Has an author's personality turned you off from continuing reading a story?

[Geek_Aflame]

author includes a lot of the "sorry for not posting sooner, XYZ happened or Finals were rough, so...

People actually put this in the body of their stories? Stuff like that is the reason the creator wall and description exist.

[cherrystark]

Oh yeah, sometimes it's just a sentence, other times a couple paragraphs. One author decided to tease full chapters of their other story in the first story on top of their author note chapters

[Kura]

Absolutely.

If someone is constantly harassing or attacking artists I know. I am not gonna read their shit. Simple as that. My free time is limited because I draw comics. I'm not going to waste it on people that treat my friends like garbage.

[amortelito]

Yes, but I'm way more tolerant now.
If I really like the comic/movie/book, I try to not punish the art because of the author.

[beta1042]

Yep. I already have soooo many comics on my to-read lists. I'm not gonna waste my time on a comic from someone who I know is a jerk.

[rajillustration]

Yes, mostly from twitter, honestly. I've had to block some nice and generally good people with great art just because they liked to stir the pot, and then it would make everyone else on art twitter rant about the same arguments over and over again--for like weeks. It made me so tired I just had to block.

Even if I absolutely agree with their opinion. I just gotta block. Some people are just really bad about the way they share it, and get very aggressive and send out literal mobs of fans after small accounts...it's not good networking.

As far as the forums go...I don't sub that often to begin with, honestly. So generally the people who cause chaos tend to get banned before I give their work the first glance.

[Kiweevil]

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[skicoak]

As someone who has been directly told by folks that they avoid reading our group's book because of me...
I have a bit of different thought process about it than the majority here.

I mean it would be ideal if everyone likes you, as a individual, but I think the inverse of the topic is a distinctly worse situation...having people ONLY read your work because they like you, not your work. That'd be horrible.

[vothnthorvaldson]

Good, I feel less bad about not reading then As I like you but have no specific attraction toward the style of your group's comic.
However I'm sure I'd find something in it for me. It's just a problem of limited time and concentration.

[skicoak]

Good, I feel less bad about not reading then As I like you but have no specific attraction toward the style of your group's comic. However I'm sure I'd find something in it for me. It's just a problem of limited time and concentration.

Ha! All of which I find super valid!

I'm currently reading /following hundreds of comics over 4 sites... You best believe I have a reason for following each of them. If that thing/reason changes...I will drop a title like a Swedish DJ drops the bass at an EM concert.

Nobody got time to read things only because I LIKE someone.

[nathanKmcwilliams]

I don't usually care. I separate art from artist. Which is something I learned from the music I listen to. I don't follow band members. I follow their creation and talent in application.

As for comics...it's the same. Unless the author has specifically and personally caused me grief, I don't care. If I like the work, I like the work. But again. I don't follow people, and I also don't expect people to follow me, either.

[thedude3445]

Dude, there were SO MANY creative people, especially in Hollywood, who in the post-2016 era just would not shut up about talking about politics, to the detriment of their actual work. I'm very politically engaged so I understand, but some people just spent the last four years nonstop talking about a certain you-know-who, and not in a particularly intelligent way either. Regardless of what opinions they had, it did turn me off some creators' work a bit, especially higher-profile authors.

[thedude3445]

lol I haven't been on that site in a long time, but depending on the genre I think I know who you're talking about lol. Wattpad, back when there was a forum, generally had a nice community, but there were a few folks that were very rude and also very vocal.

[Daisy]

Oh, wow. I'm surprised. I never heard of other people feeling iffy with their personality before. They're usually praised despite the obvious unlikeable attitude being presented and all that. It sucks as well, my friend and basically everyone else in that side of Wattpad see this author as some sort of standard when writing the genre to be honest.

The forum was one of the highlights of my time there as well. I can still remember the time where you have to keep reloading the page in order for the new replies to appear. When I explored the forum after leaving the website years ago, and this was before the forum were removed, I recognized some people still talking to each other in threads I used to go. It sucks that it's gone now.

[NickRowler]

I don’t mind people mentioning politics, however the issue with this person was they had a very extreme view on everything and made political comics based on very little understanding of political issues. Even their gag comic shifted from a silly slice of life to being rants at companies over character design.

[Iris-Grimoire]

Oh god I remember dropping someone who'd do just that on Twitter. They were right, but it was every day QRTing someone to go "how dare you, insult insult insult, that's wrong", or vagueposting in really obvious ways that started to feel like gossiping. As good as the art is, if it's tiring to look at their account what I'm even doing following them, really? And eventually just dropped them.

[BitterBadger]

When a particular artist in Tapas used to create forum threads complaining how their "deep" and "nuanced" comic about a teenage girl had only a few hundred subs compared to some "hack" korean or "progressive" comics that had a few thousand. It was the Dunning-kruger effect in action.

Oh, and another artist who took my leaving and coming back to Tapastic personally for some stupid reason. Talk about an inflated ego. Get over yourself, girl.

[aqua03]

I usually don't unless I have a personal beef with them, they've done something truly egregious, or I just find them insufferable in some way, shape, or form. (Like bragging about how great their stuff is when it's not super up to snuff if that makes sense.)

Mostly, I try to accept that people are both flawed and also have unique personalities and interests and sometimes people just don't click with you even if they've done nothing wrong in particular.

At least, that's how I've always viewed it anyways....

[thedude3445]

Right, that's what I mean too. Very strong opinions, but not a very depthy view of those opinions, and then that shallow stuff takes over everything and then the creator only ever makes stuff that feels like rants from then on. It's happened to quite a number of people over the past few years (though I bet you it will completely disappear in a few months once there isn't an "easy reason" to have all those strong opinions... even if it's too late for them to reverse their public perception).

[indagold]

You'd have to like do something pretty egregious for me to hate a comic enough, like kicking puppies or something. If I drop a comic based on the person's mundane drama, it gotta be a pretty boring comic to begin with that it's not worth putting energy into. I can ignore internet flamewars the author makes if the comic is good enough.