How does it feel when you reach a lot of subscribers?

[bmacbride]

It's cool but a little intimidating! I feel like my following on Tapastic came out of nowhere suddenly, and I also feel like my comic has barely gotten started/is lacking in everything so far, but I still have a lot more subscribers than I would have anticipated. I think, though, that my NSFW disclaimer probably has a lot to do with it, and also you can't consider every subscriber to be a reader. I have a little over 500 subscribers, but I would say that perhaps 100 of them or less have actually read the comic. People (including myself) tend to impulse-subscribe, meaning they see a comic that looks somewhat interesting and they hit subscribe to "save it for later" and then either forget about it or put off reading it. It still means that someone thinks your comic looks good, though!

[UzukiCheverie]

It feels pretty good u w u In my case, Time Gate is something I've been working on coming 10 years now, and it's been in many forms from novel to gag comic, so now that I'm finally able to bring it to the world the way it was meant to - a manga - it's really awesome to see that people like it u w u <3

[Spinester]

I imagine it feeling like one of those glorious Rocky training montages. At least I hope it's like that. I'll let you know if I ever get there.

[winglesscomic]

Problem I have recently! Some people didn't like gore in my comic, and they are like, "why is there gore? I don't like it!"

I had thought, oh my god. People don't like that. Should I get rid of it? Should I change it? I was about to go rewrite my whole damn story till I stopped myself and said NO! Gore is something I like and it's the product of my plot elements! Why do I have to stop doing something I like to please a few small readers? What involvement do they have in MY story so as to change something important? So to them I say... sorry, then, do not read my comic.

[anemonelost]

I agree with everything you say here. As someone who is new to comics and runs their own website as well, it's really refreshing to work in an environment where even if I'm just starting out (and definitely don't yet have a huge amount of subscribers), people are extremely encouraging and generous with likes and comments. This kind of feedback may not seem like a big deal, but when you put your heart and soul into something, it feels awesome when someone lets you know they like it.

[feyuca]

It feels great, but does it ultimately fill the emptiness inside? No.

Just kidding. It's really nice to see people engage with your work. But there's always another higher bar you start aiming for one you've reached the previous one. And so the journey continues.

[bmacbride]

My philosophy is basically that no matter what I do, there's gonna be tons of people as depraved as me who will still read my comic lol.

[crabman21]

Still waiting on my, "OOOOOOOH YEEEEEAY!!!" moment.

[getsuart]

@AnnaLandin Exactly. Ans it happens to not like a character that will be developped (I have a problems with the lolis and kawai girls in RPG, for example). But they have their developpment part, and everything is okay. you really can't satisfy anyone !

@winglesscomic It's strange, because the gore is something important in your comic. I imagine that some of your readers were waiting your story to be in correlation with the style, so it is surprising, but fun at the same time ! (I'm not a fan of gore at all and I like your story, so... we can get over it!)
You can still pay attention to those comments, but it's your story, so... do how you feel it

[kambreapratt]

I think "a lot " is subjective. To some people "a lot" is 50 to others it is is 500. I think we do okay. We just keep posting and doing our best.

I do love it when we get new subscribers though. It is exciting to know people are reading what we put out there. I like that the numbers are clearly posted too. On our main site, it is busier, but I really love being able to see the subscribers number. If we get new ones it pushes me to want to do more. We get some regular commentors too. They are too funny sometimes. It makes me smile.

[purrlpankras]

I have no idea but it must feel godly

[L4213]

you fee like a GOD!!

er... not really, honestly nothing really has changed when i reached my 1k sub mark (since from then on out you just want to reach a higher goal). but especially because the people i already had commented a lot already~ and thats what i really love. the fact that i get to interact with the people who read my comics just motivates me to keep updating daily since i feel like im sharing a story or a joke to a lot of interested people!

from the simple "nice work" to them making jokes that are funnier than the comic i put up~ sometimes i get new comic ideas from the comments people put up! ^_^

i think the bottom line is, i just get more jovial and motivated to know that more people took the effort to follow my works~ and that i get to share my stories to more people around the net.

[ratique]

holy crap, what if i mess up? What if they don't like how the plot develops.

That one is so hard to deal with. I know I lost 1 subscriber but gained 60 on my first couple episodes - but instead of celebrating the 60 you always wonder what you did to scare off the single one. I have to make a conscious decision to stop thinking about it.

[ratique]

To circumvent that issue I posted a warning at the beginning of my comic, followed by a particularly brutal scene. To weed out the weak, muahahaha!

No, but in all honesty: I am surprised about how squeamish people can be, since I grew up with people who could not care less about blood and gore. But for every reader that did not seem happy about it, there was always another who was excited for the more grown up approach of the story.

So I am glad that you chose to stick to the original direction of your comic. It will be for the best.

[fanyart]

um...

I feel somewhat guilty because I got 3K subscribers in two nights (after two particular episodes) and don't think I really deserved it in terms of my history on this site. I mean, there are people here struggling for years that don't get those 3K after all the time.

At the same time I realize that with this I could become the bridge for people not-yet-so-popular. I have been trying to come up with a good way of ads exchange between creators. I asked about it in the uservoice but it has not been answered yet.

I feel scared because I'm normally a pretty quiet person and so much interaction is adrenaline, though it gives the feeling of satisfaction even to me Also I haven't had very good experience with jealous people and worry that some might eventually crop up, though I feel safe here on Tapastic.

Lastly, the pressure! The readers are waiting for new stuff and although my comic has somewhere written "updated randomly", I feel bad because now I have a month of all exams and excursions one after another and probably won't be able to draw something for them :/

[rosette]

wow! you're such a good guy. caring to others ^_^

[mmidori31]

I'll make it short and straightforward.
IT'S EXHILARATING!!!

[dlalas1]

I went for a really, really long time updating on my own site with barely anyone commenting and to be honest I don't know how I got through that because it was very draining (I'm glad I stuck it out because my art improved tons).

After a bit of a learning curve on Tapastic I started to get actual comments and interaction on my comics and it felt really great because for the first time in my life I knew people were looking at my work and were enjoying it. I really appreciate all my subscribers, they're awesome.

[nocuddletime]

I don't know... YET!

[goenn]

I want to hug each and every one of my subscribers!! ALL OF THEM