How much of your comic's following are reader only and creators?

[Bokyongyo]

It’s more so a logical guess based on the subscribers information.

You can see who is subscribed to your series and usually readers only don’t have their own created series while creators do. So it’s easy to know who is who

[WLHcomics]

I have mostly creators following my comic so I'd say 90% creator and 10% reader.

[IndigoShirtProd]

Most of the people following the comic, like around 80% i think, are reader only. But the people liking and leaving comments are mainly creators.

[pilot-obvious]

I think probably around 90% are readers only, but I would say 90% of people who actively engage with it (comment/like/share) are creators.

[surenlicious]

I am at about 70% creators and 30% readers. I love how these readers are also supportive of my novel.

[SleepingPoppy]

I think 85-90% is reader only for mine.

If most of your subs come from promoting in the forum and not discovery on the app, you end up with a higher percentage of creator-subs. The forum is, like, 99% other creators. (But all interaction on ones story is good interaction algorithm wise, of course)

[Bokyongyo]

Still trying to increase more of my reader only part of my following as well but I think that’s mostly comic from views that just aren’t liking or subbing which readers tend to do

[kaetana]

I looked at the first two pages of my subscribers list to see the average numbers on this, I'm around 80% readers/20% creators. Of course, if I did that check specifically for my more regular commenters, that would definitely skew more heavily towards fellow creators.

[Phantomlight]

Mine is 85% readers and 15% creators. And I think it's more creators that engage with my comic in terms of comments, there are readers who comment but creators are a higher percentage, and I think it's split down the middle or a little more creators that engage by also/only liking. I appreciate all my following though! But this was interesting to see. I think it all depends but it was interesting to see how many people kind of have the same experience like @pilot-obvious, @kaetana, @IndigoShirtProd have a similar experience as me.

[rajillustration]

No idea the percentage, but I would say most of my commenters are people from this forum, but as far as subs go, people off of the forum. No idea who's reading and who's not, we don't really have access to that info.

[Heartcompass]

Across all series, the number goes about 70 % readers and 30% other creators. Naturally, creators tend to interact a lot more than readers, but it seems to be a rather common theme here...

[allenT]

The 75 subscribers on my main series: only 14 of them don't have their 'series'. So mine has about 80% creators.

[Iris-Grimoire]

By numbers alone it's probably still mostly readers, but creators are the ones that interact the most. No surprise though, if you want to get comments you also need to give them and be engaged with the community!

[thel3tterm]

After taking a look, it seems that non-creators make up about 40% of my following, which makes sense considering that when I first started out I did all of my promotion here on the forums. Non-creator followers have been growing more significantly than creator followers though, and I think after about a year or so they'll make up the majority of my following.

As others have noted, creator engagement is much higher than reader engagement with my series. I would say 90% of my likes and comments come from readers (which I really appreciate.)

[Legendofgenii]

Mostly reader only, but nearly all my comments are from fellow creators.

[Bokyongyo]

How long into your comics lifespan did you you realize your more (reader only) following was growing?

[thel3tterm]

Hey! I've been running my comic for a few months now and a couple factors came into play with that.

I started my comic in late May of last year.
First, I was very lucky and received a community pick in October, which gave me a huge boost in followers, almost all of which were non-creators.
Second, due to pretty good engagement from readers (most of which are creators), I've also been lucky enough to make it to the popular sci-fi section, which helps significantly in attracting new readers as well. All of this has taken some time though, but I would say within the last few months is when its really started to take off with new reader-only followers.

I also think (or at least like to think) part of it has to do with my more recent artwork looking better than some of my earliest pages, which might help if new readers think to check the most recent page and realize that the art is improving.

[TheGentleArtist]

After looking through the stats, and not remembering the formula on how to get percentages XD, I say that my following is creator-majority. The numbers of readers in my comic's following is just two; as @SleepingPoppy mentioned about promoting on the forums garnering more creator based subs, I garnered more creator based subs than reader based subs after promoting a lot on the forums even though I also promoted my comic outside the forums.

[mrtoontastic]

I think there's a bit more of subscribers that are actual creators, with a fair some being actual readers.

[Rocksteady_Comics]

It’s roughly 70-30 % creators to subscribers here on Tapas. No idea what the ratio is on Webtoons.