Right i'm not debating if what they are doing is art. I never claim they are or not art. In the end, everything could be called art.
My main point is that they are flooding webtoons with something that aren't comics. What that site is intented for. There's plenty of sites for posting photos of food.
Let's look at that.
"Juxtapose" = to place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
If i understand correctly, Scott McCloud is here refferencing to a sequence of panels, right? That's what comics do. These? They don't have panels. They are just one picture. No images juxtapose, no message, no story, nothing.
Ask Scott McCloud or any other comic expert if one singular photo, without text or anything constitute a comic. That's like saying any photo ever or any painting by itself = a comic. Like say, is the Mona Lisa a comic? or a photo of food by itself a comic? (Again, they do nothing to put it in comic format, no panels, no text, no variation, no sequence of images, just one photo).
"When does effort equate to anything? Would you really suggest that as a benchmark? What if Tapas instituted an "Effort Bar" on Monday and start deleting strips it decided didn't meet it's standards for effort?
I'm not saying effort as in quality. I'm saying effort as in doing something different per episode? Even something like say stick figure comics at least try to vary text or dialogue.
No effort = uploading a image you may or may not stole and then post it, without changing anything. Then post the same image every day and call it a comic.
For example, you yourself have a comic, right? Now tell me, you do more than just upload the same thing over and over? You have to think of what to write or what images to put, right? And put it in some order? That's effort. Regardless of quality, you try to deliver something different per episode? And because of the process, you may not be able to upload every day, correct?
Now imagine someone just skips all those steps: the writing, the composition, the sketchs, the lineart, the panels, etc. Just took a photo or stole a image, then post that one photo and that's it. Then the next day, they upload the same photo, rinse and repeat. That's a comic?
Unlike with traditional art in the old days, now the internet give you plenty of sites for posting different stuff. You know what place people post photos of food daily? instagram or facebook. Webtoons is for comics, and i personally, don't see how a single photo they upload every day, without panels, text, story, etc can be called a comic.