How Long Did It Take You To Gain A Significant Following...Or Not

@Kittosaurus Kittosaurus
Wed, 19 Jun 2019 16:48:08 +0000

@Kittosaurus wrote:

It really depends what you define as "made it"

I am nearing in on a year of making my first comic and here is my experience:

Webtoon
I started posting on Webtoons first (during the big contest - August 2018) and I don't even remember how long it took me to break 100 subs. I had a slow upward growth until... this May I was featured on the front page and out of nowhere I was above 1000 subs! I honestly had no idea how to react! I've been loosing subs since I went off the front page ( about 1-2 per episode ) - but trying to not let that get me down.

Tapas
I started posting on Tapas at the very end of September and was immediately picked for the staff picks, so I hit 250 subscribers within a month of being on the site. After that I experienced slow growth similar to Webtoons, but since then I was lucky enough to be picked as one of the creators to participate in the Easter Egg hunt and also been on another spotlight list ( creators we love ), so I have seen accelerated growth during those periods. I now sit at about 455 subs on Tapas.

I don't have a significant social media following about 50-250 followers depending on the platform (instagram, twitter, facebook and twitch), and I am not very good at keeping those platforms updated...