How strict is webtoons?

[Legendarylankman13]

I am going all out with the violence and language. However I am not sure how strict they are with the sexual stuff. Mark it as mature if you are worried about those things. Tell your vision as you intend it to be.

[Nen]

They will literally take a chapter down in the middle of your comic, even if it's marked mature if it's unfit for advertising. BTW it could be late so you'll be like 30 chaps in and then suddenly chapter 13 is unavailable and you can't replace it. You'll need to upload it again as new

[DarkChibiShadow]

Had this exact thing happen to me, lol.

[Kuma]

My girlfriend does the art for a Webtoon and I've seen her suffer under the yolk of unfairly enforced rules more than once.

[doublemelon]

Late deletion? God that's the worst. Sounds like some random folk reported it and Webtoon takes it down immediately just because.

[Kaydreamer]

They shouldn't have an issue with a clothed butt. It's nudity they get excessively censorious about.

[FafasMcMelt]

I can honestly say they decide what to ban on a coin flip.

Both my series are very much mature rated and one of them got banned because it features a half naked woman. So far so good, their mature tag isn't worth shit, but ok. The thing is, my other series has been up on their site for nearly three months now. It has explicit gore, nudity and a straight up sex scene.

Wouldn't recommend putting spicy stuff up there if I were held at gunpoint.

[Macarenaoftime]

Is webtoon more strict on nudity or in gore?

[FafasMcMelt]

neither if you get lucky, both if you don't

[Macarenaoftime]

WELP, what a wonderful time to do things in the horror genre.

I´ll have to delete a panel, so luckily it's not a big deal.

Thanks either way!

[SleepingPoppy]

Webtoons is weird about this stuff, but a clothed butt should be okay. Maybe be wary if the cloth is so tight as to be painted on.

For my part I had a page pulled for implied sex. As in absolutely nothing happening on camera, but the implication of some kind of sexual activity was there. I thought that was way to strict, but I did eventually modify enough to get the page put back up.

[BlairFujin]

Marking series as mature doesn't really help, you still need to cover all the butts, cut panels in half and zoom in so much that you can barely make out what's going on (ok, let's check if my last sex scene hasn't been removed... ok, no pages missing)
As for other not as opposed to nudity platforms - globalcomix has similair stance as tapas (website, not app) and you can go fully uncensored on flowfo, just mark your comic as nsfw

[DarkChibiShadow]

Oh, I wasn't trying to claim that marking mature meant you had to censor less, sorry if my comment came off that way. Trust me, I def know how Webtoons fucking sucks about this, haha.

[dominioncomix]

Wow, that’s a bummer. I was hoping to post some horror comics there, but if they’re strict/only loosely enforce their censorship on gore too, that sounds like it’s too risky

[ghostmaya]

they will delete the chapter if creators don't follow the community guidelines, like youtube~ Well because you get paid from ads like google and other 3rd party~ also I sometimes don't understand the guideline as well, there are popular who don't follow the rules and yet the episode was still there~ mine was deleted because of the just a blood~ If you're curious what's the blood panel, here it is~

and i find it ridiculous because there's some other series (most are popular series) that is very gore than mine~ like stabbing knife in the eye, cut off finger, and etc~

[ghostmaya]

yup~ they delete episode that is 3 years ago~ like mine, because I post a real image of my printer scanner just to say thank you to my fans who pledge me from patreon~

[lomcia]

I read guidelines, I know what it say, that is WHY it was so strange to me, specialy as u said, there are more popular comics with worse content than mine comic had. Well, happens.

[Nen]

I should say it's not Webtoon's fault, they're having to do their best to comply with the several (mostly) American laws that make them responsible for the type of content you output if they don't take it down. And yeah they let featured creators get away with it, because they have control over them. They can stop a featured creator to not post something line crossing, they can't stop us, so all they can do is hit with stick when they feel it's necessary.

This is another argument why you should never center your content anywhere and have multiple avenues for readers to engage with your work. Platforms are a means to an end and they have to cover their backs and we're not their friends. While there's nothing wrong with wanting them to act fairly, when they act like this we should just take note of their actions and continue to use them to pump traffic our way.

[GloamingCat]

Why I don't understand is... why doesn't this happen to Tapas too? Tapas has to comply to the same laws as them, they also depend on ads, they are also on the Apple Store. All the excuses I see are also valid for Tapas, yet the censorship on WT is WAY worse. Just why?

[bakasama25]

Maybe because LINE Webtoons standards are in sync with Naver Webtoons'. I recall Naver's target demographic is maybe 13 and above. Tapas' target audience is older teens and young adults.