the time.

Being featured is nice but you're far better off advertising yourself and being active within the community. A feature on it's own won't do much for you in the long run, it helps if it happens, but on it's own it can only go so far. Webtoons excels at advertising but there are tens of thousands of other creators still active on the site and it's hard to stand out on it.

Kelheor 2023-08-25 20:13:59 UTC #3

Well, it can be found on the Canvas, but yeah, if you want to promote, you better do it with a link.
Whether you get a promo or not will depend on if canvas team will find it looking good enough and/or having nice statistics for promotion.
I would recommend to change the small font in your second episode to bigger oneone and maybe change the format of panels to scroll if you want a higher chance of being seen.

moontokkym 2023-08-26 08:06:03 UTC #4

My friend pointed out that a couple of weeks ago I was on the top 30 in my category with my very small page-format webtoon (at the time under 180 subs and around 250 likes give or take, I didn't even check because I assumed there was no way for me to make the cut) so the 1000 like rumour seems a bit excessive to be a blanket statement.

However my comic is scifi which is famously an underrepresented genre on most webtoon and novel sites plus it's french webtoon so I guess I gain from there not being as much competition as say korean romance or english fantasy, almost all of the comics I see regularly next to my own are the same across platforms.

The comment timer thing 100% sucks though. It's supposed to be an anti-spam device but it just ends up rationing reader's enthusiasm.

Headypigeon4180 2023-08-26 11:48:01 UTC #5

Ok That's good to know the 1000 like rumour was false.

It's a shame the comment bot is real though brrr

Sci Fi is a small genre on Webtoons, Hawk and Flo Adventures was in the Sci Fi section a few times as I was trying to find the genre that fit best. Towards the end it went into the Supernatural section, which I feel is the best place for it to go. This is the last screen cap I have of how well it was doing. This was after a year, the majority of subs were people from the other sites I was on that wanted to support the comic. My goal when I started was to hit 100 subscribers in a year, I managed it on Tapas 2 months after starting on here :). It coincided with the 1 year anniversary of Ice Cream Truck Of Doom ^^.

Everything is deleted now though, when the Terms of Service panic happened, i'd had enough and after the comment bot infuriated me the way it did I jumped ship and tbh i'm better for it. I will confess that much of my perspective on Webtoons is that of someone who was on the site for this past year as opposed to other people like @Kelheor who were on there much longer than I was and was active during the pandemic. At that time a wider variety of stuff was able to do well due to Webtoons having very high site traffic. Nowadays Reddit is full of very negative threads about the state of Webtoons, particularly in r/Webtoons. Every time I go on somebody complains about needing more coins to read more episodes or the comment Bot censoring even more random words.

On a lighter note though one of my recent backers was one of my Webtoon readers so I've no regrets with the time I did spend on the site. The community are lovely and the social media team are nice people that i've had chats with on Twitter when they get chance ^^. They wished me good luck with my Guitar Recital and were supportive of me when my old Laptop was dying.